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SFU Beedie’s Indigenous Business Leadership EMBA weaves Indigenous teachings into contemporary business knowledge

Oct 4, 2022

Dennis Thomas’s dedication to his Nation started 15 years ago with working in economic development and managing Takaya Tours, an internationally recognized Indigenous tourism business. It was there that he connected with his cultural roots and, today, he is a cultural ambassador in his community who strives to embed his Nation’s culture in all areas of business to keep the ancestral knowledge alive and well. Thomas, whose ancestral name is Whonoak, is a member and […]

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Indigenous student weaves together traditional knowledge with business education

Jun 22, 2020

The Executive MBA in Indigenous Business Leadership (EMBA IBL) at SFU’s Beedie School of Business is designed to weave together executive business education with traditional Indigenous knowledge, and one student graduating from the program in 2020 has literally done just that. As a part of her final project, artist Angela George (qʷənat), who is from the Squamish Nation and lives and works at Tsleil-Waututh, created a weaving that represents complex models of governance in a […]

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SFU Beedie hosts Indigenous leadership courses

Nov 29, 2019

Leading figures in Indigenous business and politics gathered at the Segal Graduate School in October and November, 2019, for the Indigenous Leadership Series, hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. The series comprised two credit courses delivered in partnership with the University of Arizona, and two SFU executive courses. The credit courses were offered from October 18-20, covering Building Native Nations and Making Change Happen, and were taught by Stephen Cornell and Miriam […]

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