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Honouring spaces of belonging

Jul 4, 2024

A Coast Salish weaving is prominently displayed in the entrance hall of the Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver. The specially commissioned artwork was shared in ceremony May 2023, and welcomes the Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA (IBL EMBA) students and other visitors with the story of this place, beginning at a time long before the building that now houses Beedie School of Business stood here. In a creative fusion of tradition and […]

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Celebrating SFU Beedie IBL EMBA graduate Nyden Iron-Nighttraveller

Jun 10, 2024

  Nyden Iron-Nighttraveller will proudly add MBA to his list of accomplishments when the entrepreneur and father of four graduates from SFU Beedie’s Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA (IBL EMBA) program on June 12. Iron-Nighttraveller’s educational and professional journey has not been linear. The embodiment of perseverance, he completed his undergraduate degree in 2020 taking courses when and where he could, both in-person and online, and at two different universities, so he could study while […]

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Artist’s weaving honours spirit of Indigenous business program

Jun 5, 2023

As 30 graduands of the Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA (IBL EMBA) program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business prepare to receive their degrees on Wednesday (June 7), one alumnus has captured “the spirit and intent” of the program in a beautiful Coast Salish weaving in a collaborative project with the school. Master weaver Angela George (qʷənat) from the Squamish Nation, who graduated in 2020, consulted with IBL EMBA alumni for her piece, which tells the story […]

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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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Stepping stones: SFU’s Indigenous Business Leadership EMBA brings Indigenous ways of learning into the business world

Aug 2, 2022

The importance of having Indigenous role models—both for herself and her daughter—is what drew Joanne Stone-Campbell to SFU Beedie’s Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA (IBL EMBA) program. Having had negative experiences throughout her school years, she never thought she would have the positive experience that she did in SFU Beedie’s IBL EMBA program—let alone learn from actual Indigenous professors. Stone-Campbell, who is Anishinaabe, grew up on in an isolated First Nations community in northern Ontario […]

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