Stan Remple PhD

Director and Professor of Leadership (MAL - TWU), President (SKR Management Consulting)

Department: School of Graduate Studies, MALeadership

Area of Expertise: Middle to executive public management, leadership, and broad-based consulting and training within a diversity or regional and provincial social service programs, addictions programs and mental health services, services to persons with disabilities, comprehensive health care systems, aboriginal affairs, seniors programs in Alberta and British Columbia. Specializes in accountability, value for money, organization effectiveness, and leading strategic change for results. Teaching focuses on how servant leadership practices enhance organization performance and impacts.

Research: In addition to directing the MAL program, Dr. Remple teaches courses in strategic leadership and results-based leadership, is a major research project advisor, and is researching issues related to the development of healthy leadership-based organization culture.

Education: B.A. in Psychology (Sir Wilfred Laurier), MSW in Individual and Family Therapy (Carleton), M.P.H. in Health Administration (North Carolina, Chapel Hill), M.H.A. Post-Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Administration (North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Ph.D. in Community Systems Planning and Development (Pennsylvania State).

Notable Accomplishments and Experiences

Received the Governor General Commemorative Medal in 1993; recipient of the TWU Christian Leader award in 1997; established a provincial home service for children with disabilities; leader in income support reform initiatives; introduction of management/leadership accountability and performance measurement frameworks in the public sector; administrative devolution of initial child welfare services within a First nations community. Has served on numerous nonprofit, church, and business boards; retired from the public sector and a number of years as Assistant Deputy Minister in British Columbia and Deputy Minister of Family and social Services in Alberta; more than ten years as a senior management consultant; and teaching in the MAL program for more then seven years. Led the establishment of a MAL program and leadership institute at the Pan Africa Christian University in Kenya, and is currently working with a China-based organization to deliver the MAL program in China sometime in 2009.