Karl Moore is a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, in Montreal. He is also an associate fellow at Green Templeton College at Oxford University. He was the host of a long-running video series for The Globe and Mail in which he interviewed chief executive officers and business professors from the top universities in the world. His column, Rethinking Leadership, has been published atsince 2011.
Jenn Harper spent 12 years working in sales and marketing before embarking on her own business venture. In 2015, the Anishinaabe founder launched Cheekbone Beauty, a cosmetic brand that has been gaining buzz since appearing on the CBC show,. Today, Ms. Harper is carving the path for female leadership in the beauty world, and reimagining its products through an Indigenous worldview.Ojibwe woman from Northwest Angle 33, which is a northwestern Ontario Treaty 3 territory.
After having this dream, I read a hundred books on business entrepreneurship and about my Indigenous culture, the residential-school system and its impacts. It was a way for me to connect. I felt like I had the answer as to why my family felt dysfunctional.I’d been trying to get well for about eight years. I went into rehab in 2010 and then relapsed, before finally getting sober in 2014. That year, I readby Charles Duhigg.
These teachings are broken down into our core values, which are the three pillars of humility, love, respect. The idea of business is generally transactional, but we look at all transactions from the perspective of love, meaning that with everything we do, we never expect anyone to give us anything back. We’re doing it out of the concept of giving out love freely. Then, we incorporate the teachings into how we work as a team and how we communicate with each other.