Alumni Spotlight: Terry Ross ’92 —The Value of Entrepreneurial Thinking

Terry Ross '92 is the Director, Strategic Centre Initiatives at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. In his role, Ross '92 oversees the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Centre for Corporate Sustainability. We spoke with Terry about his life after LCS, his work driving innovation and sustainability in Calgary and the value of entrepreneurial thinking. Tell us about your life after graduating from LCS? After graduation in '92, I attended Bishop’s University and studied psychology and philosophy. It was interesting enough, but I didn’t have a particular mission or vision about where my life was headed career-wise. Following that, I moved out to Alberta and started working in a variety of sales jobs, which were fantastic because they were tough. They toughened me up to the idea of putting myself out there, getting used to rejection, and thinking about being empathetic to the particular needs of someone that you’re talking to.…

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Thanksgiving and The Powerful Benefits of Gratitude

By LCS faculty member Libby Dalrymple, from her Chapel Address, October 7, 2020 I’d like to take a moment this morning to think about two words. The first word is Thanksgiving. It’s a two-part, compound word that implies action: Giving …..Thanks. That is what our upcoming holiday is all about - taking time in our lives to GIVE THANKS. It’s wonderful that we have a special holiday devoted to this concept but, as we all know, it’s important to give thanks more than once a year. Ideally, we try to do so daily. This brings me to the second word: Gratitude. In the field of Positive Psychology, there are psychologists who research many aspects of Gratitude, including a man named Bob Emmons. Even though it’s only one word, he talks about gratitude as being conceptually made up of two parts: “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are…

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Remote Learning: Traveling to Rome Without Leaving our Childhood Bedrooms

By Mikayla Stoodley '20 With a global pandemic on the rise, there came the dreaded reality that the world would be temporarily shutting down and with it all schools. As students, we returned to our childhood bedrooms to continue our learning, only this time, it would be done through a screen. Covid-19 has presented many challenges and the idea of completing the school year via our computers was a reality that many of us viewed from a place of fear and bitter indignation. Despite the unprecedented reality of remote learning, our Classical Civilizations class was soon presented with the incredible opportunity to explore a whole new environment through the digital education platform FutureLearn. As a group, we explored a world brought to life by none other than Mathew Nicholls, a Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and Senior Tutor at St John's College, University of Oxford. He is a specialist…

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