Banff Centre offers a flexible leadership certificate designed to enhance leadership skills with new strategies, tools, and ideas, focused on building capacity to support community and organizational growth in the era of self-determination and economic development.
Participants earn the Certificate of Indigenous Leadership, Governance, and Management Excellence by successfully completing seven Indigenous Leadership programs, selecting one from each of the seven Wise Practices Elements.
2027/28 Updated Program Model
Identity and Culture
Leadership
- Leading Teams: Governance for Indigenous Councils and Boards
- Calling Our Spirits Home: Indigenous Women in Leadership
- Mountain Buffalo Warrior: Youth Leadership
- Dreaming Forward: Exploring Pathways to Child Welfare Jurisdiction
Strategic Vision and Planning
- Related-world Strategic Planning
- Project Management for Indigenous Organizations
Governance and Management
- Establishing Institutions of Indigenous Governance (late 2027/early 2028)
- Inherent Right to Indigenous Governance
Accountability and Stewardship
- Truth and Reconciliation through Right Relations
Performance Evaluation
- Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks
Collaborations, Partnerships, and External Relationships
- Negotiation Skills Training
- Business and Economic Development
Program Model Prior to 2027/28
Identity and Culture
- Wise Practices in Indigenous Leadership
- Indigenous Women in Leadership
Leadership
- Inherent Right to Indigenous Governance
Strategic Vision and Planning
- Braiding Strands: Related-world Strategic Planning
Good Governance and Management
- Establishing Institutions of Good Governance
Accountability and Stewardship
- Leading Teams: Good Governance for Councils and Boards
Performance Evaluation
- Project Management for Indigenous Organizations
- Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks
Collaborations, Partnerships, and External Relationships
- Negotiation Skills Training
- Indigenous Business and Economic Development