Industry Operations Leadership & Management
PROGRAM STREAM
Learn about the courses offered under the Industry Operations Leadership & Management Program Stream.
Industry Operations Leadership & Management
Develop the integral leadership, managerial and operational skills needed to lead, transition and scale industry business units.
McMaster’s Industry Operations Leadership and Management program is a hands-on, applied learning experience. Each course in the program is designed to enable industry business leaders to develop, deploy and execute high-performance industry teams capable of utilizing innovation, flexibility, and bottom-up intent-based execution to sustainably scale industry operations.
Our Industry Experts
Meet the speakers, mentors and panelists on the Industry Operations Leadership & Management Program.
DAIR | McMaster Speaker Series
5 Speaker Events | 1 Mentorship Event | Nov 23 - Mar 24
1-1.5hr Each | Live | Virtual | Free
Downsview Aerospace Innovation & Research (DAIR) & McMaster University have collaborated to craft a monthly speaker series where leaders in industry will be able to learn directly from senior leaders world-wide on prevalent topics within the aerospace sector.
DAIR | McMaster Student Aerospace Speaker Series
4 Speaker Panellist Events | 07 Feb 24 - 28 Feb 24
1-1.5hr Each | Live | Virtual | Free
Downsview Aerospace Innovation & Research (DAIR) & McMaster University have collaborated to craft a weekly speaker series where students seeking entry into the Canadian Aerospace sector will be able to learn directly from senior leaders, both within Canada and worldwide, on prevalent topics in the aerospace sector.
IOLM Program Courses
One Day | Live | Virtual
Focused on enabling levels 1 - 3 (frontline team leaders, managers, supervisors, senior managers and directors) with the essential operations leadership, execution and management skills to align, direct and maneuver their industry business unit teams.
Leading Digital Transformation
One Day | Live | Virtual
Focused on enabling leaders to execute a digital transformation strategy within their own business units. Participants will gain insight into the challenges, opportunities & benefits of business unit digital transformation, focusing on leadership & execution.
Who Should Attend?
Participants with relevant work/technical/leadership experience looking to obtain an industry leadership university credential.
Program Lead
Industry Operations Leadership & Management
PROGRAM LEAD
Ashan Corea
McMaster University
W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology
Certificates of Completion Professional Programs
IOLM Program Participant Testimonials
What participants are saying
Leonardo Guerrero
Plant Manager
Tesla
Industry Operations Leadership Fundamentals
The Industry Operations Leadership Fundamentals Course provides a very detail introduction of what is Industry 4.0 which is unclear for many of us.It also introduces the Strong Link Archetype which provides a very specific and practical model of leadership intended to learn and develop tools, techniques and leadership styles for the Industry 4.0 environment combined with specific methodologies or techniques to enable leaders with powerful tools for project and resources management.
Joe Figliomeni
Director of Business Operations
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
Industry Tactical Planning & Execution
The Industry Tactical Planning & Execution Course is a great introductory course for Supervisors and Managers who are looking to develop high performance teams by improving communication, driving clear accountability across their team members, while achieving the strategic goals of the organization. The course provides tried and tested strategies to improve communications and improve efficiencies while ensuring quality and safety are never compromised. If you are looking to take your leadership skills to the next level, this course is for you.
Thanuja Rukman
Manager
Department of National Defence
Industry Operations Leadership Fundamentals
The MacMaster IOLF had a great selection of very knowledgeable presenters from a variety of fields who were able to discuss the impacts of key theories in practice based on their experience. I was particularly impressed with the consideration McMaster had in bringing in a speaker to address mental health within the context of managing. It is a topic often cited as important, but rarely are managers provided tools to deal address it.
Andrew Liberman
Sargeant
Department of National Defence
Industry Tactical Planning & Execution
I found the Industry Tactical Planning and Execution course innovative, interesting and exciting. Ashan and the team undertook the difficult challenge of redefining and articulating the age-old philosophical problem of good leadership practices, and brought them into the 21st century.
I feel they hit the nail on the head. Infusing tried and tested intent-based bottom-up execution techniques into the rapidly evolving business world, the course delivered tools, techniques and resources to enable anyone, to better themself in the tradecraft of management and leadership. Personally, I’ve since delved into the Intent Based Execution principles, utilizing the attributes of high performance teams to reduce the decision action cycle. These adjustments have made my team more effective and efficient, driving bottom up innovation while remaining on task, on schedule and on budget.
Maedeh Pourmajidian
Post-doctoral fellow
McMaster University
Industry Operations Leadership Fundamentals
IOLF Course is a professional certificiate course from McMaster University, it is my pleasure to attend it to help me to develop personal leadership skills and gain valuable insight from industry leaders. It provides incredible opportunities to connect leaders across industry, share insights, drive operational solutions, and strengthen leadership and execution skills.
During the course, I enjoyed its mentorship program, which each participant conduct a 360 self-assessment, derive key observations and deductions culminating with a tailored leadership development plan to drive a performance improvement; this really helped me to reevaluate my leadership and management skills in current work environment, develop a plan to be a tactical industry leader. I highly recommend this course.
Tommy Liu
Senior Manager
C.A.M.H
Industry Operations Leadership Fundamentals
IOLF Course is a professional certificiate course from McMaster University, it is my pleasure to attend it to help me to develop personal leadership skills and gain valuable insight from industry leaders. It provides incredible opportunities to connect leaders across industry, share insights, drive operational solutions, and strengthen leadership and execution skills.
During the course, I enjoyed its mentorship program, which each participant conduct a 360 self-assessment, derive key observations and deductions culminating with a tailored leadership development plan to drive a performance improvement; this really helped me to reevaluate my leadership and management skills in current work environment, develop a plan to be a tactical industry leader. I highly recommend this course.