Emerging Leaders

The CAAF Emerging Leaders Program builds capacity in both leadership and critical thinking for emerging leaders in the audit community and provides participants with tools and opportunities for them to grow as leaders. It combines both personal leadership discovery and growth with creativity and problem solving.

Through a series of lectures, exercises, reflection, leadership assessment, guest speakers and challenge projects, this course allows participants to explore and develop their innate leadership qualities.

Participants will work on “Audit Leadership Challenges” – practical projects that are developed by the participants throughout the course. The topics of these challenges are determined collaboratively at the start of the course. Examples of possible challenge topics include:

• Leading audits in virtual teams
• Leadership that promotes wellness

Through their participation in the course, Emerging Leaders will:

• Participate in a five-day retreat-style course where they will learn from leading experts on topics such as:

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  • Transformational leadership;
  • Emerging trends impacting the future of the audit profession; and
  • Complex problem solving.
• Work on their Audit Leadership Challenge Projects with senior leaders from CAAF who will provide one-on-one and group mentoring;
• Take part in peer group sessions where they will be challenged on their ideas;
• Share their experience with the broader audit community.

Click here to view a sample agenda.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you, for all the time and effort that went into the training. I truly feel like it was a gift to be able to participate.”

“I thought it was a great combination of leadership training and networking with other performance auditors from across Canada. Having the challenge questions as a practical exercise is a great idea.”

“So many relevant leadership topics to reflect on and phenomenal guest speakers. It was also great to build connections with other legislative audit office staff across Canada.”

For more information or to express your interest in the course, please contact us at training@caaf-fcar.ca.