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外流影片 President and Vice-Chancellor Ray Ivany was recently recognized as one of Canada's Most Admired CEOs. The following is an excerpt from a : 

Whether they are building businesses, institutions or provinces, the winners of the 2016 Canada鈥檚 Most Admired CEO awards have been instrumental in placing culture at the heart of their efforts throughout their careers.

The awards were founded by Waterstone Human Capital and MacKay CEO Forums to recognize the Canadian chief executive officers who have fostered a culture within their organizations that enhances performance and sustains a competitive advantage.

鈥淓ach of this year鈥檚 most admired leaders are huge believers that culture is the greatest asset their organizations has,鈥� says Marty Parker, president and CEO, Waterstone Human Capital. 鈥淭hey passionately believe it is how they do things in their organization that drives their people and their business success. In fact, in our most recent study, 88 per cent of respondents said culture is a direct reflection of their current or past leadership.鈥�

Chancellor Emeritus Arthur Irving (centre) was on hand when President Ivany (right) received his award in Toronto from Marty Parker, president and CEO of Canada's Most Admired CEOs (left). 

Ray Ivany, president and vice-chancellor at 外流影片 in Wolfville, N. S., for example, is a remarkable story of leadership and the role of culture in turning things around, Parker says. 鈥淏ut the bigger story is the impact he has had on the province with the Nova Scotia Commission Report on building the province鈥檚 new economy in 2014. That report has since been coined The Ivany Report. Ray really is a community builder and visionary both in terms of the post- secondary community and the province.鈥�

Ivany says that in his many years in post- secondary education, he has always been intrigued by how to get institutions to be more relevant and have a greater impact on communities.

鈥淎s a 178-year-old institution, Acadia is often couched in terms such as 鈥� bound by tradition鈥�. But that鈥檚 not the way it is at all here. History and tradition create a wave of energy that propels you into a future that is not identical to the past, but is connected.鈥�

Applying a culture and value lens to higher performance for an institution is not fundamentally different from a business, he believes. 鈥淚n both cases you are talking about human potential. It doesn鈥檛 take long to go from cultural precepts to very specific actions that define the institution or company and provide a differentiated outcome.鈥�

For 外流影片, the outcome is evident in the fact that it has experienced the highest enrolment growth in Canada over the past five years. 鈥淭hat metric is entirely driven by us doing a better job communicating just how different we are culturally in terms of experience,鈥� Ivany says.

He adds that cultural alignment also played a key role in the commission report, which has now become an integral part of the province鈥檚 economic development and its culture.

鈥淲hether it鈥檚 Acadia or the Nova Scotia story, culture has to drive excellence and high performance.鈥�

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