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Dr. Nouman Ashraf will speak at St. Â鶹´«Ã½ University as part of a STU Social Enterprise Hub event. The lecture is open to the public and will take place on May 12 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM in the Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall.

In his lecture, Enabling Collective Impact through a Behavioral Empathy Lens, Ashraf will explore the growing emphasis on collective impact and the need to reconnect societal aspiration, culture, and empathy. The interactive keynote will invite participants to share collective strategies for deepening impact across organizations and communities.

Nouman Ashraf is the Academic Director, FT & One-Year MBA Program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream within the Organizational Behavior area. He possesses a broad range of professional, academic and research interests, with a specialized focus on enabling inclusive and innovative practices within teams, organizations and boards.  

For the last decade and a half, he has held progressively senior roles at the University of Toronto, including most recently as the Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion the Rotman School of Management. He is a recognized thought leader in governance and has taught thousands of directors in the national Rotman program on Not-for-Profit Governance in partnership with the Institute for Corporate Directors since its inception in 2007.  

He is a Fellow at Trinity College within the University of Toronto and a Special Advisor for Pedagogy at the University of Toronto School of Cities, where he is the founder and Academic Director of the Leading Social Justice Collective. An award-winning faculty member, Nouman teaches Emancipatory Leadership within the Executive MBA as well as the Executive MBA Program, Leading Social Innovation within the MBA program, Managing People in the Context of Globalization and Leading Across Differences within the Rotman Commerce Program.