Following the overwhelming interest in the Spring 2026 Strategic Alliance webinar, “Not Perfect, but the Best,” the CCHL Research & Leadership Development team has decided to offer an advanced session to extend the discussion.
The original session provided an overview of the topic:
- The evolving leadership context: key issues and implications for leaders and staff;
- What we mean by Best of the Best (BOTB) leader behaviours: those that distinguish the most outstanding leaders, not only from bad managers, but from good, otherwise competent, ones;
- The predominant scarcity of guidance and evidence in the literature on the topic;
- The potential value, limitations, and applications of BOTB for leaders, teams, and organizations; and,
- An initial sample of BOTB leader behaviours, .
**It is not mandatory to have seen the original webinar to participate in the advanced event. To view the recording of the original, please contact Dr. Geerts at jgeerts@cchl-ccls.ca.
The Advanced Live Event: Details
The advanced live event will delve deeper into those BOTB behaviours with real-world examples and specific ways in which event participants might apply them to their own careers.
The event features an anonymous 4-minute pre-event survey and a highly interactive, hour-long webinar with time for questions at the end.
Advanced Live Event: Content
Informing the content will be:
- Insights and afterthoughts from those who viewed the original webinar, based on their own professional expertise and experience,
- Our ongoing international academic leadership research,
- Substantial rapid research input from hundreds of leaders in different sectors at all levels, and
- A dedicated literature review on the topic.
Who Should Attend
This session is open to those in all sectors and at all levels, from undergraduate students to CEOs and Board of Directors members, from academics and tenured professors to front-line practitioners.
What If You Can't Attend?
Even if you can't attend, registering and completing the pre-event survey ensures that you will automatically receive all event materials (the recording, slide deck, and other resources) and that your insights are included in our research through the survey.
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Jaason Geerts, PhD (Cambridge), is an internationally recognized leadership scholar, TEDx and keynote speaker, and executive educator.
He is the vice-president of research and leadership development at the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), an associate at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and an adjunct professor at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.
He has advised organizations globally, including the World Health Organization, International Hospital Federation, Yale University, and the NHS. His research, published in leading journals such as JAMA Network Open and BMJ, has been cited by the WHO and has been featured in The Globe and Mail, CTV, and CBC National News. He created a model of crisis leadership that underpins nearly $500,000 in CIHR-funded research.
Dr. Geerts is a program director and instructor at Telfer and the Schulich School of Business, and a Toronto Star Teacher of the Year nominee.
