b"BUSINESS LEADERS AdvertorialTruth and Reconciliation in Business Mokakit - practice wisdom, apply your knowledge How the Truth and Reconciliation Committees Calls to Action and Indigenous influence is changing Canadas business landscape.There is change on the horizon of businessdisappeared.McIntyre explains that athrough an Indigenous lens. McIntyre in Canada. Change that is long overdue,business which seeks to operate nearthe need of which has been illuminatedIndigenous land, such as mines in northerngaps and encourage people to explore in the 2015 Truth and ReconciliationAlberta, or franchises looking to operateand uncover the exceptions; the areas of Commissions Calls to Action on Indigenous land, need to understandwise practices while also integrating best(CTA).In92 on Business and Call to Action how to better and more appropriatelypractice. Case by case, we arm students Reconciliation, the report calls onengage in Indigenous conversations. Theycorporate Canada to adopt the Unitedalso need to understand the exceptionswould work best in each situation.Nations Declaration on the Rights ofto traditional western business and Indigenous Peoples as a framework forgovernment rules or practices to avoidUniversity of Lethbridge alumna Rhonda . undesired consequences. Because someCrow (Mgt Cert '97, BMgt '99), is the among others, the need to: commit tobusinesses are unwilling to recognize aDhillon School of Business Indigenous meaningful consultation and informedshift in the Indigenous business territoryLearning & Program Coordinator and consent with Indigenous peoples; ensurethat theyre trying to grow roots in,Coordinator of the IGBM program. Crow, access to jobs, training and educationMcIntyre asserts, their businesses fail.who is Blackfoot and from the Blood underpinning sustainability of AboriginalTribe and the largest reserve in Canada, communities; and initiate programs tosays that students taking the IGBM educate and inform corporate Canada ofcourses are able to advise on Indigenous the issues and challenges that must bepractices and protocols, an important addressed to help realize reconciliationbetween the Indigenous and non- in the CTA. Our Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada.Indigenous students know how to handle meaningful consultations in the Indigenous The Dhillon School of Business at thecommunity, addressing barriers that University of Lethbridge has alreadyothers dont even know are there, Crow been working in this area for over threesays. Furthermore, students are taught by decades. Professor Don McIntyre, aa diverse group of experienced Indigenous member of the Wolf Clan from LakeIndigenous Governance and Businessbusiness and governance professionals Timiskaming First Nation, notes thatManagement (IGBM) from across Canada who are often currently working in the sectors theyre business and education has been at theshift in business. IGBM seeks to provideteaching about. insight into these exceptions for business the University of Lethbridge for over 30and government, provide a safe place toAs for the future of business and years. Weve been supporting Indigenousask questions which some may have beenreconciliation, McIntyre says that business business people since 1987. Long beforeafraid to ask, and where IGBM alumniis about certainty and in the case of the TRC, we recognized there was ancan be turned to for understanding inIndigenous businesses, it is essential to beterms of the complexities of workingspeaking one language that everyone can business was and where it needed to bewith, for, or as Indigenous businessesunderstand.This is why Reconciliation within an Indigenous context. and nations.The IGBM program, all ofis so essential. Whether you are part which is currently online and available toof an Aboriginal business, working in The outcome of the CTA suggest that ifstudents and community members alike,partnership with Indigenous nations or you want to work in business in Canadainform individuals of the complexities ofpart of a governance structure, to work today, your work is going to intersect withIndigenous exceptions. Courses includesome level of Indigenous interest.WhileCanadian Indigenous Negotiations,to communicate and work both the rules previously you could get away without aCanadian Indigenous Project Management,and the exceptions to those rules. This is certain level of mandatory knowledge inCanadian Indigenous Tax Issues andthe key to reconciliation.Indigenous business and governance,Indigenous Leadership and Management, today, McIntyre notes, that world hasa course that teaches strategic planning To learn more about the Indigenous Governance and Business Management program at the Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge, go to ulethbridge.ca/future-student/IGBMDSB-advertorial.indd 1 2020-10-16 2:10 PM"