Moura Quayle: The Importance of Designed Leadership

About this episode

Martha and Indira discuss the significance of designed leadership with Moura Quayle, a prominent figure in strategic design and urban systems.

In this episode Martha and Indira have a conversation with a woman leader who has demonstrated “nerve” throughout her entire life. Moura Quayle a renown strategic design scholar and urban systems designer. Moura has done it all—in both academia and government and community affairs. She has been an academic leader at UBC and has served in various leadership roles including Dean of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, the founding Director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affair...

People in this episode

Hosts: Martha Piper, Indira Samarasekera

Guest: Moura Quayle

Topics covered

• leadership
• design
• academia
• community affairs
• urban systems

Keywords

• leadership
• design
• Moura Quayle
• urban systems
• academia
• community affairs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UBC

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