Dr. Margaret McKee receiving the Excellence for Leadership in Service award from Liz Collier, Chair of the PRME North America Chapter and Mette Morsing, Head of PRME.
The Sobey School is pleased to announce that Associate Dean of Undergraduate and Professional Graduate Programs, Dr. Margaret McKee, has won a Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) North America Award of Excellence for Leadership in Service. The PRME is a United Nations-supported initiative that engages with business and management schools to ensure future leaders are provided with the skills necessary to balance economic and sustainability goals. With over 800 signatories worldwide, PRME has become the largest organized relationship between the United Nations and management-related higher education institutions.
Dr. Margaret McKee
The PRME Awards for Excellence are intended to recognize superior accomplishments, to provide models of excellence for fellow faculty, and to encourage all faculty to continue to perform, improve, and advance their teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service following the United Nation’s PRME Principles. Dr. McKee is recognized for her exceptional commitment to integrating the Principles of Responsible Management Education throughout the life of the Sobey School of Business and her leadership contributions within other organizations, especially the PRME North America Chapter and Champions.
“It is difficult to summarize the magnitude of the impact that Dr. McKee has had on the Sobey School of Business and its stakeholders in its pursuit to meaningfully embed ethics, social responsibility and sustainability in the values, purpose, and activities of the school,” says Dean Harjeet Bhabra. “Her passion and commitment, and her ability to collaborate with administrators, faculty, and staff to integrate PRME Principles in the curriculum and other initiatives in the school have been critical to our success in this area.”
Dr. McKee has brought about many specific changes in the School, including :
Specific reference to sustainability in the School’s mission statement and the establishment of ethical and social responsibility as a transversal weave through Elevating Impact, the School’s Strategic Plan (2020-2025)
The Faculty Council’s unanimous support for becoming a PRME signatory in 2014 and pursuing Champion status in 2020
Maintaining our standing on the Corporate Knights Global Green MBA Ranking for nearly 10 years
Encouraging the research advancement committee to institute the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for reporting on research bi-annually
The introduction of an annual Responsible Leadership Day in 2019
“Dr. McKee is an advocate, champion, and leader of PRME principles and Sustainable Development Goals in the Sobey School, university, and wider community,” says Jane Mulatz, Director of Strategy and Accreditations at the Sobey School of Business. “She has brought the Sobey School of Business to its current position where the significant integration of the SDGs across our strategy and programming has elevated our national standing, our international profile, and most importantly our societal impact. Her dedication has been the single most important factor in the Sobey School’s transformation.”
Please join us in congratulating Dr. McKee on this well-earned honour!