Happy New Year!

We at the Centre for Innovative Management wish you all a happy and successful 2010!

Make it your new year's resolution to become actively involved in your CIM community.  Share your first-hand AU MBA experiences at a public information session, join your local alumni chapter group, attend an alumni/student event, share your news through our newsletters ... there are many, many ways to connect!

This year's first Speakers Series Dinner will be held in Calgary on March 10. Stay tuned for more dates and locations as they are finalized!

Calgary Speakers Series Dinner

Ruth Kelly is the president and CEO of Venture Publishing Inc., and the publisher and editor-in-chief of Alberta Venture, Alberta’s only province-wide business magazine.  Through Alberta Venture, Ruth created and produces the annual list of Alberta’s Fastest Growing Companies, the Venture 100, the Best Workplaces list and Alberta’s Business Person of the Year Award.  Venture Publishing also produces contract magazines for Alberta Mental Health Board, Consulting Engineers of Alberta, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, Finning Canada, Merit Contractors and the Carpenters Union.  In September 2007, Venture launched Unlimited, the online business publication for the 20 to 35 year old emerging professional or entrepreneur.  In May of 2008, Venture purchased Alberta Oil, an energy trade publication.

Ruth has served on numerous volunteer boards and councils, and was recognized as a Global Woman of Vision in 1998, a YWCA Woman of Distinction in the Entrepreneur category in 2003 and in 2005 was selected as the Allard Chair of Business by the MacEwan School of Business.  The Canadian Women in Communications selected Ruth for their 2008 Woman of the Year award, making her the first Albertan to receive this national honour.  She is also the recipient of Alberta's Centennial Medal, and an honorary degree in business from NAIT in 2008.