David was the main and first person at Haskayne to help me champion the CSR-SD certificate program back in 2005. He would take me into the office and encourage me to think big, bold, and challenge me to continue to push on my passions. I remember the poster on the back of his office door covered in colourful fairies, flowers and vegetation. I knew his spirit was something different at the business school, and it made me love Haskayne even more for having such a unique soul, educator and leader in the fold. He was the first one to really introduce and engage me in First Nations teachings and engagement. He learned more about me and helped me identify my spirit animal, a salmon (always swimming upstream), that I actually used as the basic concept I explored with my MBA program applications 10 years later. Even as I came back to campus the odd time in recent years, if he spotted me from the fourth floor he would holler and quickly step his way down the stairs to give me a hug and dive straight into deep conversation and connection. Even as I write this now, just saying his name makes me smile…..there was no way you couldn’t in his presence even when he pushed and challenged you to go into areas of discomfort.
David was the main and first person at Haskayne to help me champion the CSR-SD certificate program back in 2005. He would take me into the office and encourage me to think big, bold, and challenge me to continue to push on my passions. I remember the poster on the back of his office door covered in colourful fairies, flowers and vegetation. I knew his spirit was something different at the business school, and it made me love Haskayne even more for having such a unique soul, educator and leader in the fold. He was the first one to really introduce and engage me in First Nations teachings and engagement. He learned more about me and helped me identify my spirit animal, a salmon (always swimming upstream), that I actually used as the basic concept I explored with my MBA program applications 10 years later. Even as I came back to campus the odd time in recent years, if he spotted me from the fourth floor he would holler and quickly step his way down the stairs to give me a hug and dive straight into deep conversation and connection. Even as I write this now, just saying his name makes me smile…..there was no way you couldn’t in his presence even when he pushed and challenged you to go into areas of discomfort.
