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Top You need three things to lead successfully, says Dr. Gary Faulkner, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.): a good boss, good people to work with, and a meaningful job. The 2017 recipient of APEGA’s top honour, the Centennial Leadership Summit Award, added that an extra success boost came from his wife, Gail Hufty. “I can’t count the number of times she’s steered me away from disaster.” One of APEGA’s longest-serving and most dedicated volunteers, Dr. Faulkner retired as APEGA’s Board of Examiners Chair in 2015. He is the Director, Rehabilitation Research & Technology Development, for the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, where his innovations in robotics, virtual reality, and other areas are dramatically improving people’s lives. He is one of only six three- time Summit Award recipients. Bottom His Worship Naheed Nenshi, the Mayor of Calgary, speaks passionately about the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation. Mr. Nenshi is calling on Canadians to perform three acts of community service this and every year thereafter. “It could be a tiny thing, like mowing your neighbour’s lawn. It could be a big thing, like joining one of APEGA’s professional committees. Doesn’t matter. The point is that every single one of us chooses to make community service part of our sesquicentennial celebration and part of our life.” Sesquicentennial, he also noted, is a fun word and not nearly as tough to say as it looks. To prove his point, the mayor led the crowd in reciting it. CENTENNIAL LEADERSHIP, SESQUICENTENNIAL LEADERSHIP, AND THE NUMBER THREE
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