We collaborate with McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, known worldwide for its ability to train exceptional medical leaders. With the reputation of our Desautels Faculty of Management for innovative programs, we aim to develop world leaders and managers in all aspects of health care.
Directors
Sabine Dhir
Academic Director and Module Director, IMHL
Sabine Dhir is the Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and Academic Director of the Integrated Management Student Fellowship (IMSF), a program that fosters leadership and research through interdisciplinary, experiential learning. Sabine’s role of Academic Director of the International Master’s for Health Leadership (IMHL) reflects her deep commitment to advancing leadership in global health systems.
Sabine holds a doctorate in Neurology and Neurosurgery from McGill and an Honours BSc from the University of Toronto. She previously led the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program at the RI-MUHC, where she oversaw strategic initiatives across six research sites.
Her expertise spans biomedical and health strategy, policy development, and international collaboration. She has contributed to the design of institute-wide guidelines and government dossiers, and her research explores health management, sustainability, climate-resilient health systems, and holistic social entrepreneurship.
Henry Mintzberg
IMHL founder, instructor, and John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies (Strategy & Organization)
Henry Mintzberg, (BEng '61, McGill; PhD '68, MIT), holds the Cleghorn Chair of Management Studies at McGill University.
Professor Mintzberg received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University and Master’s Degree and PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Named as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world by the Financial Times and the New York Times, Professor Mintzberg has published 21 books and a multitude of articles on managing originations, developing managers, rebalancing societies, strategy formation and organizational structure (see publications).
Professor Mintzberg has been elected to the Order of Canada and l’Ordre Nationale du Quebec, as well as to the Royal Society of Canada (first from a management faculty). He has authored two prize winning Harvard Business Review articles, and received twenty-one honorary degrees from universities around the world.
To read more about Henry Mintzberg, go to www.mintzberg.org
Module Directors
Andy Caldwell
Leadership development facilitator and ICF credentialed coach
Andy Caldwell is an experienced facilitator and coach, focused on enabling collaborative, humane, and effective leadership in complex health and care systems.
As Founder and Managing Partner of CoCreate Consultancy, Andy works across 11 Integrated Care System footprints in the UK, providing board development, executive team development, and large scale leadership programs. He also coaches Chief Executives, Chairs and Regional Directors, supporting their capacity to lead across organizational boundaries and create the conditions for shared learning, trust, and system-wide change.
His practice draws on Systems Thinking, Systemic Constellations, and the iEQ9 Enneagram, integrated with reflective and mindfulness-based approaches shaped by his background in martial arts and outdoor leadership. This helps leaders understand how systems shape behaviour and develop new ways of thinking and working together.
Sujata Madan
Senior Faculty Lecturer, Finance
Sujata Madan is a Professor of Practice at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University. Sujata teaches courses to Undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, IMHL, and Executive Education participants.
She was the recipient of the Featherstonhaugh Family Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award (Undergraduate Programs) for 2021-2022. Sujata was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow in 2020 and is the recipient of the 2021 Academy of Finance Excellence in Teaching Award. Sujata was awarded the University-wide Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching for 2011 and was awarded the Desautels Faculty of Management Distinguished Teaching Award at the graduate level in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, and 2008.
Sujata has also taught in Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Russia, Singapore and India. Prior to joining the Faculty, she has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and Citibank. Sujata holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from MIT (USA), and an MBA from IIM-A (India).
Anthony C. Masi
Professor of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour
Anthony C. Masi joined McGill’s Department of Sociology in 1979. His research has focused on labour markets in Italy and Canada, including fieldwork in steel mills. He collaborated with Canadian and Swedish researchers to design labour force surveys and interview managers and union leaders in steel, pulp and paper, and telecommunications industries. Later, he examined the process of deindustrialization in Italy.
Early in his career, Prof. Masi founded the Faculty of Arts Computer Services and later served as McGill’s Vice-Principal (Information Systems and Technologies) in 2000. He became Provost (chief academic officer and chief budget officer) in 2005 and, after ten years, returned to teaching and research at the Desautels Faculty of Management in 2015. His current research examines changes in Italian employment patterns since 1990 using national labour and social surveys.
Prof Masi was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy (2012) and Canada’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013).
IMHL Teaching Faculty
A selection of accomplished subject matter experts who facilitate our module sessions and bring the learning to life.
Maxime Cohen
Maxime Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Academic Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University. He is the Chief of AI Strategy of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (Jewish General Hospital) and the Scientific Director of the non-profit MyOpenCourt.org. He is also a Scientific Advisor in AI at IVADO Labs, and he is actively advising corporations, retailers, and startups on topics related to pricing, retail, and data science.
Anicet Fangwa
Anicet Fangwa Nantcho is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization at McGill Desautels Faculty of Management. Professor Fangwa's research focuses on understanding how organizations' governance affects the achievement of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as good health promotion, gender equality, and sustainable cities.
Samer Faraj
Samer Faraj is professor at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Innovation and Organizing, an associate member of the McGill Department of the Social Studies of Medicine and leads the research group on Complex Collaboration (xcollaboration.org). In 2025 he was appointed as the director of the forthcoming McGill Institute for Transforming Healthcare. His current research focuses on complex collaboration in healthcare and on how emergent technologies are transforming coordination and allowing new forms of organizing to emerge.
Richard (Rick) Fleet (IMHL’2021)
Richard Fleet, MD PhD, is an emergency physician, clinical psychologist, and Full Professor at Université Laval’s Department of Family and Emergency Medicine. He is the Founding Director of the Living Lab Charlevoix, a rural innovation hub that mobilizes clinicians, citizens, and decision-makers to transform emergency care through design thinking, leadership, and creativity.
Ashveena Gajeelee
Ashveena Gajeelee is an Adaptive Leadership consultant with more than 15 years of experience in financial management and regulatory affairs. She is the CEO and Founder of Veritas Quest LLC, a Boston based consulting firm. She equips professionals globally with innovative leadership tools, training high calibre professionals and C-suite executives.
Miriam Gosling Gage
Miriam Gosling Gage is a Program Manager with CoCreate Consultancy, and a dynamic Personal Development Coach specialising in Personal Development challenges. She is an experienced facilitator of large groups, and has been running large scale events and programs for over a decade on behalf of international NGOs, creative arts organisations and Pelumbra Ltd.
Ahmad Firas Khalid (IMHL'14)
Ahmad Firas Khalid, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor and a Senior Policy Analyst at Public Services and Procurement Canada, Government of Canada. He also serves as an adjunct professor at McGill and McMaster University. Firas is well-versed in health policy and system research and is an experienced lecturer and knowledge mobilization professional.
Martin A. Koyle (IMHL’2021)
Martin Koyle MD, MSc, MMgmt, MBA(cert), FAAP, FACS, FRCSC, FRCS(Eng.), FRSM is Professor Emeritus of Surgery Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. After an illustrious 35-year career in the United States, Dr. Koyle returned to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto in 2011, as Chief of the Division of Urology.
Antonia Maioni
Antonia Maioni is Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy at the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. Her research focuses on health-care reform, public policy, and comparative politics.
Debbie Sorkin
Debbie Sorkin is National Director of Systems Leadership at the Leadership Centre, where she has led systems leadership work for eight years, including a national program across health, local government and social care. She currently supports Integrated Care Systems and is part of the faculty for Leading for Systems Change. Her work centres on facilitation and coaching, helping individuals, teams and boards think differently, work creatively and take practical action in complex systems.
