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Gabriel’s pedagogy for activating and supporting purpose driven leaders developed at Yale is also used in universities like MIT, Cornell, and Cambridge. In his volunteer time, he has mentored over one hundred social entrepreneurs from around the globe.

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His professional clients represent a diversity of sectors including: social entrepreneurship, transportation, energy, information and communication technology, healthcare, commercial and residential development, municipalities, and cultural institutions. Gabriel holds a PhD in Leadership and Sustainability from Yale University, an MS in Ecological Systems Engineering and a BS in Physics from Purdue University. His consulting, research, and coaching focuses on how people and organizations flourish within the pursuit of societal and planetary flourishing. He is also a cofounder of Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation. Gabriel is the founder of Human Partners, where he helps senior level executives craft cultures of purpose, trust, and engagement. Before he began teaching, he ran an Internet start-up, traveled around the world, taught kindergarten, received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in education from Harvard University, worked as a consultant with Dialogos International, and earned a doctorate in organization studies from MIT. Through his writing, teaching, and community building, he empowers business leaders to help their organizations thrive while tackling the tough social and environmental challenges of our time. He teaches courses on strategy and innovation for sustainable business to hundreds of leaders every year. Today, Jason is a senior lecturer and the director of the Sustainability Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He grew to understand how all these places he loves are fragile and committed himself to seeing them flourish for his children, Vikram and Uma, to enjoy with their children. Alaka’s family in India made him their own and helped him see the world as fundamentally interconnected. He moved to Boston and fell in love with his wife, Alaka, and life in a coastal city. Other candidates running in Vaughan's mayoral race include longtime north Concord/Thornhill Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco, and former Vaughan councillor and former federal minister of seniors Deb Schulte, among others.ĭel Duca has lived in Vaughan for the past 35 years with his wife, two daughters and two dogs.Jason grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where he lived in awe of snowy mountains and watched his parents build a business that improved people’s lives. There's a whole bunch of work that needs to be done and it needs to be done in a way that helps benefit every family and every small business here in this incredible community.' I want the Yonge North Subway Extension to come up to Vaughan but we have a whole bunch of east west road connections that need to be built. 'I want to see GO train lines through Woodbridge, and through what's known as Kleinburg-Nashville. Last month, Ontario's Liberal caucus selected John Fraser as the party's interim leader.ĭel Duca says his experience as transportation minister gives him an advantage to fight the “traffic gridlock crisis” in Vaughan. He then became leader of the party in 2020, after Wynne stepped down following her defeat in the 2018 provincial election.

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The 49-year-old ran for a seat in Vaughan-Woodbridge but lost to incumbent PC candidate Michael Tibollo, who also beat Del Duca in the same riding in 2018.ĭel Duca was first elected to provincial office in 2012, and served as transportation and economic development minister in the Kathleen Wynne government between 20. 'We've had exceptional leadership over the past 12 years from Maurizio Bevilacqua, a dear friend of mine, and I want to carry on with that tradition to keep building in particular to make sure that our transportation network keeps up with the growth because traffic gridlock is a brutal, brutal problem right now here in the city of Vaughan and that's what I want to focus on,' he said.ĭel Duca stepped down as the Liberals’ party leader in June immediately following his crushing loss in the provincial election. Outgoing Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua announced in June that he would not be seeking another term in office, after holding that role for more than a decade.ĭel Duca says he had a chance to work closely with Bevilacqua and thanks him for his service to the city.

But I'm passionate about public service again,' Del Duca told CP24 Tuesday morning. 'Well, first of all, I spent the last couple of months with family and close friends reflecting on what took place in June. The former Ontario Liberal Party leader made the announcement Tuesday morning and pledged to focus on fighting traffic gridlock in the city. Steven Del Duca is running to become the next mayor of Vaughan.