Dr Sheila LeBlanc

Lifelong Learning Visiting Fellow, Trinity term 2025

Biography

Dr. Sheila LeBlanc has been the Director of the Continuing Education Division University of Calgary since 2015. She has a wide range of both academic and industry experience, with over 25 years’ experience in roles spanning programme design and teaching, academic leadership, corporate training, business operations, marketing and human resources management.

Prior to this appointment, Sheila spent three years in the Czech Republic, where she worked as a consultant at the University of New York in Prague to help them acquire an international quality accreditation for their business school – the first university in central Europe to acquire this accreditation. Before working abroad, she served as the Director of Corporate Learning and Continuing Education at MacEwan University and taught in both their Bachelor of Commerce programme and their Continuing Education Leadership certificate programme.

She has also worked at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and Capilano University as an instructor and corporate training developer. In addition to her extensive experience in post-secondary education, Sheila has been a management consultant specialising in talent and organisational development and spent over a decade in progressive leadership roles with Telus, a major telecommunications provider.

Sheila's academic interests and management practice span the areas of leadership, organisational development and higher education entrepreneurship. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, as well as a Master of Business Administration in Leadership and Organizational Change from Simon Fraser University and Bachelor of Administrative Studies, in Business Management and Marketing from Thompson Rivers University.