About the Author

Benjamin Kutsyuruba (Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan) is an Associate Professor in Educational Policy, Leadership, and School Law and an Associate Director of Social Program Evaluation Group (SPEG) in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Throughout his career, Benjamin has worked as a teacher, researcher, manager, and professor in the field of education in Ukraine and Canada. His research interests include educational policymaking; educational leadership; mentorship and development of teachers; trust, moral agency, and ethical decision-making in education; international education; school climate, safety, well-being, and flourishing; and educational change, reform, and restructuring. His areas of teaching are educational leadership, school law and policy, educational policy studies, and policymaking in education. Keith Walker (Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan) is a professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and in the Department of Educational Administration in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. He believes in the fundamental importance of robust systems of early childhood, K-12 education, and post-secondary education for the well-being of civil societies and has a wide-angle focus on lifelong and life-wide education in his work. To his way of thinking, organizational-community and leadership learning and development in all three sectors (public, social and private) are critical. His academic expertise in educational administration, executive leadership, organizational development and applied ethics match well with his public policy research interests (governance, leadership-constituent relationships and social policy). Walker's present projects range from an examination of trust - why it is important, how it can be sustained - to how we might further engage public and social sectors to become flourishing and engaging organizations.