Message from the President & Chair
Every year, Lambton College is the backdrop for outcomes that might seem nothing short of miraculous. After all, this is a College where we believe every learner deserves to dream, and that every dream can become a career. Each June, we watch as graduates cross our Convocation stage with tears in their eyes for the self-doubts, barriers, and everything else they overcame, forever part of their stories but – credential in hand – becoming part of their past.
But for all the extraordinariness of the results and the diversity of our students and their success stories, every one of them achieves what they do in the same, rather ordinary way: They take it one day at a time, steadily getting a little better incrementally until their compounded efforts culminate in something great.
Rob Kardas
President & CEO
Lambton College
Tania Lee
Chair, Board of Governors
Lambton College
We guide and support them in every part of this process, of course. It’s a method we know well at Lambton College.
In the ensuing pages of this Strategic Plan, you’re going to see crucial goals that are nothing short of ambitious, even verging on daunting. But it’s important to remember that over the course of our last Strategic Plan, we galvanized our commitment to the students who entrust us with their educations and futures and the clients who entrust us with research and innovation, corporate and industrial training, hiring and workforce development, and community enrichment. We focused on our mission and continuously worked to elevate our own standards, and along the way, we cemented our global reputation for education and research with world-class facilities to match.
Yes, there was a huge range of accomplishments that took place over the last five years, and every one of them was achieved in the same, rather ordinary way.
As we commence a pivotal five-year period in Lambton College’s history, there is no greater time than this to formalize our commitment to being the best at being better – consistently challenging ourselves to find small, incremental improvements, whether in our work or as individuals and members of this community.
We say this because what we really want our employees to see in the ensuing pages of this Strategic Plan is themselves and the impact they can have by simply striving to be a little better at every opportunity while surrounded by others who are doing the same.
This Strategic Plan is an affirmation of who we are and how we lead for our students and clients, our people, and our local and global communities. It’s also a confirmation that we’re ready to establish a stronger and more steadfast version of Lambton College.
In a way, you could say that with this plan, we’re betting on ourselves.
What it will take is for every member of this Lambton College community to make that commitment to being the best at being better.
So let’s go All In.