Leadership Enablement Program
Empowering Racialized Professionals · Fall 2026 Cohort
A structured, evidence-based 10-week developmental journey designed to accelerate the personal, professional, and leadership growth of professionals across Calgary's evolving labour market and energy sector.
The BridgeUp YYC LEP, developed and delivered by Kongnetiman & Associates Inc., integrates three interconnected developmental modalities to equip participants with the self-awareness, career clarity, leadership identity, and professional networks required to lead with confidence.
One-on-one guided conversations that surface your strengths, challenge limiting beliefs, and build the self-awareness essential to effective leadership.
Knowledge transfer and applied skill-building from an experienced leader across municipal government, energy, and global consulting.
Active advocacy and employer-connected practice that opens doors, builds your professional network, and accelerates real-world opportunity.
BridgeUp YYC isn't a lecture series — it's a guided developmental partnership. Through one-on-one coaching, experienced mentoring, and active sponsorship, you're supported at every step of your leadership transformation.
BridgeUp YYC LEP is designed for those ready to step into — or up within — leadership roles across Calgary's evolving labour market and energy sector.
Build leadership identity and professional readiness before you graduate — so you enter the workforce ready to lead, not just participate.
Transition from academic achievement to professional leadership with the frameworks, networks, and clarity your degree alone doesn't provide.
Bring your subject matter expertise into leadership positions with a structured arc that builds the credibility and confidence transition demands.
Navigate Calgary's evolving energy landscape with economic literacy, anti-oppressive leadership practice, and a sector-informed leadership portfolio.
From deep identity exploration to a complete Leadership Portfolio and a 90-day action plan — every week is purposeful.
Deep exploration of personal leadership identity, values clarification, and the anti-oppressive frameworks that ground authentic leadership.
Applied leadership frameworks, strengths-based practice, and the Prosci ADKAR model of change — tools you can deploy immediately.
Develop the professional gravitas, communication authority, and strategic confidence required to lead at senior levels.
Sponsorship-activated connections to Calgary's professional community — real networks built through real engagement.
Complete a comprehensive Leadership Portfolio and a concrete 90-day action plan that sustains momentum well beyond the final session.
A grounded understanding of who you are as a leader and where you're going — built through coaching and reflection.
Documented evidence of your leadership growth, frameworks applied, and professional accomplishments throughout the program.
A concrete, personalized roadmap that sustains your leadership momentum well beyond the final session.
Sponsorship-activated connections across Calgary's labour market and energy sector that last beyond the program.
The confidence, frameworks, and professional credibility to lead — not just manage — in complex organizational environments.
BridgeUp YYC LEP is a Calgary-rooted, sector-informed investment in your leadership future — 10 weeks of coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship designed to change your trajectory.
Limited spots available — applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Stanley A. Kongnetiman is an accomplished economist, author, and educator with over 20 years of experience across municipal government, energy, global consulting, and academia — born in Suriname and shaped by the full weight of navigating corporate hierarchies as a Black professional in Canada.
As City Economist for Calgary, International Consultant at S&P Global (IHS Markit), and instructor at SAIT, Stanley has navigated — and helped others navigate — the most demanding organizational environments in Canada and internationally.
BridgeUp YYC LEP distills his decades of experience, advanced academic credentials, and Prosci-certified change management expertise into a focused, transformative program for the next generation of Calgary leaders.
Program starts September 5, 2026. Spots are limited — $749.95 for the full 10-week program. Submit your information and Stanley's team will be in touch within 48 hours.
Official Fall 2026 program flyer — click to view full size