Chantal Hervieux

Chantal Hervieux is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Ethics, and Social Entrepreneurship at Saint Mary's University (SMU) and Director of the Sobey School of Business’ Centre for Leadership Excellence. She also serves as Program Director for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Her academic expertise spans systems thinking, impact assessment, and social innovation, with a focus on community collaboration and stakeholder engagement in global contexts such as Guatemala, Kenya, Morocco, and Martinique. Hervieux holds a PhD and has contributed to international research on hybrid organizations, shared value frameworks, and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Her work emphasizes bridging commercial and civic logics in social entrepreneurship.

Education: PhD (degree details unspecified). Research interests include systems approaches to social impact, ethical business practices, and global sustainability challenges. She has published extensively on topics like ESG criteria implementation, CSR in emerging markets, and the paradoxes of non-profit resilience.

Her articles highlight trends in social systems analysis, SDG mapping in Africa, and the strategic performance of systems change. She critiques traditional win-win shared value models and advocates for adaptive, context-specific CSR frameworks. Hervieux has also explored hybrid organizational models and the role of impact investing in fostering social innovation.

Awards and grants are not explicitly mentioned in the text. As an academic leader, she has advised on initiatives such as the Fondaction case study in social finance and co-authored key texts on cooperative coffees as a model for equitable trade. Her research often intersects with global development policies and NGO strategies.

Through the Centre for Leadership Excellence, she fosters leadership development aligned with ethical business practices. Her international fieldwork underscores a commitment to actionable solutions for systemic social and environmental challenges.