AlumX Talks

The boxes are all ticked: a beautiful house, supportive relationships and a successful career – yet, you don’t feel fulfilled. You’re tired of feeling like you’re “going through the motions” and that your job is just a means to an end. Deep down, your greatest fear is looking back and realizing that you barely scratched the surface of your fullest potential and worse, you never found the courage to live your dream life. Internationally certified life coach Sarah Lajeuesse shows you how to redefine success on your own terms and start living with more meaning, power, passion and purpose!
Sarah is an internationally certified and award winning life coach from the Beautiful You Coaching Academy, who helps people elevate their innate human potential personally and professionally. She has a degree in marketing with a minor in social responsibility from the University of Lethbridge. Through her individual and corporate coaching programs, speaking and hosting events and sharing free resources at sarahlajeunesse.com, Sarah teaches a radically different approach to discovering and expressing our untapped human capacity for leadership and life.

Lawyer Diane Turner tells the story of her introduction to the experiences of First Nations people in the legal system as a U of L student and how it has influenced her career and advocacy work as a lawyer in British Columbia.
Diane was called to the British Columbia bar in 1984 and worked as a prosecutor for the Attorney General of B.C. She entered private practice in 1996 and works as a civil litigator at Kelliher & Turner in Victoria. Her recent work involves addressing systemic flaws in the approach to child apprehension cases, particularly for First Nations children. She was instrumental in the development of the initial comprehensive Violence Against Women Policy in 1992 and has supported ant-violence initiatives for decades. She served on the B.C. Task Force on Family Violence, various B.C. Law Society and Canadian Bar Association committees and on the Provincial Court of British Columbia Judicial Council, responsible for interviewing candidates to the provincial court. She is engaged in various cases involving indigenous title claims and court actions to neutralize the non-traditional, dictatorial regimes established by Indian Affairs.

Kevin McGeough graduated from the University of Lethbridge in 1996 with a BA (History), Great Distinction. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1998, with an MTS. His PhD is from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania (2005). He is a Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge. He teaches courses in archaeological methods and theories and regional surveys of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Kevin also teaches Biblical Hebrew and is an occasional contributor to the Liberal Education program. One of Kevin’s current research programs is the study of how non-specialists make use of archaeological data, and especially how the study of the ancient Near East has influenced various aspects of popular and public life. He is currently working on a monograph on the manifestations of this in the 19th century.  As an avid film fan, he has also studied public misconceptions of archaeology that are rooted in cinema experiences and is expanding this study to other genres. He currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant with Elizabeth Galway as part of a project investigating the presentation of archaeology in children’s literature. He is also interested in means of integrating textual and archaeological evidence. Much of his previous work has been on how this can be applied to the study of ancient economics, especially at the site of Ugarit. Currently, he is the editor of the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research. He was the editor for the American Schools of Oriental Research’s Archaeological Report Series (ARS). He is also a lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America. He has excavated in Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt.