Monte Tugwete

Monte Tugwete focuses on Psychology, Leadership, and Human Development as lenses for academic inquiry. He is an exciting and creative university instructor with a combined 10+ years of experience in business, ministry and the academy, dedicated to creating and providing a fun-filled experiential and exploratory critical-thinking learning environment for students. He has taught Human Development at Rhodes Wellness College, Leadership at Trinity Western University and currently teaches Leadership, Talent Management and Change Management at University Canada West. He has a promising preliminary set of distinguished book projects, publications, as well as academic journal entries in North America, in which he deals with the tropes of systems of inequity, unwinding them, laying bare the bones, so that folks can understand them for themselves and equip themselves with the tools to dismantle them.

Expertise and Experience: Monte Tugwete is a highly qualified teaching faculty who specializes in leadership emergence as it is affected by context and embodiment. He is dedicated to bringing energy and creativity into the classroom. He is passionate about student success, and an expert at translating diversity and inclusion principles into classroom practice. Has an active scholarly profile with emphasis on pastoral psychology, leadership, ministry design, social justice and multicultural perspectives in learning as shown in his latest book, "It's Not Racism, It's Hatred, Hatred Of A Different Skin Colour: A Meta-Analysis Of The Root Cause Of Racialized Oppression." He is a enthusiastic collaborator on learning programs, with special interests in public engagement.

Publications

• It’s Not Racism, It’s Hatred, Hatred of a Different Skin Colour: A Meta-Analysis of the Root Cause of Racialized Oppression by Tellwell Talent 2025 ISBN 978-0-2288-3641-4 (Hardcover), 978-0-2288-3640-7 (Paperback), 978-0-2288-3642-1 (eBook)
• Radical Hospitality: An Ethnography of a Jesus Way of Building a Solid Church Community – Completed Book Manuscript
• DIFFERENCE SERIES – Series Published & Work-in-Progress
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Racial Oppression – PUBLISHED AS “It's Not RACISM, It's HATRED - HATRED of a DIFFERENT Skin Colour: ISBN 978-0-2288-3641-4 (Hardcover), 978-0-2288-3640-7 (Paperback), 978-0-2288-3642-1 (eBook)
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Bullying – Work-in-Progress
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Tribal Politics/Oppression – Work-in-Progress
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Gender-Based Discrimination – Work-in-Progress
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Adultism – Work-in-Progress
• Difference: The Missing Continuum in the Analysis of Ableism – Work-in-Progress
• Embodied & Contextual Leadership Development – Work-in-Progress
• “Use of the DSM-5 Diagnostic Manual as an Effective Intervention Tool in Family and Youth Ministry Psychopathologies” – Under Peer Review
• “Scaffolding/Pyramiding: A Positive Psychology Intervention Method in Ministry with Youths and their Families” – Under Peer Review
• “Fundamentals of African Religion Philosophy,” 14 June 2019.
• “Is English the Proper Language to Use in Studying African Spirituality?” 28 June 2019.
• “Est Momenti Ab Origins-The Importance of Origins in Leadership Emergence Studies: The Case of Barthalomew de la Casas & the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” 14 November 2019.

Awards

• Fellow Resilience in Leadership (2019-2020)
• William and Lucille Nickerson Scholarship (2017-2018)
• Msasa African Student Scholarship (2013-2015)
• John Robbins Hart Memorial Prize, Presented to a Graduating Student for Excellence in Preaching (2013-2015)

Certifications

• First Unit Certificate of PsychoPastoral Education - Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC)
• Trainer Dismantling Racism & Systems of Racialized Oppression
• Certificate in Workshop Environment Management CertWEM)
• Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
• Class 1 Journeyman Electrician’s License
• City & Guilds of London Technician Certificate in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (TechCertEEE)
• City & Guilds of London Technician Diploma in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (TechDipEEE)
• National Certificate in Power Electrical Engineering (NCEPE)

Courses taught at UCW

• Leadership in the Global Context - MGMT 601
• Change Management - MGMT 643
• Talent Management - MGMT 622