Ted Rogers School of Management Joins Forté to Advance Women in Business Leadership

The Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has partnered with Forté, the non-profit alliance dedicated to advancing women in business leadership, according to an announcement from the university.

The partnership makes the Toronto-based school part of Forté's network, which connects business schools, corporations, and students around a single goal: increasing the number of women in leadership roles across the business world. Forté has built its reputation on programming that spans the full arc of a business career, from undergraduate and MBA study through to senior executive roles.

For the Ted Rogers School of Management, the deal signals a formal commitment to that agenda at an institutional level. The school, one of Canada's largest undergraduate business programs and located in downtown Toronto, will now plug its students into Forté's pipeline of leadership development resources, networking access, and connections to employer partners who hire with gender diversity in mind.

Forté's model works through member schools and corporate sponsors. Member schools gain access to Forté's events, talent initiatives, and scholarship-linked programming, while their students join a national and international community of women pursuing business careers. The organization's corporate side includes major employers that use the network to recruit and develop female talent — a structure that gives participating students a direct line to recruiters at companies that treat diversity in leadership as a hiring priority.

The university framed the partnership as part of a broader effort to support women in business leadership. That framing matters for a school whose student body sits in one of North America's most competitive business job markets, where access to employer networks often determines who lands early-career leadership tracks.

The announcement did not specify a financial value for the agreement. Forté partnerships are typically structured as institutional memberships rather than revenue deals, with the benefit flowing through student access, programming, and brand positioning for the school.

For students at the Ted Rogers School of Management, the immediate practical effect is eligibility for Forté's programming and the networking that comes with it. For the school, the partnership aligns it with a recognized name in gender-diversity talent development at a time when Canadian employers face sustained pressure to move women into senior roles.

The deal positions TMU's business school alongside the alliance of institutions Forté counts as members, and it gives the school a concrete answer to a question every large business program now faces: what, structurally, are you doing to change who ends up in the leadership pipeline?