Pros
Cool mandate, ability to work with great entrepreneurs, lean about amazing technologies and diverse markets and make an impact. Some of the executive and leadership are great if you're lucky enough to have the right boss and they can last.
Cons
Cons? The CEO - full stop. She spends all of her time managing up (to the Chair of the Board, who really makes all the strategic decisions) and outwards (to the government, media and stakeholders) in order to craft and promote this fantasy that she's such a great, inspirational and knowledgeable leader that has transformed the agency. However the way she projects and engages internally is completely opposite. She regularly diminishes the accomplishments of the team, uses humiliating and demeaning language and generally exhibits a visceral disdain for those that work for her. The latest article about her in the Globe and Mail couldn't be more wrong ("modest to a fault"); in reality she takes credit for any real accomplishment. Leah has this sad need to be seen as the unlikely hero that rode into town from the west, blasting through Ottawa's "bureaucracy " and saved the day for the cleantech industry. It is all about her, not the environment, not the entrepreneurs.