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Session One - Keynote: Boards That Deliver: Driving Equity, Impact, and Business Performance
Monday May. 12 - 12:45 PM - 1:25 PM (40 min)
- Making the Case: what it means, key trends, value proposition
- Case Studies: 2 leading examples of how corporations get it right
- Approach: strategy frameworks, what good looks like, risks if we do nothing
- Top 5 questions to ask, top 5 flags to address
Session Two: Strategic Foresight: What is the Board’s Role in Scenario Planning?
Monday May. 12 - 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM (45 min)
Sponsored by MNP.
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Session Four: Fireside Chat: The Future of Integrated Talent and Pay Governance at the Board
Monday May. 12 - 3:50 PM - 4:35 PM (45 min)
The most important role of the Board is to attract, retain and engage the most effective leadership team. Gone are the days of discrete conversations – pay and performance in Q4 and Q1 and talent in Q3/Q4. Integrated talent and pay discussions year-round are critical to ensuring a stable, sustainable and high performing leadership teams. Spotlighting client examples, with guest speakers you will learn how to enhance your agendas and processes to have more robust and thoughtful discussions about executive talent as well as, ensure the compensation programs and tools are set up to most effectively retain, engage and support the talent agenda at your organization.
Southlea Group is Canada’s fastest growing independent executive compensation and governance advisory firm with global insights and local advice. www.southlea.com
Session Five: Interactive Session
Monday May. 12 - 4:40 PM - 5:25 PM (45 min)
Carolyn Lawrence
Founder of CLEAR PATH
Carolyn has spent the last two decades focused on fixing inequities in the workforce and believes that the next level in this space is to integrate equity right into how you do business, so inequities don’t occur in the first place.
Her career journey began at Women of Influence, a social enterprise focused on gender equity, where she succeeded the founder and spent a decade diversifying revenue and growing reach.
Recognizing corporate culture had to evolve to move the needle on gender equity, she sold the business and joined Deloitte to establish and build their National DEI consulting practice. In that role, she developed strategy, programs, and implementation for clients across finance, technology, law, health care, mining, venture capital, the public sector, and more.
Having proven her ability to initiate transformative change, Carolyn was tapped to become the first Global DEI Leader at Deloitte, responsible for driving equity and a culture of inclusion across 50+ geographies, and 21 business units.
After 8 years at the firm, she's chosen to leverage her wealth of experience, extensive exposure, and profound expertise to help organizations of all sizes address the foremost obstacles to achieving human equity — and optimize their business.
Highlights + Accomplishments:
Award-Winning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Leader: Recognized executive with an unwavering commitment to fostering DE&I.
Champion of Women's Advancement: Known for igniting women's progress in the corporate world, driving DE&I improvements across Canada, and instigating global cultural transformation within the world's largest professional services firm.
Visionary and Purpose-Driven Collaborator: Renowned for visionary thinking, passionate dedication, and purpose-driven collaboration, with a proven track record of effecting meaningful change.
Strategic Partnership Architect: Skillful in designing innovative strategic partnership models to identify and overcome barriers, facilitating the development of effective solutions that drive DE&I objectives.
Exemplary Executive Presence: Respected for a commanding executive presence, adept senior stakeholder management, and effective governance, consistently delivering impactful results.
Sessions
Monday May. 12 - 12:45pm - 01:25pm (40 min)
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Mary Larson, associée, Consultation chez MNP, dirige l’équipe responsable de la stratégie nationale du cabinet. Ses priorités sont les facteurs environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) et la stratégie opérationnelle. Les rôles de leadership stratégique qu’elle a assumés à titre de cadre pour des sociétés internationales ou à titre d’associée dans des cabinets de services-conseils de premier plan lui ont permis de développer un éventail de compétences pour la direction d’équipe et la culture organisationnelle, ainsi qu’une connaissance fine du développement durable.
Son expérience de la gestion de projets de transformation de culture et d’organisation au sein de sociétés d’État et de sociétés dont les chiffres d’affaires s’élèvent à plusieurs milliards de dollars l’a amenée à conseiller de nombreux chefs de la direction et de cadres aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Europe.
Elle a occupé des postes de haute direction chez McDonald’s Corporation aux États-Unis et chez Alcan au Canada. En effet, après un début de carrière au Boston Consulting Group aux États-Unis, Mary a poursuivi son chemin au Canada chez McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman et Kearney.
Son engagement envers le développement durable au cours des deux dernières décennies l’a amenée à devenir une experte des facteurs ESG à l’échelle nationale. Elle siège actuellement au comité consultatif du Clayman Institute for Gender Research de l’Université Stanford et au conseil d’administration du Forum international des femmes du Canada et de Chez Doris (le refuge pour femmes le plus important à Montréal). Elle est également membre du conseil consultatif de l’École d’éducation permanente de l’Université McGill.
Bachelière de l’Université de Princeton, Mary a complété une M.B.A. à la Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Sessions
Monday May. 12 - 01:45pm - 02:30pm (45 min)
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Amanda Voegeli
President & Managing Partner at Southlea Group
Amanda is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Southlea Group.
Prior to this, she grew the Canadian Rewards practice at a large, multi-service consulting firm, spending 25 years as a well-known and trusted advisor to the boards and management teams of many of Canada's largest and mid-sized companies (both publicly-traded and privately-held). She uses her business acumen and direct approach to solve business challenges covering all matters related to pay levels, design and governance.
Industry Focus
Amanda works across all industries, with specific expertise working with miners, asset managers (including, but not limited to, all of the Maple 8 pension plans), broader financial services and insurance, and technology.
Amanda is a well known advisor in the asset management space and is regularly asked to advise Boards on current and projected trends in this unique sector.
Education
Amanda has a Bachelors of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. She is currently enrolled in the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Director Education Program and holds her Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Affiliations
Amanda is a member of the Canadian advisory Committee of the Global Equity Organization (GEO), member of Women Get On Board, and a Board member for the North American AT Children's Project. She frequently presents on topics of compensation and governance matters.
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Monday May. 12 - 03:50pm - 04:35pm (45 min)
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Alexandra Kindbom
Chief Client Officer at Marsh Canada Limited
Lexie Kindbom is the Chief Client Officer of Marsh Canada, focusing on the Risk Management
and Corporate segments. In this role, she oversees the voice of the client program and works
with colleagues from across the organization to foster deeper relationships with clients and drive
enhanced retention and sustained growth. Throughout her career, Lexie has been strategic
advisor to risk managers, C-suite executives, and boards of directors primarily with respect to
D&O risk management. Lexie is a member of Marsh Canada’s Executive Committee and the
Executive Sponsor of Marsh Canada’s Inclusion & Diversity Council.
Lexie brings more than 25 years of legal and insurance brokerage experience to Marsh clients.
She is a leading advisor to companies, senior executives and directors across Canada with
respect to directors and officers (D&O) liability, risk and insurance. Lexie was Willis Towers
Watson’s Canada Head for FINEX Financial Institutions. Prior to that role, she led the FINPRO
Claims Advocacy Practice and was appointed the Professional Services Industry Practice
leader for Marsh Canada. Lexie is a past member of Marsh’s Global FINPRO Advisory Board,
which was developed to raise the bar for excellence in the D&O field. She began her career as
a practicing insurance defense litigation lawyer.
Lexie has been significantly involved in directors’ and officers’ education in Canada with a focus
on governance, D&O liability and risk management. She is a graduate of the Directors’
Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, sponsored by the Institute of
Corporate Directors at the University of Toronto. Lexie facilitated the module on D&O Insurance
and Indemnification at Rotman and other business schools in Canada for over ten years.
Lexie holds a B.A. Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from Tulane Law School.
She attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Law to obtain her Canadian Legal
Accreditation and is admitted to practice law in the Province of Ontario.
