Canada's Largest Corporations Board Diversity Best Practices Roundtables

WHEN and WHERE

In 2011, in partnership with Ernst & Young and Odgers Berndtson, we have organized and held ten Roundtables, now titled Board Diversity Best Practices Roundtables, in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal. Invited to these Roundtables are FP500 Nominating Chairs, Board Chairs and CEOs. The ten Roundtables have been attended by directors of 70 FP500 organizations.  Two have been rescheduled for Q1 2012.  They  provide a valuable forum for directors to learn from their peers who have successfully increased diversity on their boards, and take away the CBDC Tool Kit to implement their own board diversity guidelines/policies. Board diversity remains a challenge for many of Canada's largest organizations. We appreciated the candour of the discussions and fully support the Board's imperative of identifying individuals with the competencies and judgment to fulfill their roles as Directors and increase shareholder value. To do so, the Council believes the entire talent pool of qualified individuals needs to be considered by Canada's largest boards when replacing retiring or departing Directors.

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