The GPC-EP delivers critical and relevant content for governance professionals in a condensed, rigorous program with key speakers from across Canada. It consists of three 2.5 day Course that are each at least offered twice a year, enabling busy professionals to complete the modules in a schedule that works for them.
It is designed for anyone operating in a governance role, whether in public, private, not-for-profit or governmental organizations. Individuals new to these roles as well as seasoned professionals will find benefit in the GPC.D as it will not only provide them with the latest best practices, skills and tools in governance, but will enhance standard of their profession.
Registration Fee:
GPC member price: $7,550 + HST Non Member price: $8,250 + HST (includes the cost of a ONE YEAR GPC membership and processing fee)
Please note that GPC members will be given priority on first come, first served basis.
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The Co-operative and Credit Union Governance Summit is designed with leaders in mind. This Summit is intended to provide board members, senior leaders and governance practitioners strategic insights and inform governance best practices. The event will explore current and emerging governance issues relevant to co-operatives and credit unions. Equipped with the latest research and in-depth knowledge, our speakers will share their expertise with real-world examples, thought-provoking presentations and engage participants in stimulating discussion. This conference is for Chief Executive Officers, Governance Professionals, Corporate Secretaries, Directors and Senior Managers working within the credit union and co-operative organizations. Join us to connect, network and learn with your sector peers from across Canada..
This conference is for Chief Executive Officers, governance professionals, directors, corporate secretaries and senior managers working within the credit union and co-operative organizations.
Key topics to be covered include :
Bob Armstrong, Board Chair, Coast Capital Savings Carmel Bellamy, Associate Vice-President, Governance and Corporate Secretary, The Co-operators Group Limited Julie Breuer, Vice-President, Member Relations and Stakeholder Engagement, Central 1 Credit Union Brigitte Catellier, Vice-President, Corporate Governance, Meridian Credit Union Korinne Collins, Vice-President, Professional Development and Events, Canadian Credit Union Association Meg Comiskey, Manager, Corporate Governance and Board Secretariat, Vancouver Airport Authority Matt Fullbrook, Manager, David and Sharon Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation, Rotman School of Management Murray Fulton, Co-operative Retailing System Chair in Co-operative Governance; Fellow in Co-operatives and Public Policy at the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives John Jennings, Director, Watson Inc. Shona McGlashan, Vice-President, Governance, and Corporate Secretary, Vancity Marc-Andre Pigeon, Assistant Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy; Director, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives Dionne Pohler, Associate Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman Management, University of Toronto Wayne Schatz, Vice-President and General Counsel, (Operations and Distribution) The Co-operators Group Limited Sheldon Stener, Q.C. General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Strategy, Federated Co-operatives Limited Coro Strandberg, President, Strandberg Consulting
In partnership with the Institute on Governance, GPC has designed a one-day course to help the professional staff of crowns, agencies and other distributed governance organizations better understand the principles and practices of good public sector governance and how to help their organizations, and their boards, succeed in changing times.
Introduction to Public Sector Governance
Emerging Issues in Public Sector Governance
Supporting Public Sector Boards
Public Stewardship
Brad Graham
Vice President, Toronto
The Institute on Governance
Brad Graham is Vice President, Toronto, at the Institute on Governance (IOG) and a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and at the University of Toronto.
At the Institute on Governance, Brad delivers the mandatory training for all Ontario provincial appointees to agencies, boards and commissions. The session explores topics such as public sector governance, accountability, public stewardship, fiduciary responsibilities, risk management, and how to succeed in an ever-changing governance landscape.
Brad Graham spent 25 years in the Ontario Public Service in a variety of senior leadership positions. His areas of expertise include public sector governance, fiscal policy, health care policy, economics, and growth planning.
In his position as the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Ontario Growth Secretariat, with the Ministry Public Infrastructure he provided leadership for the government’s award-winning Places to Grow initiative including the development and implementation of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Leading since its inception, their work has received national and international acclaim through numerous awards including the American Planning Association’s Daniel Burnham Award, an Award for Planning Excellence from the Canadian Institute of Planners, the first ever Leonard Gertler Award of Distinction from the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, and the Canadian Urban Institute’s 2008 Urban Leadership Award. Brad has also been awarded Ontario’s Amethyst Award for excellence in public service.
Brad Graham was also Assistant Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Research and Innovation and with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. He also held senior positions at the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the Premier’s Council on Health, and the Ministry of Finance.
Meetings, Minutes and Running Effective Board Meetings is brought to you by Diligent. This session outlines statutory and common law rules in relation to meetings of directors, members, managed investment schemes, class meetings and meetings of creditors. This workshop provides guidance on good governance practices for the notice, planning and conduct of meetings and examines legal and regulatory requirements for procedures in relation to minutes and running effective board meetings.
This workshop is an interactive half-day gaining insight on both the practical and legal requirements you need to be aware of when holding meetings, taking minutes, recording procedures, guiding directors, preparing resolutions and managing circumstances such as conflicts of interest.
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Presenter: John Dinner, President, John T. Dinner Board Governance Services
This session qualifies for 4.0 GECs.
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Please note this is a green event - presentation packages will not be handed out. Only electronic copies will be emailed prior to event.
GPC Course Cancelation Policy
Governance Professionals of Canada’s policy on payment and registration changes is designed to be flexible. We are committing to doing our best to accommodate you within the limits of this policy.
Governance Professionals of Canada reserves the right to:
If the anticipated minimum registration has not been met within four days of a session start date, or if any unforeseen circumstances occur, GPC may elect to cancel or reschedule the session. In this event, registrants will be notified immediately, and any fees already paid and received by GPC can be either refunded or re-allocated to the rescheduled session, or as a credit toward another GPC event or course. GPC shall not be responsible for any other costs incurred by the participants other than their registration fees.
Refund & Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing a minimum 7 days prior to the date of the event to be eligible for a refund or a credit. All refunds or credits are subject to a $50 administration fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after the minimum 7 days timeframe.
If you register for an event and do not attend, or cancel within 7 days of the event, you are liable for the full event fee. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another individual. Note, if there are any fee differences associated with a substitution registration type (example: member versus non-member pricing), the price differential would be credited or charged accordingly.
All refunds and cancellation requests should be emailed to events@gpcanada.org.
Patrick Cormier is the former Vice President (Digital Transformation) at Solutions Notarius Inc., a Montreal-based company providing high reliability digital signatures to professionals and organizations throughout Canada. In the period 2011 to early 2014, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology - Centre canadien de technologie judiciaire (CCCT-CCTJ). He also currently serves as Chair of the Innovation Experts Committee of DIACC - the Digital ID & Authentication Canadian Council. Mr. Cormier is a regular conference speaker on digital transformation, information management and the law. He also provided continuous legal education to judges and members of the Justice sector across the country. (click here for detailed bio.)
La gouvernance assure le respect des obligations législatives et réglementaires. Si la gouvernance est considérée comme étant la somme des processus et des structures mise en place pour maximiser le succès d’une organisation, alors les règlements sont là où sa pratique peut être soigneusement élaborée à sa base. Les règlements optimisés de façon continue, peuvent vraiment aider une organisation à prospérer et empêcher les problèmes de devenir ingérables. Au cours de cette session, les participants examinent comment les règlements personnalisés sont élaborés pour aider une organisation opérant dans un context complexe, à se développer et prospèrer.
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Innovations in Board and Director Evaluations for Sophisticated Boards
Board members are typically highly accomplished businesspeople who have a track record of jaw-dropping achievements. So how can boards empower their directors in terms of board and director evaluations. More sophisticated directors are increasingly demanding more from their board and individual director evaluation processes. Beverly Behan, who routinely works with boards in the S&P1500, Fortune 500 and other public company boards in the US, Canada and around the world, will lead a discussion on the latest innovations in board and director evaluations.
Key Subjects include:
Beverly Behan has worked with over 175 Boards of Directors over the past twenty years, ranging from recent IPOs to the Fortune 500 - from New York and Toronto to Bogota, Kuala Lumpur and Tel Aviv. Her clients are typically boards that want to get to the top of their game – and stay there. While she has “never met a board she couldn’t make even better”, this can range from initiatives primarily designed to keep a great board vibrant to more significant changes designed to very tangibly take a board “from good to great”.
Beverly’s work in board and director evaluations dates to 1996, when she conducted the first individual director evaluation ever conducted by a major North American company board, the Bank of Montreal. Since that time, she’s undertaken this work for dozens of boards around the world, including one of the largest conglomerates in Southeast Asia, a major global company based in the Middle East, large family controlled companies in Latin America and dozens of boards of public and private companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. She also authored “Board and Director Evaluations in the 21st Century” for the Conference Board of Canada (April, 2015) and subsequently released a US version which was featured on the Nasdaq’s website and in The Corporate Board magazine.
For the past 5 years, a significant part of her consulting practice has also involved working with boards to design an effective CEO succession planning process, arguably the board’s single most important decision. She also regularly works with companies looking to redesign their board composition either due to a change in strategic direction, an IPO or other factors and with new CEOs seeking to establish a highly constructive working relationship with their board.
Beverly’s last book “Great Companies Deserve Great Boards: A CEO’s Guide to the Boardroom” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) was named Governance Book of the Year in the United States by Directors & Boards magazine and ranked #1 for 4 weeks on the Globe & Mail’s business best-seller list. She has also been quoted as an expert in corporate governance and board effectiveness by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CBS Marketwatch, The Times of London and many other publications. She served as a regular columnist for Bloomberg BusinessWeek on board related issues (“The Boardroom”) from 2007-2011 and a columnist for LISTED (The Toronto Stock Exchange magazine) from 2014 -2017.
Beverly is a native of Canada who has dual US citizenship and resides in New York City.
Andrew Blott was named Chairman of the Board of Service Inspired Restaurants (SIR) in 2019. SIR is a privately-held Canadian restaurant chain that includes the brands Jack Astor’s, Scaddabush and Reds. The company has a board of 10 – comprised of 7 long-standing directors, including Chief Executive Officer and company founder, Peter Fowler, and 3 new directors joining the board in 2020. As Chairman, Andrew successfully led the search for SIR’s three new board members and accomplished this within 6 months of the board deciding to recruit - and agreeing on director recruitment priorities - the outcome of a comprehensive board evaluation process undertaken in 2019.
Andrew also serves as a director of Apache Industrial Services (an industry leading US industrial services provider), Skyway Canada Limited (an industry leading Canadian scaffolding services provider), Lone Start Texas Grill (a Texas-themed Canadian restaurant chain) and RailCrew Xpress (an industry leading provider of logistics services to the US Class One railways).
Andrew is a partner in Quantum Capital which he founded in 2004 and has led the firm’s investments in Apache, Skyway, RailCrew Xpress and Don Best Sports. Previously, he was financial advisor on behalf of Borealis Capital (now OMERS infrastructure) to value, structure and underwrite Canada’s first and second “Public-to-Private Partnership (P3)” healthcare initiatives. Earlier in his career, Andrew spent 10 years on Wall Street originating and structuring leveraged buyouts, M&A and leveraged finance transactions at firms including Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith Barney, Banc of America Securities and CIBC World Markets.
He is a member of the Maple Leaf Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.
Please note this is a green event - presentation packages will not be handed out. Only electronic copies will be emailed prior to the event.
GPC Course cancelation Policy
Individual Refund & Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing a minimum 7 days prior to the date of the event to be eligible for a refund or a credit. All refunds or credits are subject to a $50 administration fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after the minimum 7 days timeframe. If you register for an event and do not attend, or cancel within 7 days of the event, you are liable for the full event fee. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another individual. Note, if there are any fee differences associated with a substitution registration type (example: member versus non-member pricing), the price differential would be credited or charged accordingly. All refunds and cancellation requests should be emailed to events@gpcanada.org.
The Foundations of Governance Course consists of two and a half days covering key areas of governance, which include: the role of the governance professional, director management, advising the board, board dynamics, effectiveness, culture, relationships and conflicts.
Within each of these areas, practitioners in governance will take a thorough look at central elements of practice and how to navigate difficult situations, apply best practices and important tools in the day to day running of a governance office. This course is a comprehensive view of the key foundations and practice of governance, and essential for professionals both seasoned and new to the role.
This session sets out the expectations and growing role and responsibilities of the Governance Professional. It will examine the legal commonalities and differences among various kinds of organizations and how they impact oversight, strategic and operational functions.
Participants will explore the following topics in depth:
The purpose of the session is to provide the tools for developing critical processes to enhance Board effectiveness from before directors join the Board, through their tenure and until they leave – with the objective of improving the Board’s decision-making processes
Boardroom dynamics have a significant yet largely unrecognized impact on good governance. The governance professional has a critical role in supporting their board in fostering a more conducive boardroom culture by mastering the required soft skills to do so.
Heather Laxton, Chief Governance Officer & Corporate Secretary, Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (bio)
John Dinner, President, John T. Dinner Board Governance Services (bio)
This Event is one of three courses that make up the full GPC-EP education program and which leads to the GPC.D (Governance Professionals of Canada Designation).
You have the option to register and attend this event without committing to the full Education program, however, you will not be eligible to the professional designation (GPC.D), unless you complete all 3 modules as well as their individual exams and the final evaluation.
Participants who are registered for the Education program (GPC-EP) will be required to write an exam after the completion of this module.
If you wish to enroll in the entire designation program to obtain the GPC.D designation (and save on the cost of the entire program), you can change your registration here: Education program on this link.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
If canceling the program in its entirety outside of 2 months prior to taking your first course, the program fee will be refunded with a cancellation penalty of $500. If canceling the program within 3 weeks of taking your first course, the program fee will be refunded with a cancellation penalty of $1,000. If cancellation occurs during or after the first module has been started, there will be no further refunds. Companies or individuals may transfer their registration to another individual only if cancellation occurs prior to taking the first course only or individuals may be able to transfer their registration to another individual only if cancellation occurs prior to taking the first of the 3 courses only. All cancellations or transfer requests must be received by email to education@gpcanada.org.
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The purpose of the session is to provide the introductory basics, with selected corresponding tools, to introduce the Governance Professional to two key elements of Risk Management.
In the session, you will understand the range of your potential role in board strategy and to gain skills to map out your role with your board.
This session will equip governance professionals to ensure boards have effective practices in sustainability oversight.
Sustainability drivers, trends, risks and opportunities for organizational success
Board best practices in sustainability oversight and the role of the governance professional
The purpose of this session will be t provide an overview of annual financial reporting cycle.
Financial decision making – including financing decisions, investment decisions, liquidity and working capital decisions and dividend decisions (liquidity test etc.)
How finance touches the various functional groups in the organization, HR, IT etc.
Key performance indicators
A deep dive on internal auditing - exploring the work of internal audit and how it can benefit the organization
MD&A (requirement for Boards to review, general disclosure principles)
Overview on ratio and financial analysis - how it can be used to monitor performance/liquidity especially when compared to prior periods
Overview on materiality
New auditor's report – significant
The purpose of this course is to ensure that governance professionals provide effective governance in their organization. This cannot exist unless Board members fulfil their roles and responsibilities with the highest standards of conduct.
Participants will explore the following key points in depth:
Ethics, Dignity and Loyalty
Practical Tools
Code of Conduct
Whistleblower Policies and Programs
Conflicts of Interest
Entertainment, Gifts, Preferential Treatment
Implementation Skills: Case Studies
* Goverance Professionals of Canada (GPC) reserves the right to switch sessions, change start/end times and change faculty.
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Individual Refund & Cancellation Policy Cancellations must be received in writing a minimum 7 days prior to the date of the event to be eligible for a refund or a credit. All refunds or credits are subject to a $50 administration fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after the minimum 7 days timeframe. If you register for an event and do not attend, or cancel within 7 days of the event, you are liable for the full event fee. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another individual. Note, if there are any fee differences associated with a substitution registration type (example: member versus non-member pricing), the price differential would be credited or charged accordingly. All refunds and cancellation requests should be emailed to events@gpcanada.org.
Presenter: Janis Riven, BCL, LLB, MBA, FCIS, Acc.Dir, Principal, governance and compliance solutions, Adjunct Professor, John Molson School of Business
The purpose of the session is to provide the tools for holding successful meetings – the ultimate decision-making process for all organizations including:
The purpose of this module is to help give you an understanding of business finance, and the role of the Board, Audit Committee, Auditors and the Governance Professional in the preparation, presentation and analysis of financial information.
Participants will develop an understanding with respect to:
Committee focus and work
The purpose of the session is to provide the introductory basics, with selected corresponding tools, to introduce the Governance Professional to two key elements of Risk Management:
Governing Principles Best Practices Practical Tools Implementation Skill
Governing Principles Best Practices Practical Tools Implementation Skills
If canceling the program within 3 weeks of taking your first course, the program fee will be refunded with a cancellation penalty of $1,000. If cancellation occurs during or after the first module has been started, there will be no further refunds. Companies or individuals may transfer their registration to another individual only if cancellation occurs prior to taking the first course only or individuals may be able to transfer their registration to another individual only if cancellation occurs prior to taking the first of the 3 courses only. All cancellations or transfer requests must be received by email to education@gpcanada.org.
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