WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5, ST. ANDREW’S CLUB
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.       DINNER Discussion Roundtables: Global Financial Turbulence
                                         and Corporate Governance: Response and Responsibilities
                                         
                                         Hosts:
                                         Carol Hansell, Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
                                         Sheryl Kennedy, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6, ST. ANDREW’S CLUB
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.       COLLOQUIUM

                                         Moderators:
                                         Irene Natividad, Chair, Corporate Women Directors International
                                         Beverly Topping, President & CEO, Institute of Corporate
                                                                     Directors

                                         MARKET OPENS at the Toronto Stock Exchange

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.     Continental Breakfast
 
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.   SESSION 1: Understanding the Corporate Meltdown
 
                                         Kathleen O’Neill, Director, TSX
                                         Thomas Connell, Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s
                                         Terry Savage, Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NYSE)
 
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.     LUNCH: Understanding the Corporate Meltdown: CEO
                                         Perspective
 
                                         Micheline Bouchard, Former CEO Motorola, Director, TELUS
                                         James Arnett, Former CEO Molson Inc., Counsel for Fraser Milner 
                                                                Casgrain, LLP
 
 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.      SESSION 2: C-Suite Challenge and Change:
                                         Compensation, Succession and Retention
 
                                         Ken Hugessen (Moderator), President, Hugessen Consulting Inc.
                                         Beverly Behan, Managing Director, Hay Group
                                         Spencer Lanthier, Director, Ellis-Don Inc., Torstar Corporation, TSX
 
2:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.       SESSION 3: How Does Corporate Canada Become More
                                         Competitive - and What is the Board’s Role?

                                         Donna Soble Kaufman (Moderator), Director, BCE
                                         David Beatty, Former Managing Director,
                                         Canadian Coalition for Good Governance
                                         Lynton Red Wilson, Chair, Competition Policy Review Panel
                                         Melanie Aitken, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Competition Bureau
                                     
  

Meet
the Presenters

Carol Hansell

Sheryl Kennedy

Irene Natividad

Beverly Topping

CWDI Report :

Impact of Women CEOs
on Women's Access to Corporate Board Seats
and the C-Suite

Ms. Irene Natividad
CWDI Co-Chair

“These findings answer the question of whether it matters if a woman is in charge,” states CWDI Chair Irene Natividad.  “Clearly women CEOs are far more likely to bring in other women to corporate leadership roles.  It is unfortunate, however, that there are so few of them in both the US and Canada,” she adds.

Key Findings from 2008 Report
 
More CWDI Reports

Kathleen O’Neill

Thomas Connell

Terry Savage

Micheline Bouchard

James Arnett

Ken Hugessen

Beverly Behan

Spencer Lanthier

Donna Soble Kaufman

David Beatty

Lynton Red Wilson

Melanie Aitken