Events
Canada’s Best Private Boards 2025 Summit
Omni King Edward Hotel
Crystal Ballroom (17th floor)
37 King St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1E9
Join us for the second annual Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit, where we’re taking it up a notch. This full day event is packed with governance best practices and the sharing of personal stories of transformational board experiences in private companies. We’ll cap off the evening with a stand-up cocktail where the 2025 winners will be celebrated.
This year, we’re bringing you more winners, more stories, and more insights – a must-attend event for anyone passionate about private company governance.
How to Write a Winning Submission to Canada’s Best Private Boards
Are you preparing a submission for the Canada’s Best Private Boards program? Join us for our LinkedIn Live Event where we’ll walk you through the key elements of a strong submission and answer any questions you may have about the process.
This session is designed to help submitting boards and board members craft compelling written submissions that highlight storytelling, leadership, and impact. We’ll share best practices, insights from the inaugural 2024 winners, and key considerations to ensure your submission stands out.
Whether you're submitting in 2025, or just want to learn more about performance-driving private company boards, this session is for you!
Due Diligence is More Than Financial: Assess Leadership Talent and Culture Pre-Transaction to Minimize Risk and Drive ROI
In the post-transaction phase, investors can sometimes be surprised and disappointed to learn about people issues facing the target company. Although financial due diligence might alert investors to some of these challenges, other leadership and culture problems surface post-transaction. When serious enough, these issues can impact the ROI.
By doing a deep dive pre-transaction on leadership talent and culture, investors can instead start their relationship post-transaction feeling more confident.
Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards
Join us on November 6th, 2024 at the Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards. You’ll be amongst other founders, leaders, advisory board members and directors of mid-market family businesses, investor-backed companies and employee-owned firms.
Hear how the winning organizations started from very little governance, incrementally growing either their advisory or fiduciary boards into key leadership arms of the business, driving strategy in everything from succession planning to people, market and product.
Step Outside Your Echo Chamber: How Independent Directors Drive the Performance of Private Companies (Webinar)
Private company founders are sometimes allergic to the idea of formal governance, let alone the notion of bringing someone in “from the outside”…
But did you know reluctance to embrace external perspectives – especially on a board – not only increases risk but might also be holding back organizational performance?
Join our webinar, “Step Outside Your Echo Chamber: How Independent Directors Drive the Performance of Private Companies", to learn how to find, compensate and integrate independents, and how having external perspectives helps minimize risk and drive growth.