Events.
Canada’s Best Private Boards 2026 Summit and Awards
Date and time are subject to change as details for the 2026 Summit and Awards are currently in development.
Date, venue, program agenda, speakers and event themes will be announced soon. What won’t change is the purpose: a day dedicated to powerful stories of transformational leadership in private company governance. Join us as program winners, nominees and their board members, along with a community of private company leadership teams, investors, and professional service providers gather to learn and connect with their peers, and to be a part of our growing ecosystem of individuals who support Canada’s private sector.
Check back for updates as we finalize the details for 2026. We look forward to welcoming you to another inspiring year.
Canada’s Best Private Boards 2025 Summit And Awards
Powerful stories of transformational leadership in private company governance.
Join us for the second annual Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards, where we’re taking it up a notch.
This is a must-attend event for anyone passionate about private company leadership and governance.
This year’s theme is courage: the courage to add a meaningful board to your organization, the courage to be a trailblazer and to set a pace in governance for others to follow, the courage to be vulnerable and transparent as a leader, and the courage to ask tough questions.
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.
Event: How to Write a Winning Submission to Canada's Best Private Boards
Date: April 9, 2025
Time: 2pm EST
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 2024 Summit and Awards
Governance can take your private company to the next level of performance.
Don’t believe us? Hear it from the winners themselves.
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 these 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.
If you have been trying to figure out how governance can take your private company to the next level this is your chance to learn from the best.
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.
Co-hosts Jennifer Mondoux and Nolan Holmes will share best practices gleaned from the Canada’s Best Private Boards program.
Don’t miss out! Register today.