Upcoming events.
Canada’s Best Private Boards 2025 Summit
Omni King Edward Hotel
Crystal Ballroom (17th floor)
37 King St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1E9
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.
Program winners, nominees and their board members, along with a community of private company leadership teams, investors, and professional service providers will be gathering to learn from and connect with their peers, and to join our ecosystem of individuals who support Canada’s private sector.
We’ll cap off the day with a stand-up cocktail where the 2025 winners will be celebrated.
This summit is about powerful stories of transformational leadership in private company governance. If you have been trying to figure out how governance can take your private company to the next level, or, how you can have transformational impact as a board member inside of a private company, this is your chance to learn from the best.
Stay tuned for the detailed agenda. In the meantime, get your early-bird tickets now as this event is sure to sell out.
When, Why and How: The Critical Importance of CEO and Leadership Team Assessment
Struggling with how to assess a CEO or leadership team? You're not alone.
When is the right time to evaluate leadership?
What does the process actually look like?
What outcomes should you expect?
Join us for a LinkedIn Live Event on Thursday, July 17, 2025, at 12 PM EST as we unpack these critical questions and more.
In this session, we will explore:
Timing: How to recognize when it’s time for an assessment
Tools & Methodologies: What frameworks and approaches work best
Outcomes: What actionable insights and recommendations you should expect
Whether you're a board chair evaluating your CEO, a founder navigating new growth stages, or part of an investment team conducting due diligence, this session will equip you with the clarity and practical tools you need to make informed, confident decisions.
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.