Skip to main content



Ontario at last moving towards board diversity

It took Canada’s first female and openly gay Premier, Kathleen Wynne, less than three months to express strong support for gender diversity on corporate boards (see page 291 of the Ontario budget, and a radio interview earlier this week with …


Diversifying Corporate Boards ~ How to Do It

There is a movement to diversify boards of directors in almost all industrial democracies as a result of the financial crisis. It has been termed “the number one issue in corporate governance.” Diversity extends beyond women to include ethnicity, age …




Eight Traps of Boardroom Diversity

There are myths and vested interests in the movement towards boardroom diversity now underway in several countries. In this first of two blog posts, I consider the “traps” and embedded myths. In the second blog post to follow, in about …