The Canada Women's Forum hosts Leadership Conference
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| The Canada Women's Forum conducted a Leadership Conference in Toronto in June that focused on women and corporate governance, appointing qualified women to corporate boards, corporate governance for multinationals, women mentoring women, effective communications and gender differences in negotiations. The two-day program featured Barbara Hackman Franklin, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and member of the Washington, DC Forum - a major force in corporate governance as well as two-time Emmy Award winner Sonya Hamlin, member of the New York Forum, on how to talk so that people listen. Canadian illuminaries included Gail Cook-Bennett, Ph.D., chair, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Peter J. Dey, senior advisor, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and chairman & managing director, Morgan Stanley Canada Ltd; Céline Hervieux-Payette, Canada Senator and legal counsel, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP of Montréal; Marcelo Mackinlay, chairman, Institute of Corporate Directors and partner, TMP Worldwide Executive Search; Chuck Hantho, chairman, Dofasco Inc., chairman, Camco Inc. and chairman, Hamilton Utilities Corporation; Guylaine Saucier, former chair, Board of Directors of CBC/Radio Canada and chair, Joint Committee on Corporate Governance, Toronto Stock Exchange; Mary-Ann Bell, current Fellow, IWF Leadership Foundation and vice-president-Customer Service, Bell Québec; Paule Dore, executive vice-president Corporate Affairs, CGI and mentor in the Foundation Fellows Program; Fran Streets, immediate past president, IWF Leadership Foundation; and Hannah C. Riley, doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School with dissertation on gender as a social phenomenon in negotiation performance. Chaired by Agnes Di Leonardi, vice-president, legal and general counsel and corporate secretary, Ford Credit Canada Ltd and president IWF Canada, the program attracted impressive corporate support and press coverage for IWF Canada, the International Women's Forum and its Leadership Foundation.
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