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4 weeks ago | lexpert.ca | Tim Wilbur

Before she became a consultant helping universities achieve more strategic and effective governance, Cheryl Foy was general counsel and university secretary at Ontario Tech University, operating at the intersection of the legal department and institutional governance. During these years embedded in the machinery of academia, she saw an alarming governance disconnect – not just among board members but within the institution itself.

1 month ago | lexpert.ca | Tim Wilbur

As in-house legal departments take on a more strategic role in shaping the direction of Canadian business, Paula Pépin is working to redefine what it means to lead from the general counsel’s chair. A former GC turned executive coach, Pépin is the founder of The GC Collective – an organization that’s helping legal leaders across the country evolve from legal advisors to influential business partners.

1 month ago | lexpert.ca | Tim Wilbur

Governance, digital tools, and proactive thinking drive success in the regulated spaces Lydia de Guzman didn’t plan to spend the better part of her legal career at Manulife. In fact, she told her first interviewer that her role there might be short-lived. He hired her anyway. That supposed four-week stint turned into a decade – and counting.

1 month ago | lexpert.ca | Tim Wilbur

Dina Maxwell’s entry into privacy law started in a newsroom, not a boardroom. After graduating from Harvard University and completing her first year of law school at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, she returned home to New Brunswick to work for the summer as a beat reporter for the Telegraph-Journal. One of her early assignments sent her into what many would consider dry territory: a government consultation on access to information legislation.

1 month ago | lexpert.ca | Jacqueline So

Report indicated that racialized employees struggle to advance in their careers Unconscious bias informs the main challenge in hiring decisions for many employers, according to an employment equity audit report published by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. According to the audit conducted with 18 randomly chosen employers, 50 percent indicated that hiring managers or other authority figures favored candidates with ethnic or other similarities.