In this episode, host Russell Evans sits down with Catherine McCall, Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance. This episode explores how organizations can champion good governance in Canada, including various strategies to improve ESG factors, how to empower employees, and where to start if governance is a new priority.
After this episode, you’ll learn:
- The value of prioritizing ‘good governance’;
- How any organization across Canada can leverage governance to impact their bottom-line (regardless of having a Board involved or not!);
- How organizations are leveraging collective power to empower their stakeholders, including their employees;
- Best practices for leaders who are looking to improve their approach to ESG factors
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Biography
Catherine McCall
Catherine McCall is the Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance. Representing Canada’s leading institutional investors, which collectively manage assets of approximately CAD $5 trillion, the Coalition’s mandate is to improve corporate governance, including as it relates to environmental and social matters, at Canadian public companies and to assist institutional investors in meeting their stewardship responsibilities. CCGG also engages in policy development and works toward the enhancement of the regulatory environment to best align the interests of boards and management with those of their investors. As Executive Director, Catherine is responsible, together with the Board of Directors, for setting the strategy of the organization, leading policy development, overseeing regulatory advocacy and participating in CCGG’s board engagement program. She is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Continuous Disclosure Advisory Committee and Chair of the International Corporate Governance Network’s Global Stewardship Committee. Catherine has the ICD.D designation.