In this section, you find a collection of good practices from organizations and businesses that have successfully diversified their leadership.
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Why diverse leadership matters
Just released: July 2010 DiverseCity newsletter. Diversity in leadership has benefits in the workplace, in the boardroom and in the broader society.
TD Bank Financial Group
Group mentoring is a key development strategy employed by TD to ensure that there is opportunity for upward mobility for visible minority employees.
Scotiabank
According to Naomi Shaw, VP of Leadership, sustainable revenue growth and leadership are two key goals for Scotiabank. “You can’t have one without the other.”
United Way of Toronto
It isn’t about mere representation but about getting the best out of their leaders.
The City of Toronto
According to City Councillor Adam Vaughan diversity is the city that we are today. It’s what we encounter every day.
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Leadership positions – both staff and volunteer – are in high demand at the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario’s largest grantmaking foundation.
Dixon Hall
At Dixon Hall, the Regent Park community’s multi-service agency, diversity in the makeup of their board of directors is a given. Eighty percent of the neighbourhood comprises visible minorities speaking Bengali, Tamil, Vietnamese, Chinese, Somali, Spanish and French. Ensuring the board reflects this diversity is engrained in their recruitment strategies used over the past 20 years or more.
KPMG
Leadership at professional services firm KPMG resides in the pool of 425-450 partners who are both the public face for the firm and the top earners. Michael Bach, its national director of diversity and inclusion explains how history is their biggest obstacle to ensuring that this leadership reflects the overall firm. Traditionally male and Caucasian dominated, he says, “we’ve had to play catch up.”
YMCA of Greater Toronto
“When you’re almost 160 years old,” says Scott Haldane, the YMCA of Greater Toronto’s President & CEO, “the natural tendency is to go back to the same old well as you move forward.” This had always worked in the past but was no longer serving the organization whose community had changed around it.
Harbourfront Centre
Harbourfront collaborates with more than 450 community-based organizations to present arts, culture, education and recreation events and activities at their ten-acre lakeside venue. They used these connections to build a board that would more closely reflect the racial and ethnic demographic of the Greater Toronto Area and Canada.
