About the Peer Group
This supportive online peer group will help you learn with other new Board Chairs about best and emerging practices of chairing a board, including: strengthening board culture and cohesion; tackling complex issues and engaging in difficult conversations; examining issues and problems; partnering with your organization’s chief executive; and more.
Benefits
- Better position yourself to navigate board leadership challenges and help achieve strategic goals.
- Identify best practices and opportunities to drive greater organizational impact.
- Share resources and network with chairs from diverse organizations.
- Exchange ideas and gain peer support in a confidential environment with a small group size.
12:30 – 2:00 pm EST
First Thursday of every other month ( April, June, August, October, December, February)
Maximum 10 members facilitated by experienced Capacity Canada Executives-in-Residence
$100 for 6 sessions
Application Form!
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Our Team
Jennifer King
Executive in Residence
Jennifer is a social impact leader with more than 20 years of programmatic leadership experience in Canada, South Asia, Nicaragua, and Africa. She has managed complex initiatives in public, private, philanthropic and community sectors and has advised networks, senior leaders, funds, entrepreneurs, and SMEs on growth that generates social and environmental impact. Jennifer is passionate about collaborative systems change models that meet the needs of underserved communities.
Jennifer has held executive leadership positions in several social impact organizations and has experience working with boards as both an Executive Director and as a Board Chair. She is experienced in community engagement, program design and partnership development, blended finance, evaluation and storytelling, and gender equality and social inclusion. Jennifer is a published photographer and has worked as a freelance writer and marketing and communications professional.
Don McDermott
Executive in Residence
Don McDermott has over 40 years of leadership experience in the Ontario health and social services sectors. He is the former CEO of a number of health care organizations with responsibility for acute and long term care services, addictions and mental health, community rehab and social work programs. Don has supported or served on more than twenty not-for-profit and charity boards. As a consultant, using many examples from his experience, he works with organizations’ boards and leaders to clarify their missions, identify their values and vision, and achieve their goals through board education, facilitated strategic planning retreats, and various board and CEO mentoring processes.
Don is Executive-in-Residence with Capacity Canada and is a past chair for the Guelph Community Health Centre.
Don is a certified Life and Executive Coach, has obtained certification in Interest Based Mediation and has taken Indigenous Cultural Safety training with SAN’YAS and the Provincial Health Services Authority, B.C.
Don and his wife Joan are principal consultants with BoardSupport.ca.
Let’s start the conversation.
Thank you for your interest in Board Chair Peer Group! We hope you found answers to any questions you might have had while visiting this page.
Please contact Jennifer King or Don McDermott if you have any questions.
