Please click on the presentation titles to download the PowerPoint show.

Maintaining Public Confidence through Good Governance
Deanna Williams, Registrar, Ontario College of Pharmacists

• Balancing competing interests - public's right to know, practitioner's right to due process
  
• Issues of reputation and risk
  
• Training of board/council members re: the governance role
  

Strategic Issues versus Tactical Issues
Caroline MacIsaac-Power, Registrar, College of Opticians of Ontario

• How do we get what we need? How do we go where we need to go?
  
• How do we make the best of what we have?
  
• Managing change

Optimizing the Board / Staff Relationship
Claudia Newman, NCA Associates

• Defining and respecting boundaries
  
• Governance versus management ("separation of Church and State")
  

Volunteer Boards/Councils – Is There a Better Way?
Bruce Matthews, Deputy Registrar, Regulatory Compliance, Real Estate Council of Ontario

• Recruitment issues
  
• Diversity issues
  
• Characteristics of a good board/council candidate

Workshop session topics may include:

• The role of laypeople on boards/councils
  
• Dealing with large boards/council - Does size matter?
  
• Dealing with the difficult board/council member
  
• Dealing with the "constituency" mindset
  
• What role should member/registrant interests play in governance?
  
• Regulating strategically