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- Paul McCullough Expands Role at MacKay CEO Forums as Forum Chair and Strategic Advisor
- Kerry Brown Expands Role at MacKay CEO Forums as Strategic Advisor – Chair Recruiting
- How Businesses are Leveraging AI for their Strategic Advantage: 9 Key Takeaways from ProserveIT and Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Sessions
- Mike Joseph joins MacKay CEO Forums as Strategic Advisor
- Navigating Trust: The Evolving Role of CEOs
- Announcing National Regional Director Team
- Diana Swain joins MacKay CEO Forums as Strategic Advisor and Forum Chair
- ‘How business can be a force for good’, By Nancy MacKay & David Redfern
- MacKay CEO Forums Announces New Ownership Structure
- Navigating Complexity: A Deep Dive into Canada’s Economic Indicators with RBC’s Assistant Chief Economist, Cynthia Leach
- Paul McCullough Joins MacKay CEO Forums as a Non-Executive Strategic Advisor
- ProServe IT Podcast: EDIB Initiatives and the Modern CEO with Nancy MacKay
- MacKay Lifetime Member Award Recipient: Paul McCullough, Interim President & Chief Executive Officer of BCIT
- The Power of Truth in an Age of Disinformation: What CEOs Need to Know
- Nominations Open: Waterstone MacKay Canada’s Most Admired™ CEO Social Purpose Innovator Award
- Leading Through Recession with Ram Charan + Dr. Henryk Krajewski
- MacKay CEO Forums Welcomes Dave Dinesen as New Chief Operating Officer
- MacKay CEO Forums profiled in “Business in Edmonton” magazine
- MacKay CEO Forums Begins Search For New CEO
- New Virtual 90-day CEO Peer Group
- Yellow Point Partners with MacKay CEO Forums
- MacKay CEO Forums Earns B Corporation Certification
- Innovation and Technology Headline the EDGE Summit – Expert Speakers including Keynote from Peter Diamandis via Hologram
- MacKay CEO Forums Reaches 1,000 Member Milestone
- 2017 BC CEO Award Winners Announced
- Keeping up with Exponential Change
- 2016 BC CEO Award Winners Announced
- Nancy MacKay interviewed by Kirk Lapointe, Roundhouse Radio, July 2016
- 81 members win Canada’s Best Managed Company honours for 2015
- Announcing alliance with Copeman Healthcare and Medisys Canada
Events
- Genwell Weekend - September 20th-22nd, 2024
- Copilot Demo for Human Resource Teams
- Copilot Demo for Project Management Teams
- Waterstone MacKay Canada’s Most Admired™ Vancouver Fall Summit
- 2024 WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP SERIES - Making Work-Life Balance a Reality
- LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - Propel Your Business with Strategies from the World’s Top Minds
- 5th ANNUAL PE-BACKED LEADERSHIP SUMMIT - DRIVING VALUE IN 2025
- 2024 WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP SERIES - Mastering the Art of Negotiation
- A CHIEF EXECUTIVE MASTERCLASS - Leading With Impact Featuring John Maxwell
- MANUFACTURING M&A DEALMAKERS FORUM
- Business Transitions Forum - Vancouver
- Business Transitions Forum - Winnipeg
- Time Mastery Masterclass with Kim Moody (Virtual Event)
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- Linda Kenny, CEO, KidsAbility Centre for Child Development
- Kari Yuers, CEO, Kryton International
- Ken Chaun, Kal Tire
- Alex Twells - Atlantic Cultivation
- Steve Cox - Heritage Office Furnishings
- Scott Brown - Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing Ltd.
- Bob MacDonald - 2019 EDGE Summit
- Kevin Brady - 2019 EDGE Summit
- Eric Sugar - 2019 EDGE Summit
- Brian McCauley - 2019 EDGE Summit
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Videos
- What is a MacKay Forum Chair?
- Our Members tell us their “Why” they are a part of MCF
- MacKay CEO Forums - Value Proposition
- Membership Overview
- MacKay CEO Forums - Meaningful Connections
- MacKay CEO Forums - Inspiring
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- CEO Value Proposition
- CEO Time Mastery
- Waterstone Human Capital Partner Spotlight
- Diversity & Heart
- TEST - WEBINAR VIDEO
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Mike Star
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Rand Cowell
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Dave Ancrum
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Jennifer Cho
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Luke O'Hare
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Robert Pratt
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Rob Mitchell
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: David Labistour
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Diane Dupuis
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Jeff Jamieson
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Tony Quo Vadis
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: Ute Preusse
- MacKay CEO Forums Testimonial: W. Scott Brown
- EDGE Experience 2.0
- 2019 EDGE Summit Highlight Reel
- Getting Started as a MacKay CEO Forums Chair
- Why Become a MacKay CEO Forums Chair?
- EDGE Summit Highlight Reel
- EDGE Summit 2018
- CEO Time Mastery
- Nancy Welcome Video
- Exponential Leadership Quiz
- Don Bialik
- How to be a Game Changer in your Industry
- Member Testimonials
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- Eric Berke
- Jean-Pierre Leblanc
- Kathy Kinloch
- Bill Tucker
Tipsheets
- Achieving Time Mastery: Evaluate your Wheel of Life, Develop a 90-day plan
- 13 Habits of Highly Successful and Effective CEOs
- How to Avoid Procrastination and Perfectionism
- Time Mastery: How to Build on Strengths to Accelerate Results
- The Secrets of Outstanding Teams
- How to Develop Top Talent to Avoid a Succession Crisis
- Succession Planning Objectives, Principles, and Definitions
- How to Develop Your Strategy to Accelerate Business Results
- Building a Leadership Legacy
- Building Relationships: Who is on Your Top 20 List?
- Getting the most from your Peer Group Experience
- How to Accelerate Change
- Accelerate Results: People and Culture Strategies for CEOs and Executive
- How to Have Crucial Conversations
- Gender Leadership
- How to Bust Silos to Accelerate Results
- How to Foster Healthy Conflict
- How to Get People to Change Their Behaviours
- Leading by Influence
- Leading Change Effectively
- Persuasion
- You Can Always Get What you Want
- Generation Clashes
- 5 Key Strategies to Revitalize Your Company
- How to Master Your Emotions
- How to Speak Like a CEO
- How to Start Success Behaviours and Stop Derailment Behaviours to Accelerate Results
- How to Use Power Effectively
- Leading by Physiology: How to Use Nonverbal Communication to Influence Others
- Self-Esteem: How to Create Certainty and Achieve Peak Performance
- Setting Boundaries: How to Build Trust and Honour Commitments
- Six Strategies to Keep You Engaged at Work
- Techniques for Execution: Getting the Right Things Done
- The Power of Coaching: How to Accelerate Performance Using a Coaching Approach
- Today's CEO: How to Measure, Manage, and Accelerate Performance
- 11 Topics and Techniques for Getting Buy-in from Your Boss, Peers, and Team
- What Coaching Can Do For You
- CEO-Board Dynamics
- Top 10 Meeting Effectiveness Tips and Techniques
- Creating a Culture of Innovation
- How to Retain Top Talent in a Dismal Economy
- The Talent Advantage: Six Strategies to Win the War for Talent
- Winning the War for Talent in a Dismal Economy
Chairs
- Test
- Noelle Leemburg
- W. Scott Brown
- Paul McCullough
- Diana Swain
- Pierre Lebel
- Vanessa Judelman
- Brent Cantelon
- Ryan Berrecloth
- Kim Moody
- Darcy Morgan
- Eileen Kenkel
- Nancy MacKay
- Ron Monteiro
- Michael Ehling
- Dean Michelin
- Laura Vaughan
- James Playford
- Gerard McInnis
- Kim Chernecki
- Larry Cooper
- Colin Cox
- Manoj Raheja
- Gary Herman
- Tim Dumas
- Richard Boyer
- Vincent Bryant
- Bernie Kollman
- Katie Bennett
- Steve Foran
- Nico Human
- Ross Montagano
- Tim Magwood
- Kerry Brown
- Joy Playford
- Dr. Larry Ohlhauser
- Murray Neilson
- Peter Mogan
- Natalie Michael
- Henryk Krajewski
- Tony Kerekes
- Mike Joseph
- Doug Brownridge
- Anne Bermingham
- Oliver Baezner
Podcasts
- Future-Proofing Teams and Personal Journeys
- We Control Our Health: A Conversation with Mike Kessel, CEO & President of Cleveland Clinic Canada
- CEOs and Leaders need to take care of their health
- Formula for Success in Life and Leadership
- How do you know that you are putting in the work?
- Breaking Cycles and Building Futures through Wealth Mastery
- How to overcome difficult obstacles?
- Inspiring others to follow you and vice versa
- Navigating Global Markets without Borders and Buzzwords
- How do you get out of difficult situations and raise your game?
- Diana Swain's Decades in the Headlines
- The Entrepreneurial Journey
- How do you show care towards others?
- How do you get others to achieve their goals?
- How do you plan for the future financially?
- How do you master your health?
- How do you level up in your career?
- How do you capture and share a compelling story as a leader?
- How do you get inspired?
- How do you know that the best is yet to come?
- How do you drive purpose and impact every day while flexing your own style?
- Nancy MacKay's Global Calling for Inspirational Leaders
- How to be a Champion for Women - A SupportHER
- How to Park Your Ego through Shared Experiences
- Digital Transformation in a Hybrid World at Aviso
- Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
- The Future of Work
- The Future of Executive Health
- Lessons Learned on How to Be an Effective Board Chair
- Unexpected CEO Health Challenges -Are you Ready for Travel?
- The 7 Biggest Life Purpose Mistakes CEOs Make
- BDC Insights on The Five Trends that will Reshape the Recovery in Canada
- How to End the Great Resignation
- How Chefs, Musicians, Athletes and CEOs Can Give Back to Canadian Youth
- How to Avoid Founderitis
- Your CEO Legacy is Now
- CEO Succession: Are you Ready for Transition?
- Fractional CFOs - Why "Rent a Financial Guru" works
- The Future of a Healthy Hybrid Workplace
- Futureproofing Your Business in Uncertain Times
- Why Business Owners Should Talk to Their Kids about Money
- Top Talent Liquidity-The Post Pandemic Reality
- 10 Techniques for Managing Change in a Hybrid World
- Joy Farming-Cultivating Joy to Excel at Business and Life
- 3 Keys to Developing a Winning Strategy
- What the heck is a CEO Health Coach?
- Lessons from a CEO Whisperer with Nancy MacKay
- Fractional CTOs: Why “Rent an IT Guru” Works
- Key Challenges for Ultra High Net Worth Families
- From optimism to opportunity: Exploring the results of PwC’s 24th Annual Global CEO Survey
- Grit + Productivity Tools = Accelerated Employee Performance
- Innovation Canada - Game Changing Support for Entrepreneurs
- What Advisory Boards need to know about CEO Succession
- Global Family Business Optimism and the Top 3 CEO Priorities
- The Path Forward: What Lies Ahead for Canadian Business Owners?
- Cybersecurity in 2021: New Global Threats and New Leading-Edge Technologies
- You can Change the World through your Business
- It’s Never too Late to Be Healthy
- CEO Transitions + How to Get on Private Company Advisory Boards
- 10 Extra Things CEOs are Doing to Avoid COVID-19
- What CEOs Need to Know about Leading Virtual Meetings
- Business & Technology Impacts due to COVID-19
- Reinvent Yourself
- Why CEOs Should Care about Customer Experience
- What CEOs Need to Know about Suicide
- The Power of Social Connection in and out of the Workplace
- Leveraging Data for Value - What CEOs Need to Know
- What CEOs Need to do When they are Overwhelmed and Stressed Out
- CEO Implications of the #MeToo Movement
- Accessibility: The Business Case for CEOs
- Planning for Your Next Career Chapter: What Do You Need to Do Now?
- Leading Edge Health Trends for CEOs and Executives
- Selling to Strategics and the Biggest Mistakes Business Owners Make
- CEO Best Practices for Mental Health
- Radical Relevance - Sharpen Your Marketing Message: Cut Through the Noise and Win More Ideal Clients
- The 3 Biggest Security Mistakes that CEOs Make
- What does it Take to Execute Strategy?
- Surviving to Thriving – The 10 Laws of Grateful Leadership
- Quarterly Executive Offsites – Do we really need them?
- Attracting, Developing and Retaining Top Talent, The REDspace Story
- Crossing the Generational Divide
- The Men's Initiative – What To Do About Men?
- The Bellwether Effect: Stop Following. Start Inspiring!
- Partnering with Private Equity – The Foley’s Candies Story
- The Biggest Mistake CEOs Make When Creating and Preserving Personal Wealth
- The Great Kitchen Party Canada – supporting the next generation of inspirational Canadian athletes, musicians and chefs in achieving their dream
- Talent Innovation for Business Owners
- The Why of Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
- Reinventing Business – The Shift to Self-Managed Organizations
- The Psychological Health of CEOs
- Maximizing Brain Health for CEOs
- The CEO Trust Factor
- Innovate on Purpose - the Luvo Story
- Why CEOs Need Big Ideas for Profitable Growth
- How much sleep do CEOs really need?
- Business Owners – How to Get What You Want!
- CEO Health Really Matters
- The Future of Work is Now: Are you Ready?
- Written in the Snow: Life Lessons from Climbing the 7 Summits
- 5 Cohesive Behaviours of an Executive Team
- Eat and Exercise for your DNA
- CEOs with Purpose
- How to Make Your Business More Profitable Through Culture
- Sustainability in the Canadian Private Sector
- Radical Candour to Speed Up Execution
- How to be a Long-Term A-Player CEO
- Take that Leap - What it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur
- Big Ideas for Profitable Growth at Medline
- The Purpose Revolution
- The Spark, The Flame and the Torch: A Toolkit for Inspiring CEOs
- Why Healthy CEOs are Inspiring Leaders
- Agile Delivery to Agile Organization
- How Blockchain will Change Society in a Positive Way
- Cannabis as Disruptor: What CEOs Need to Do About It
- CEO Disruptors of the Next Decade
- Digital Readiness for Entrepreneurs
- What Business Owners Do to Achieve their Growth Goals
- The Beauty of Discomfort and Innovation
- Embracing Innovation & Technology
- What CEOs Need to Know about Blockchain
- The Entrepreneurs Guide to Innovation
- What CEOs Need to Know about Selecting Advisors
- How to Speed up Disruptive Change
- Proactive Aging: The Biggest Mistakes CEOs Make
- The Bottom Line on Customer Retention
- Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence in the Music Industry
- How to Drive Profitable Growth by Maximizing Individual Productivity
- Tax Reform - What Business Owners Need to Know
- Everything you were taught about CEO communication is wrong
- How to Find and Retain CEO and Executive Top Talent
- The 3 Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
- CEOs who Outlast and Outperform in Canada
- How to Disrupt Your Business
- How to get your team to fire on all cylinders
- Mental Health in the Workplace, what CEOs Need to Know
- Gratitude: a Powerful CEO Leadership Tool
- Leading Innovation from Nothing
- The EncoreFX Fast Growth Global Journey
- The Denton's Journey to becoming the World's Largest Law Firm
- ROI on Digital and Social Strategies
- What CEOs need to know about Sexual Harassment
- Sharing Experiences: The Game Changing CEO Leadership Skill
- The Triple Bottom Line
- Mental Toughness in an Exponential Change World
- Measure What Matters
- The Business Case for Disability
- What CEOs Need to Know about Building Inclusive Organizations
- Feet to the Fire: How to Create a High Accountability Culture
- The Art of Being Present in an Exponential Change World
- Making Corporate Governance a Competitive Advantage for Canada
- Your CEO Succession Playbook: How to Pass the Torch so Everyone Wins
- High Performance Leadership for CEOs
- Exponential Disruption
- The Future World of Work in an Exponential Change World
- Marketing & Referability in an Exponential World
- The Strategic Use of CEO Time
- Think Bigger - The Journey of Wealthy Entrepreneurs
- Purpose Driven Authentic Leadership
- The 3 C-Suite Skills that Serve all CEOs Well
- Leadership Well-Being
- The Mr. Mikes Exponential Change Journey
- Lifestorming - Creating Meaning and Achievement in your Career & Life
- How to Deliver a Great Customer Experience in an Exponential World
- Disruptive Sales and Marketing Tools to Accelerate Growth
- How to be a Great Boss in an Exponential Change World
- How to Innovate During a Crisis: The Fort McMurray Story
- Why Not Disrupt the Ice Cream Industry?
- Populating the World with Better Leaders
- The Leadership Compass: How to Never Lose Your Way in an Exponential World
- Leadership Insights from the Rise and Fall of Heenan Blaikie
- Exponential Change in the Hotel Industry
- How to Avoid a Hurricane (in employee benefit costs)
- What Keeps CEOs Awake at Night in an Exponential World?
- Engaging Millennials (and everyone else) - What CEOs Need to Know
- Innovation, Disruption and Productivity - Will you be left behind?
- The 3 Biggest Mistakes CEOs make when Communicating to Employees
- How to be a Disrupter
- Exponential Change in Global Education
- How to Double Revenue and Double Profits
- Exponential Change in the IT Industry: What CEOs Need to Know
- Exponential Change + Innovation in the Travel Industry
- The Secrets of Most Admired Corporate Cultures Winners
- The Secrets of Best Managed Companies
- Accelerating Growth through EOS
- Why Successful Companies are Thinking "Digital First"
- Are My Employees Really Engaged?
- Private Equity Brings More Than Just Capital
- Mistakes CEOs Make When Managing Change
- How to Navigate a Health Crisis with Kevin Brady, Advica Health
- Innovate by Reducing Complexity with Bill Tucker, Omicron
- Keeping up with Consumers, with David Labistour, CEO, MEC
- Mistakes Wealthy People Make with John Nicola, Nicola Wealth Management
- Strategy, Leadership & Culture with Paul Hollands, A&W Food Services
- How to Optimize Executive Health with Chris Nedelmann, Copeman Healthcare
- Exponential Growth with Eric Berke, TorQuest
- CEO Vulnerability with Dr. Tara Cree
Team
- Scott Brown
- Claire Cranston
- Kim Moody
- Laura Vaughan
- Mike Schutz
- Edmond Luk
- Christina Thiele
- Dave Dinesen
- Claire Freyvogel
- Kim Chernecki
- Rocky Ozaki
- Zaheer Hoosain
- Richard Boyer
- Jane Matthews
- Nancy MacKay, PhD
Partners
- LineZero
- Chief Executive Group
- Fort Capital
- Relay Transition Partners
- Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business
- Business Transitions Forum
- Heart Fit Clinic
- The CFO Centre
- WNS Global Service
- The NoW of Work
- Cleveland Clinic Canada
- Waterstone Human Capital
- Impro AI
- Coast Capital
- ProserveIT
- Yellow Point Equity Partners
- BDC
- Canada's Best Managed Companies (Deloitte)
- Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures (Waterstone Human Captial)
- Empresario Partners
- Advica Health
- Corporate Traveller/FCTG
- BCIT
- Nicola Wealth
Ebooks
- Download Inspired Leadership – You Go First™
- Download How to Achieve Time Mastery
- Download What Great CEOs Recommend
- Download What Great CEOs Do
Short Articles
- Master Your Emotions to Build Trust and Candour
- It Doesn't Have to be Lonely at the Top
- Conflicts Caused by Confusion Over Who's Responsible for Making Decisions
- Bridge Generation Gaps to Maximize Success
- Build on Strengths to Achieve Time Mastery
- Effective Succession Plans Help Secure Top Talent and Improve Corporate Results
- New CEOs Need to Focus on Building Trust
- Countering the Cover-Your-Butt Business Culture
- Why Workaholics Turn Talent Advantages into Disadvantages
- How to Avoid Getting Fired
- Focus on Future Business Success Not Past Failure
- Building Executive Team Effectiveness can Accelerate Better Corporate Results
- The Truth About Why Executives Quit
- Get Buy-in Before Adding to your Executive Team
- How to Avoid Surprises and Manage Bad News
- How to Rebuild Corporate Board Trust and Effectiveness
- Retaining Top Talent
- Minimizing Executive Disruptions when Instituting New Corporate Strategies
- Building Self-Esteem is Key to Handling Sudden Setbacks
- Executive Assistants are Critical to CEO Success
- How to Cultivate Better Business Growth
- How to Deal with a Difficult Board Member
- Don’t wait too long to upgrade talent in a tough economy
- How to Shift CEO Brand from Intimidating to Approachable
- How to get a Return on Company Investment in Social Media
- How to Reinvent Your Company’s Top Job
- How to Build Corporate Board Trust and Effectiveness
- Ego-Talk in the Boardroom can Undermine CEO Success
- How to Hold People Accountable for Results