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Qualifications for nominees to Board of Directors
  • Board nominees must be voting members of Foresters
  • The majority (8 out of 15) must be Canadian citizens
  • Nominees must have sufficient time for Board and committee duties (approximately 15 to 20 days per year to attend in person four or five sets of meetings a year)
  • Background and skills should include senior business and/or fraternal experience in the areas of:
    • Audit, accounting, actuarial, law
    • Financial services management
    • Information Technology
    • Investment
    • Life Insurance Management
    • Marketing, Human Resources, or Communications
    • Strategic Planning
    • Volunteer and Fraternal management

  • Personal Qualities include the Ability to:
    • Put forward ideas while respecting the views of others
    • Analyze proposals put forward by management clearly and critically
    • Probe management proposals assertively and knowledgably
    • Communicate ideas clearly and actively participate in discussion
    • Understand the fundamental and strategic needs of the organization in the current environment
    • Act in the best interests of all members of Foresters
    • Understand the balance between the Board's and management's role
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