Path Beyond the C-Suite: How to Get On Paid Boards

Ms. Antoun is a successful executive, leadership coach, consultant and speaker with over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, program and risk management, partnership development and stakeholder engagement. She has worked with multinationals, private corporations, governments, First Nations organizations and non-profits.

She serves on various boards as a director and external advisor in addition to her boutique consulting and coaching practice. She is also an active member of several professional associations, including the Institute of Corporate Directors and Women Corporate Directors. Her contributions include numerous speaking and writing engagements. In 2020, she wrote an article for the National Association of Corporate Directors on diversity and inclusion in the boardroom, which drew on her past experiences as a new board member, her work on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and current research on the topic.

Ms. Antoun is fluently bilingual. She holds a mechanical engineering degree from Concordia's Gina Cody School of Engineering and an MBA from McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. At Concordia, she established a bursary to support women from underrepresented groups. In 2022, she was named one of Concordia's Top 50 Under 50 Shaping Tomorrow.

Ms. Bolger is an experienced board member and former financial services senior executive. She is a former executive vice president for RBC Royal Bank. Through her three-decade tenure with RBC, she developed deep experience in strategic business leadership, focusing on commercial banking, personal lending, wealth management and enterprise-wide risk management.

She is a past board member of Sagen Inc., the Capital Markets Authority Implementation Organization and a former chair of the Board of Moneris Solutions. Her not-for-profit interests include education and the well-being of children, and she has been a board member of the Dean's Advisory Council at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Children's Aid Foundation.

She holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, Rotman School of Business, an MBA from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University.

An economist, Louise holds an MBA, a master’s degree in museology and a certificate in governance. She is distinguished by a trailblazing career in financial and professional services, her participation on several boards and her commitment of more than forty years to promoting the representation of women in organizations. She was the founding president of the Bureau des services financiers du Québec, the precursor of the Autorité des marchés financiers.

Engaged in researching new trends in governance and diversity, she has written extensively on the topic for various websites for over ten years, collaborates with magazines and serves as a blogger for Journal Les Affaires on ESG factors and the social responsibility of organizations.

She is a member of the Order of Canada, Ordre national du Québec and Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec. In 2023, she was awarded the distinction of Administrateur de sociétés certifié (ASC) Émérite by the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés of Université Laval.

Professor Mangen was born and raised in Luxembourg before pursuing her university education in Switzerland and the United States. Since earning her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Rochester, she has been doing research and teaching at Concordia University. Her research focuses on organizations and their governance, and explores how governance is related to gender inequalities.

She is the lead researcher on the SSHRC-funded research program “Disruptive Dames? The process of disruption underlying women’s transition into organizational leadership,” which is funded until 2027. It explores the process underlying the disruption of gender inequalities in the leadership of for-profit organizations in Canada.

In addition to her research work, she writes for and engages with the media. She has published in The Conversation and The London School of Economics Business Review. In 2023, she received the President’s Media Outreach Award from Concordia University for her publications in The Conversation.

She teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her teaching focuses on organizational disclosures and governance.