Enrich your board with the perspective of a female engineer based in North America

Passionate about the emergence of solutions resulting from innovations

Board of Directors | Advisory Committee | Governance Committee | Human Resources Committee | Strategic Committee

Boards of directors and committees

  • Imagining a promising future, a Vision of the future
  • Looking after the interests of all stakeholders
  • Use collective intelligence to bring out the best and brightest ideas
  • Progress through innovative ideas and winning strategies
  • Enhancing performance by cultivating potential
  • Leaving a positive impact on society by encouraging effective teamwork

ASC and C.Dir.

Roxane is a member of the Institut des administrateurs de sociétés (ASC) and holding the reciprocal designation (ASC) and Corporate Director (C.Dir).

A committed engineer

As a young engineer in the late ’80s, I was working at IBM.

I was interested in getting involved in the governance of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, the OIQ — Region of Lanaudière.

A few years later, I joined the board of directors of the Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec, the OEQ.

Take a look at my governance background here:
ASC graduate, certified corporate director.
 

Implications,

an overview in 3 examples

1

ADMINISTRATOR

EXCITING FIELD OF AERONAUTICS AND AEROSPACE

I have been a member of Meloche Group’s Board of Directors and Governance and Human Resources Committee since 2020.

2

CEO COACHING

BUSINESS SUCCESSION CONTEXT

2011-2019

 

During the succession process at Emballages CARROUSEL, I accompanied Brigitte Jalbert, daughter of the company’s founding father, Denis Jalbert.

I facilitated the company’s strategic thinking process and led the annual Offsite workshops with the management team for the decade that followed.

About Brigitte Jalbert

The experience of this coaching was recounted by Brigitte Jalbert, President and CEO of CARROUSEL, author of a book published in 2022.

Brigitte Jalbert is the recipient of numerous entrepreneurship awards, and is one of only 9 women to head Quebec companies with revenues of over $50 million. In 2019, Quebec section of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition, Business to Business category. Prix Femme d’affaires du Québec, Large Company category, Woman of Influence RBC, Entrepreneurial Excellence category.

In the Caisse de dépôt and Premières en affaires magazine’s list of Quebec companies headed by women, Brigitte Jalbert appears alongside Christiane Germain, of Groupe Germain, Madeleine Paquin, president of Logistec, and Julie Roy.

CARROUSEL is the largest independent distributor of packaging solutions in Canada, and a member of the:

  • Platinum Club of Canada’s Best Managed Companies
  • Among the best private companies for 7 consecutive years, Deloitte’s highest annual ranking.

3

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, SICPNL

ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL COACHES

2019-2020

SICPNL brings together certified professional coaches who have successfully completed 1000 hours of training/supervision in an accredited professional coaching path.

At the 2019 AGM, the Society’s members elect me to chair the Board of Directors. The directors entrust me with the mandate of general management.

In 2019-2020 — at the start of the pandemic — I steered the strategic planning process, brought out a Vision for the global Francophonie, increased membership to 250 certified coaches — spread across the American and European continents, as well as Reunion Island.

The development of an action plan, including the redesign of the website and the introduction of virtual coaching, ensured the long-term future of the company as it prepared to celebrate its 15th anniversary.

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