Michèle Desjardins

President, Koby Consulting
Senior Partner
Lansberg Gersick & Associates LLC and Niagara Institute

Member:
Governance and Ethics Committee

Board member since:
December 21, 2009

Profile
Michèle Desjardins has extensive international consulting and management experience, particularly in organizational development, governance structures and manager evaluation and coaching. She trained as a forest engineer and pursued a career in the pulp and paper industry until the early 1990s, first at Abitibi-Price and later at Inter City Papers. After holding various positions with Price Waterhouse and the Commission des valeurs mobilières du Québec, she headed the Institut de l’entreprise familiale from 1994 to 1997. She became a Senior Partner at Lansberg Gersick & Associates LLC in 1998 and at the Niagara Institute in 1999. Ms. Desjardins has also been President of Koby Consulting since 1998.

Ms. Desjardins has a Bachelor of Applied Science with an option in Forest Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from Université Laval. She is a Certified Management Consultant and a member of the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec. She is also a Certified Corporate Director, specializing in public and private family businesses. Ms. Desjardins has been active with various not-for-profit organizations in recent years and sits on the board of directors of the Société du Palais des congrès de Montréal.