About Sue Bochner

Sue Bochner established the first foundation in Canada with a specific focus to eradicating child abuse. Sue was the President of the Children's Aid Society Foundation, with responsibilities ranging from the protection and investment of assets, to establishing a granting program. She was also instrumental in founding The Kidder Foundation which became the Invest in Kids Foundation, a national granting and fund-raising organization devoted to the prevention of child abuse, and was its first President.

She is currently a member of the Independent Review Committee for Sentry Investments and the past Chair of the Independent Review Committee (IRC) for Global Growth Assets. Previously, as well as the past Chair of the IRC for Northern Rivers and was on the Advisory Committee of Altamira for 14 years. Sue was also a past member of the Advisory Board of the Non Profit Management & Leadership Program of The Schulich School of Business, York University. She has been a founder and Vice-Chairman of Operation Pride, member of the Board of Directors of both the Canadian Child Welfare Association and The Alliance for Drug Free Canada as well as the Children's Aid Society of Toronto.

Sue Bochner's Associates

• Dr. Tim Elliott - Leadership and Transition Coach and speaker. Tim is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute. He has been working with executives and professionals for the past 10 years helping them with effective leadership and vocational clarity and courage. His prior experience as an Anglican minister for 25 years and his doctoral work on vocation give him a unique perspective. He is the author of Clarity and Courage: Life as an Improvised Journey. He is also a featured speaker on a number of subjects dealing with improvisation, creativity, and wellness. He is a professional pianist and uses live music in presentations and workshops.
  
  His website may be found here.

• Cindy Green Cindy Green is the founder of Cindy Green Graphic & Event Management. Cindy has specific expertise in creative direction, quality control, production management and budget control. With extensive experience in areas ranging from annual reports and corporate brochures to newsletters, website creation, illustration and photography, Cindy brings to each project a visual understanding, as well as comprehensive production knowledge providing her clients with consistently outstanding performance under demanding deadlines and within tight budgets.
  
  Her website may be found here.

• Judy Litwack-Goldman, Fundraising Since 1990 Judy has specialized in helping non profit organizations and charities adapt to change. With extensive experience in strategic planning, capability assessments, and communications, Judy has worked with both large and small organizations at all stages of their development. She has helped clients establish a foundation, create and renew mission and vision statements, draft key messages, cases for support and detailed business plans, as well as helping with communications, fundraising proposals, securing sponsorships and major gifts, board and human resource development, and training for face to face asks.

  Judy understands non-profits and charities, how they work and how they are governed. She has a Masters degree in Health Administration and years of experience working in hospital foundations, volunteering as Treasurer of the Board of Lawrence Heights Community Centre as well as taking on many other volunteer leadership roles. She has also served as an Associate Professor for Sheridan College, where she taught the Introduction to Fundraising course for 6 years. Judy has been recognized for her outstanding work with two first place awards from the Canadian Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

  To reach Judy directly, please email her at or call 416-782-9033.

• David Simpson, Corporate Responsibility, Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Assurance

  David is the former Director of Standards and Collaborative Governance at the international non-profit think-tank AccountAbility, and a former Executive Director of the Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy. He has been an active contributor to the GRI, a technical committee member for various sustainability assurance protocols, and an advisor to Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) on integrated reporting, as well as a member of the IIRC's assurance technical committee. David was also an expert member of the International Working Group that published the ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility. He is also an accredited Impact Investment Auditor and sits on the assurance panel of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network in the UK.

  He has led seminars on sustainability at the United Nations University in Tokyo and lectured at the University of Toronto, McMaster University, York University as well as at Oxford's Saïd Business School and the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
  
  His website may be found here.

• Katita Stark, Public Relations Katita Stark is an award-winning public relations practitioner and president of Stark Communications, a marketing public relations business based in Toronto, Canada. She has worked with sectors from corporate, to all levels of government, consumer, financial, professional associations, and not for profit organizations.

  Katita is an accredited member of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS). She is a veteran speaker at conferences on communications/marketing public relations, specifically on the process and benefits of communications audits and networking.
  
  Her website may be found here.

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