Program Overview

The Directors Education Program (DEP), jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, helps you to clarify your governance mission and fully exercise your leadership potential as a board director.

Delivered by Canada’s leading corporate governance experts, it is a highly interactive 12-day course that incorporates roundtable discussions, real-time case studies and on-point insights from world-renowned faculty, experts in the field of board behaviours and executives-in-residence.

The goal of the program is to build competencies deemed necessary to be an effective director.

Completion of the DEP is the first step towards obtaining the professional ICD.D designation granted by the Institute of Corporate Directors. This is the only professional designation for Canadian directors recognized both nationally and internationally.

The Directors Education Program is offered nationally at the following business schools:

• University of Alberta School of Business
• Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
• Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
• Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
• Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University