The Boardies

Canada’s Best Private Boards is a new annual awards program and summit – the first of its kind in Canada – that will recognize the impact of great governance on the performance of private companies.

 
 
 
 

We are seeking transformational stories of boards that have helped make their organizations great.

 
 

How it Works

  • Nominations: November 7th, 2024 to March 1st, 2025

  • Program Submission Period: March 1st, 2025 to April 30th, 2025

  • Submission Interviews: May 15th, 2025 to June 1st, 2025

  • Judging Committee Vote: June 12th, 2025

  • Winners Announced: June 24th, 2025

  • Summit and Awards: November 5th, 2025

Award Categories

  • Best Fiduciary Board - Family-Owned

  • Best Fiduciary Board - Employee-Owned or Partnership

  • Best Fiduciary Board – Unrelated Shareholder’s Ownership

  • Best Advisory Board

Eligibility

  • Canadian organizations or Canadian subsidiary organizations, privately-owned and for-profit, with $5M or more in annual revenue.

  • Please note this award recognizes the boards of private companies only and does not include recognition for the boards of other types of organizations (e.g. not for profit, crown corporations, publicly-traded, etc.)

Associated Costs

  • There is no cost to participate in the nomination or submission process.

  • The awards and conference in November 2025 will have associated registration costs.

Nominations

  • Your board can be nominated, or, you can self-nominate.

  • Nominators can be on a board themselves or simply have knowledge of a board doing great things, e.g., board members, members of a company’s leadership or management team, leadership from a portfolio company, consultants working with a company’s board, etc.

  • We are looking for transformational stories of boards that have helped make their companies great.

 
 

“

Privately held SMEs drive the Canadian economy, and boards – both fiduciary and advisory – are increasingly becoming the strategic engines of those organizations.

Great governance drives performance and it’s time to recognize that.”

– Jennifer Mondoux, CEO of MondouxRollins Partners Inc., the Founder and Presenting Partner of Canada’s Best Private Boards

 

Submissions

Nominated organizations will be asked to make a written submission on or before April 30th, 2025. The submission will include five categories (Journey, Impact and Performance, Composition and Culture, Leadership Succession and Evaluation, and The Future), with short written responses (e.g. 500 words) per category.

Submission Interviews

Organizations that have made a submission to the program will be asked to participate in a brief, 30-minute video or in-person interview. These interviews will be conducted by MondouxRollins Partners.

Voting

Our voting committee review submissions and vote on the winners in early June 2025, with an official announcement made at the end of June, 2025. Our committee is comprised of an enormously talented group of governance and leadership professionals, who have a particular expertise working with private companies. Please note, although MondouxRollins Partners Inc. is the founder and producer of the Canada’s Best Private Boards, a.k.a. The Boardies, program, we do not vote on the winners.

Summit and Awards

Winners in each category will be celebrated in November 2024. Click here to see last year’s (2024) winners.

A half-day of learning as well as the sharing of personal stories of transformational board experiences in private companies will take place on that day, to be followed by a stand-up cocktail where the 2024 winners will be celebrated.

 
 

Click here to make a nomination.