Brendan Calder is a man who many cite as a mentor. He has probably helped produce more leaders in the mortgage industry then anyone. It is my pleasure to spend an hour talking leadership and management with Brendan. I certainly took some things away from this one that change the way I look at how I do things.
Resources discussed in the interview
Getting It Done at the Rotman School of Business: http://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/gettingitdone/course-outline/
Books:
The Effective Executive: Peter Drucker
The One Minute Manager: Ken Blanchard
Xenephone’s Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
About Brendan:
Brendan Calder is the Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Professor and Chair of Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking at Rotman where he conducts the award-winning course, GettingItDone®. He was the founding Chair of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management. He also serves as the Director of EllisDon Construction, Equity Financial Trust Co. and FirstService Corp.
Brendan served as the Chair, President and CEO of CIBC Mortgages from 1995 to 2000. He also served as Chair of TIFF and of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation.
Academic Positions
| 2001-present | Adjunct Professor; Rotman School of Management |
| 2002-present | Faculty: GettingItDone 2nd yr MBA course |
| 2001 | Executive Director, MBA Programs |
| 2006-2008 | Faculty:Bridge to Business |
| 2008 | Faculty:Omnium MBA |
| 2001-present | Entrepreneur in Residence; Rotman School of Management |
| 2004- 2008 | Founding Chair; Int’l Centre for Pension Management |
| 2003-present | Chair; Marcel Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking |
| 2010-2013 | Founding Board Member; FinSerAdvBd |
| 2002-present | Director; Impact Consulting Group |
| 2003-present | Senior Fellow, Massey College |
| 2010-present | Faculty: Social CRM program |
| 2010-present | Faculty: The Next 36 program |
| 2013-present | Board Member; CreativeDestructionLab |
| 2013-present | Board Member; Clarkson Ctre |
| 2012-present | Faculty, Creative Destruction Lab |
| 2001-present | Champion of All Things Rotman |
Non-Academic Positions
| 1996-2000 | Chair, President and CEO; CIBC Mortgages |
| 1988-1996 | President/Co-founder & Significant Shareholder; FirstLine Trust Company |
| 1983-1988 | President, Director & Significant Shareholder; Counsel Corporation/Counsel Trust; Counsel Life, DirecTrust |
| 1980-1983 | President, CEO & Director; Fidelity Trust |
| 1978-1980 | Executive VP; Canadian Realty Investors |
| 1969-1978 | General Manager, Director & Significant Shareholder; Canavest House (TSX member firm) |
Honors and Awards
| 2006 | ICD.D; Institute of Corporate Directors |
| 2004 | Initial Inductee; Mortgage Hall of Fame |
| 2006-2013 | Excellence in Teaching; Rotman School of Mngt |
| 2003 | Presidents’ Circle; U of Toronto |
| 2003 | Arbor Award; U of Toronto |
| 2013 | Fellow; The Royal Canadian Geographical Society |
| 2012 | Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Award; University of Waterloo |
| 1983 | Fellow; Canadian Trusts Institute |
| 2013 | Inaugural Claudia ‘helluvaguy’ Award |
| 1979 | Fellow; Canadian Securities Institute |
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
| Director, EllisDon Corporation |
| Director, FirstService Corporation |
| Director, Equity Finacial Trust Co |
| Director, Canada’s Top 40 under 40 |
| Judge, Donner Awards |
| Past Director, CIBC Insurance Inc. |
| Past Chair, CIBC Mortgages Inc. |
| Past Director, WSIB |
| Past Chair, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| Past Director, Colliers International Mortgage Corporation |
| Past Director, Canadiana Financial |
| Past Chair, Coventree Capital |
| Past Director, The Franchise Company |
| Past Director, First International Asset Management |
| Past Director, FiLogix Inc. |
| Past Director, ClearPoint Business Resources |
| Past Chair, Custom Direct Income Fund |
| Past Director, iOwn Inc. |
| Past Director, Hammond Manufacturing |
| Past Chair, Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation |
| Past Director, Shred-it Inc |
| Past Chair, WirelessMoney Inc. |
| Member & Past RVP Canada, World Presidents Organization |
| Advisor for the Office of the Auditor General, Canada |
| Founding Chair, McLuhan Festival of the Future |
| Member & Past Chapter Chair, Young Presidents Organization |
| Member & Past Director, The National Club |
| Founding Member, National Angel Organization |
| Past Director, CNIB Ontario |
| Big Brother – 1975-82 |
