2013-2014 Annual Report fmi igf
Our National Office Message
2014 PD Week and it will be open to all Chapters’ events
in 2015. This new tool will save uncountable hours of
work for staff and volunteers and help all Chapters to
generate easy and simple registration for all local events.
A special thanks to
Lynn Carroll
, our National Program
Administrator, who worked countless hours with our
developers to program, test and solve the inevitable
problems related to the introduction of such a system.
Members will have also noticed a major change in the
communications from fmi igf. The
latest version of the journal was an e
-journal entirely delivered in pdf
format to all members. The
production of the journal is a tedious
and time consuming process. The
new format change, led by
Cheryl
Elliott,
our Manager, Marketing &
Communications, will allow for more
timely news in an electronic format,
easily accessible form anywhere in the world. Building on
this recent change, we have also introduced a new
newsletter software that is currently being tested for the
promotion of the 2014 PD Week.
These two communication tools will be integrated
together in 2015, so stay tuned to this exciting change. All
these up-to-date resources allowed ffmi igf to face a
huge challenge: the introduction of new restrictions to the
Travel, Hospitality and Conference (THC) expenditures
from the federal government. This change generated a
reduction of attendance at our main events and created
some serious questioning of the product offering of the
Organization. Thankfully the constant dedication of our
National Manager, Business Development
Chris Egan
,
helped to attenuate the immediate financial repercussions
of this new challenge.
We now need to determine what we want the fmi igf of
the future to be, what products and services do we want
to offer to our members and to the community and what
delivery tools we want to use. A considerable amount of
work has already been done to this point, and much more
is yet to come. We will encourage everyone who wants to
be heard on this matter to get involved in early 2015.
The Financial Management Institute of Canada (fmi igf ) is
a national not-for-profit organization that operates as a
network of
in all provinces across Canada. fmi
igf offers professional development programs to its members
and non-members from government and non-government
organizations by way of learning events, workshops,
webinars and publications. With the support of a National
Office staff, the organization is directed by volunteer boards,
both nationally and regionally.
Over the last year internal governance renewal was our top
priority item. Following a comprehensive and in depth
process over one full year, this change will be coming to
fruition at the 2014 AGM. Over that period, the Managing
Director role was transformed to a new CEO position. After a
lengthy and thorough recruitment process, Mr.
Mathieu
Langelier
was hired as the organization’s first CEO. We
would like to thank Germain Tremblay and Cheryl Munro for
their hard work and dedication managing the association
during the interim period.
Earlier in the Fall of 2013 we also welcomed
Andre
LaFlamme
as our new Program Administration Officer.
Andre has already played an instrumental role in the success
of the webinars during the year. His main mandate was to
oversee the successful launch of our latest product offering
aimed specifically at young professionals:
The ALN as it is better known, generated
so much enthusiasm the Capital region launched it’s own ALN
group. The ALN also hosted it’s first event in Toronto earlier
in 2014. This group is very active on social media and
constantly generates many new ideas. This bodes well for the
future of our industry.
One of the major new developments from the National Office
is the introduction of the new online registration system. This
new system is presently being tested for registration at the
