Business Innovator: diagnosing and designing corporate governance practices and conditions for stakeholder trust
Toronto, Canada Area
Business Innovator: diagnosing and designing corporate governance practices and conditions for stakeholder trust
Toronto, Canada Area
Alex Todd is a serial innovator and entrepreneur. He is a thought leader in rebuilding trust for business and architect of the Trust Enablement® Framework, a universal scheme for diagnosing and designing conditions for trust. He used this Framework to derive the Governance Lifecycle Model for identifying corporate governance styles and the Aspirational Corporate Governance Framework for organizational sustainability. Trust Enablement® is founded on information theory and was inspired by his work with public key infrastructure (PKI) at IBM. It has also helped him share valuable insights about various areas of business that include leadership, collaboration, sales and marketing, public relations, online social networks, electronic commerce, supply chain management, risk management, and business strategy. His work has been published by McMaster University, Conference Board of Canada, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and John Wiley & Sons.
Corporate Governance
- "Corporate Governance Best Practices: One size does not fit all" (see http://trustenablement.com)
- "Trust Enabled™ Corporate Governance" (see http://trustenablement.com)
Supply Chain Management
- "Trust Enabled Supply Networks: Uncovering the trust-building secrets of highly collaborative supply chains" (see http://trustenablement.com)
(Think Tanks industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
My company, Trust Enablement Incorporated, is a think tank organization that conducts research and provides management consulting services.
We are the developer and owner of a proprietary management innovation, called Trust Enablement™. It is used by organizations in technologies and business processes to help them achieve their business goals by optimizing the trust of their stakeholders. Trust Enabled™ business practices reduce transaction costs and enhance business value in areas as diverse as supply chain management and corporate governance.
Trust Enablement™ is both a management philosophy and a technology for business best practices. It fills a business practices void by counterbalancing risk management based control mechanisms that preserve trust, with those that develop trust, and thereby provides a complementary, foundational, new management competency. It serves to fundamentally change the leadership mindset from an inside out to an outside-in orientation.
Trust Enablement™ has broad applicability, similar to risk management, but its value to business is far greater. Whereas risk management is defensively minded and preservation oriented, Trust Enablement™ is offensive and growth oriented.
Trust Enablement™ is a better approach for supporting the collaborative innovations required to compete in the 21st century.
We offer the Trust Optimizer Program (http://www.TrustOptimizer.com) and the Governance Lifecycle Model (GLM) Assessment Tool (http://trustenablement.com/governing.html#GLM) to help organizations achieve their business objectives by optimizing the trust of their stakeholders.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Management Consulting industry)
February 1999 — May 2003 (4 years 4 months)
Responsible for incubating the Global Trust Acceleration Center, within the PKI Center of Competency,
bringing new points of view to clients worldwide to assist them in pursuing innovative new business
models supported by industry-specific trust-enabling solutions (primarily in healthcare, financial services,
distribution and public sectors.) Provided subject matter expertise and support to IBMs marketing, sales
and engagement delivery teams.
(Public Company; BMO; Banking industry)
January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Accountable for maximizing the value proposition of a suite of business-to-business electronic commerce products, which required inventing cost effective, paradigm shifting solutions.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year )
Responsible for managing an international research and development effort for a PKI (public-key infrastructure) management software product. Built and managed a product management team, developed a market strategy,
supervised a remote software development office in Israel, contributed to corporate governance initiatives, protected corporate assets from foreign interests and represented the company in domestic and international markets.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1990 — December 1996 (7 years )
Designed and developed two software products, called President's Planner and Partner's Planner, and strategically positioned and sold them via a variety of direct selling initiatives, including CompuServe.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — December 1989 (1 year )
(Think Tanks industry)
1986 — 1988 (2 years )
(Think Tanks industry)
1983 — 1985 (2 years )
Bachelor of Commerce , Accounting , 1977 — 1981
Find out more about my education and interests at http://www.TrustEnablement.com
skiing, cycling, mountain biking, downhill mountain biking, tennis, sailing, golf, healthy lifestyle, discovery channel, business strategy, corporate governance, trust in business.
Institute for Corporate Directors (ICD), Bayview Community Services, Vistage (aka TEC Associates)