Michele Desjardins

Michèle Desjardins has extensive international consulting and management experience, particularly in organizational development, governance structures and manager evaluation and coaching. She trained as a forest engineer and pursued a career in the pulp and paper industry until the early 1990s, first at Abitibi-Price and later at Inter City Papers. After holding various positions with Price Waterhouse and the Commission des valeurs mobilières du Québec, she headed the Family Business Institute from 1994 to 1997. Appointed Senior Partner at Lansberg Gersick & Associates LLC in 1998, Ms. Desjardins is also President of Koby Consulting.