Episode 251: Embracing Human Emotion in Leadership with Michael Decter

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Michael B. Decter is President and Chief Executive Officer of the investment management firm LDIC, which he founded in 1998. Independently owned and based in Toronto, Ontario, LDIC provides financial services to high-net-worth individuals, corporations, trusts, estates, foundations, pensions and insurance companies.

Michael has authored three books on investing, titled; Michael Decter’s Million Dollar Strategy (1998), The DRIP Strategy: Building Your Wealth One Share at a Time with Dividend Reinvestment Plans (2001), and Ten Good Reasons to Invest in Canada (2008). He regularly appears in national print media, and is a frequent guest on BNN Bloomberg and other broadcast media

Michael is a Harvard-trained economist with three decades of experience as a senior manager. He is a leading Canadian expert on health systems, with extensive international experience.

As a senior manager in the public sector, Michael served as Deputy Minister of Health for Ontario with responsibility for the management of the Ontario health system serving all residents of the province. He also served as Cabinet Secretary in the Government of Manitoba. Consulting positions have included Partner at KPMG, and Managing Director –Canada for APM/CSC.

As a Senior Research Scholar at the Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Michael authored additional books, including; Healing Medicare: Managing Health System Change – The Canadian Way (1994); Four Strong Winds – Understanding the Growing Challenges to Health Care, (2000); Navigating Canada’s Health Care, co-authored by Francesca Grosso, (2006) and his first political book, Tales from the Backroom - Memories of a Political Insider (2010). His first novel Shadow Life (2022) was selected as one of the best novels of 2022 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Michael was the Founding Chair of the Health Council of Canada and for a decade the former Chair of Saint Elizabeth Health Care. He served as the Chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Ontario Cancer Quality Council, the Wait Times Data Certification Council of Ontario, Board member of Border Crossings, Chair of the Walrus Foundation, and Chair of Medavie Blue Cross.

He currently serves as a Trustee of Auto Sector Health Care Trust and Chair of its Finance, Audit, and Investment Committee. Michael has also received many recognitions such as:

* Awarded The Order of Canada in 2004.

* Awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

* Named Chancellor of Brandon University in 2013.

* Appointed to the Premiers Council on Improving Medicare and Ending Hallway Medicine in 2018.

Connect with Michael at:

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-b-decter-89144b254/

* https://www.ldic.ca/

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