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Board of Directors
The Centre for Health & Safety Innovation is governed by a Board of Directors. The Board consists of the Presidents and CEOs of the partner organizations.
Michael Delisle
Secretary/Treasurer, CHSI Board of Directors
President and CEO, Infrastructure Health & Safety Association
Michael Delisle is the President & CEO of Infrastructure Health and Safety Association, which was formed effective January 1,
2010 through the amalgamation of Construction Safety Association of Ontario (CSAO), Electrical & Utilities Safety Association (E&USA) and Transportation Health and Safety Association of Ontario (THSAO).
Michael holds a Master of Business Administration degree as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has a long and distinguished background working with client-based service organizations.
As the founding CEO of International Certification Services, Michael led the company from forty-fourth in market share to seventh in just five years. His distinguished career includes the position of President and CEO of the consulting firm of McCormick Delisle and Thompson Inc.
After selling this company to KPMG, he became Vice-President of Business Development for KPMG Registrar. He has also held executive positions at General Electric and ABB.
His background includes various Health & Safety roles as well as a unique combination of entrepreneurial and large organization leadership responsibilities.
Michael is currently on the Board of the Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre and International Certification Services Inc.
Elizabeth Mills
President, CHSI Board of Directors
President and CEO, Workplace Safety & Prevention Services
Elizabeth Mills is the inaugural President and Chief Executive Officer of Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS),
one of four newly amalgamated health and safety associations resulting from the restructuring of Ontario's prevention system.
WSPS, formed January 1, 2010, is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to meet the health and safety needs of 154,000 businesses in the agricultural,
manufacturing and service industries, representing 3.8 million employees across Ontario.
An executive with over 16 years of experience and leadership in health and safety, Elizabeth Mills was previously CEO of the Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), having brought together a coalition of industry trade associations and volunteer organizations to found the not-for-profit association in 1997.
Prior to OSSA, Elizabeth honed her government relations, policy development and operational planning skills working in a variety of senior roles in the not-for-profit and government sectors. A strategic thinker, change agent and leader of stakeholder coalitions, Elizabeth served as Director, Government Relations, Retail Council of Canada, from May 1995 to June 1997. In representing and lobbying on behalf of the Council's 7,000 retail companies, she focused on issues related to employment standards, health and safety, workers' compensation and the environment.
Elizabeth's prior experience includes five years as an Ontario public servant working in policy-related functions in both the Ministry of the Government Services and the Ministry of the Solicitor General. She left government in March 1993 to begin her career as a lobbyist in association management and with the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association.
Elizabeth is currently a Director on the Board of WSPS. She also holds positions as:
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Previously Elizabeth served as a publicly appointed member of the Board of Directors for the College of Opticians, and as a Director for the Ontario Tourism Education Corporation.
A native of Toronto, Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (1987) from Wilfrid Laurier University and her Master of Public Administration from Queen's University, (1989). In recognition of her achievements, Elizabeth was nominated for Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" awards program.