Throne Speech at the National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto
Bio:
David Hetherington joined The Rotary Club of Toronto in 1977. He served as Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms and Sergeant-at-Arms at a time when these were one year appointments. He was responsible for the logistics of Camp Enterprise as a member of the Youth and Children’s Service Committee for a number of years. He served on the Program Committee and has been a long time member of the Investment Committee. He served as a Club Board member from 1988-1990 and served as President of The Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation from 2011-2013. David has served as Chair of the Executive Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Honours and Awards Committee. David is the President of The Rotary Club of Toronto for the 2015-2016 Rotary year.
David Hetherington is Executive Vice-President, Portfolio Manager and Director of Professional Trading at Mackie Research Capital Corporation (MRCC). David has held several senior positions within Mackie Research Capital Corporation including Managing Director of Professional Trading (current), Regional Sales Manager, Branch Manager and Manager of Syndication. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the parent company of MRCC. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.
Topic: Advancing Our Tradition
On July 1st, 2015 The Rotary Club of Toronto embarked on its 103rd year of community service. Through the efforts of our members, the Club is dedicated to improving the lives of the most vulnerable people in the Toronto Community. We also seek to help people in difficult living conditions in foreign lands through our International Service Committee. This continues to be accomplished with fervor and fellowship by our dedicated members. We encourage our Philanthropic Committees to seek out new needs in our community that should be addressed by our Club. This is our tradition.
Every institution needs to take time to re-examine its goals and practices and The Rotary Club of Toronto is no exception. To this end, at the urging of Past President Sandy Boucher (yes, the recent father …. again), the Club established a Strategic Plan. In order to insure that the implementation of this Plan is ongoing, the President – Elect will be the Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for each future year.
In the Plan, the Committee established priorities, the first two: Engaged Membership and Inspired Communications have been, and continue to be implemented. The third priority is Effective Committees; this is a key part of the plan and arguably the most difficult to implement. Since each committee chair brings different skills and experience to the leadership role. Some will find it daunting and challenging while others will find it common to their everyday business lives. Everyone can learn, or be reminded of, the most effective ways to conduct meetings and gather consensus. To this end we are implementing training sessions for our committee leaders. Through this training and review process, we hope to achieve effectiveness in all our committees and gain an enthusiastic and engaged membership, clear action steps and a welcoming team atmosphere. I don’t think that we can over-estimate the importance of this initiative. This is where our community service efforts are developed and implemented and this is where leadership shines.
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