Colleen Johnston is the Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Office, TD Bank Financial Group in Toronto, Canada. Her duties with the group include primary responsibility for all aspects of external and regulatory financial reporting, performance measurement and optimization. She gets much of the credit for removing her bank from the subprime mortgage business before its meltdown, making TD Bank Financial Group one of the few North American institutions that didn't need to write down any subprime mortgage losses. As a volunteer in her community she serves as chair of the ShareLife Corporate Campaign and as a member of the Mission Committee for the Heart and Stroke Foundation as well as on the board of Bridgeport Health. She also actively promotes diversity in the workplace as chair of TD's Women in Leadership Committee. On her company website there's a speech she gave to the Schulich School of Business 2007 Women in Leadership Conference, Toronto, detailing her career in banking over a 33 year period, a study in industry changes that details why she places such an emphasis on the importance of diversity in the workplace. It's not enough that she succeed in business, as she has done, but she's determined to help others follow suit, an attitude along with her business expertise which helped gained her a spot on USBanker's list of 25 women to watch in 2008.
Colleen Johnston is the Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Office, TD Bank Financial Group in Toronto, Canada. Her duties with the group include primary responsibility for all aspects of external and regulatory financial reporting, performance measurement and optimization. She gets much of the credit for removing her bank from the subprime mortgage business before its meltdown, making TD Bank Financial Group one of the few North American institutions that didn't need to write down any subprime mortgage losses. As a volunteer in her community she serves as chair of the ShareLife Corporate Campaign and as a member of the Mission Committee for the Heart and Stroke Foundation as well as on the board of Bridgeport Health. She also actively promotes diversity in the workplace as chair of TD's Women in Leadership Committee. On her company website there's a speech she gave to the Schulich School of Business 2007 Women in Leadership Conference, Toronto, detailing her career in banking over a 33 year period, a study in industry changes that details why she places such an emphasis on the importance of diversity in the workplace. It's not enough that she succeed in business, as she has done, but she's determined to help others follow suit, an attitude along with her business expertise which helped gained her a spot on USBanker's list of 25 women to watch in 2008.