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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
Tara Lessard Webb currently works for Intact Specialty Solutions as corporate governance director. Over the last year, she helped her team navigate the transition from RSA, continuing to oversee the control environment to support both top-line and bottom-line results for Canada within the global specialty lines. She previously led a Governance Centre of Excellence on a national level for RSA Canada, after spending several years in global internal audit as a technical audit manager. Her focus has always been to ensure that the business has a sustainable control environment with an appropriate balance between controls and value-add to risk management.
Tara began her insurance career 22 years ago after graduating from university – not knowing much about insurance at the time or how it was such a major engine of the economy. She quickly realized that risk management was something she wanted to pursue and later obtained her fellowship. Over the years, the importance of relationships became clear to her, as well as how one’s network is one’s net worth. Most recently, she realized how far she has come since her very first CIP exam, contributing to a risk management research paper published by the Insurance Institute of Canada.
Passionate about making a positive impact for others, Tara became involved with DEI a few years ago after joining the RSA council. Currently, she contributes to Intact’s DEI Council on Indigenous matters. She has also been involved with establishing a mentoring program at RSA and mentors new graduates joining the industry.
Tara sits on both the RIMS Canada Council and RIMS Global DEI Council, where she is working on a mentoring program to support a diverse sustainable pipeline. She strongly believes that mentorship offers an opportunity to give back and advance DEI efforts in the industry. She also supports her local chapter ORIMS with DEI.
In all aspects of her life, Tara abides by her favourite statement by Maya Angelou: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Tara wants to have a legacy as a positive changemaker whose work creates a difference for others.
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Tara Lessard Webb
Corporate Governance Director
Intact Specialty Solutions
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