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Victoria Garvin, FCG

Senior Governance Director

Victoria is a dynamic and versatile Governance Professional with over 20 years’ experience, primarily within the highly regulated financial services sector.

ESG & B-Corp, CoSec On-Demand, Governance Gap Analysis, Coaching & Training, Governance Framework, Board Evaluation

Experience

Victoria began her career at Aviva in the Life and Pensions business before expanding her role to include Secretariat support for the General Insurance and Reinsurance divisions. She was later appointed to lead the global, group-wide function responsible for overseeing governance practices across the organisation.

Before joining Aviva, Victoria served as Group Company Secretary for Canada Life Group, the UK division of The Great-West Life Co., a Canadian financial services group listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

An experienced director and Executive Coach, Victoria has held board-level roles throughout her career. She is currently a non-executive director on the Board of a Multi-Academy Trust, where she is the Chair of its Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. She also previously served as a trustee for a large hybrid (DB and DC) pension scheme.

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Training & Coaching

Victoria is no stranger to the boardroom and regularly advises boards, develops and delivers board induction programmes, provides ongoing director training and embeds effective and efficient boardroom practises and reporting making the best use of the board’s precious time.

Victoria is a qualified Executive Coach and an expert trainer with many years’ experience. She delivers tailored training for boards, and coaches chairs, directors, and her governance peers to succeed.

Board Evaluation

Victoria is an expert in board evaluations having designed and developed board effectiveness reviews for implementation on a global basis.

She has supported on externally facilitated reviews, bringing in her expertise as a Coach to assess the behavioural elements that are often at play within boardroom dynamics.

Governance Frameworks

Victoria understands that nothing gets done without measurement. She’s designed and developed governance framework schemata; built governance dashboards and KPIs; upskilled and streamlined in-house governance teams and embedded global governance principles that work in practice and comply with the differing international legal, regulatory, and cultural backdrop.

She has managed multinational groups with over 1,500+ entities and has led entity rationalisation programmes where 200 subsidiaries were prepared for liquidation.

ESG & B-Corp

Victoria truly understands the importance of sustainability and ESG in today’s corporate world. Her unique understanding of Governance allows her to create frameworks that provide meaningful change and value to how an organisation thinks about ESG, by leading with Governance. This approach allows for a top-down approach that has a meaningful impact throughout your business and the communities your organisation operates in.

If you want to make impactful ESG changes, that really create value for all stakeholders you must lead with the G, the E&S will follow.

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