Michael Decter

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Presentations

HEALTHCARE FOCUS:

Maintaining Your health & Wealth Through a Time of Transition
We are in a time where many fear for their economic future. Will they have a job? Will their pension be there when they need it? Will their investments recover? Less obvious but equally important are the impacts of stress and uncertainty on health. Will stress aggravate chronic conditions? How to stay healthy in a time of change.

Navigating Canada's Health Care: The User Guide to Getting the Care You Need
Targetted to both consumers and health care organizations, Decter focuses on best-practice health care through three stages of life.

Four Strong Winds of Change
Decter looks at transformations in global health care and its impact.

Canada/U.S. Health Care Reform
By comparing the two, Decter looks at what we can learn from each other to improve health care.

Towards the Next Canadian Health Care System
Decter will look at the transformations occurring in Canadian health care, offering insights that are both relevant and useful.

FINANCIAL FOCUS:

NEW!  - 10 Good Reasons to Invest in Canada
The ideas in 10 Good Reasons are the insights we apply each day to managing the investment funds entrusted to us. It is essential to look beyond the short-term negativity no matter how troubling and assess longer-term realities.

Million Dollar Strategy: Building Your Own Retirement Fund in Just Thirty Minutes a Day
Learn how you can take control of your RRSP and your retirement future. How to get started on the road to understanding the right investments for your RRSP.

Summary Profile

Michael Decter is a Harvard-trained economist who possesses an optimistic outlook during the pessimistic economic times we are facing. Having served as the Founding Chair of the Health Council of Canada, and past Chairperson of the National Board for the Canadian Institute for Health Information, Michael Decter embodies over 25 years of experience in the public and private health sectors.

Decter, who was appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Canada in 2004, is currently the managing director of Michael Decter and Associates Ltd., and also serves as president of the investment management firm, LDIC Inc. As a consultant, Decter has led major assignments for many of Canada's leading teaching hospitals. These assignments have included reengineering, mergers, and strategic planning.

Michael Decter is described as "one of the best and brightest public servants of his generation". A former Deputy Minister of Health for the Ontario Government, Decter now travels widely as a consultant and public speaker on managing health system reform. He is a charming speaker who is frank and informative with just the right amount of humour. Decter will share how to look beyond the short-term negativity that surrounds the economy, no matter how troubling things may seem, and assess longer-term realities.

Highlights:

• More than two decades of experience as a senior manager
• Member of the Order of Canada
• Author of the book, 10 Good Reasons to Invest in Canada

Client Testimonials:

"Michael Decter was well received. I especially liked his reference to pharmacy and the pharmacist's role in the health care system. It was an honest "reference" to the event sponsor."

 President, MediSystem Pharmacy Limited

"Great speaker; motivating, humorous, knowledgeable, encouraging, timely information, clear, well-informed about GHC, suggestions to GHC, brought awareness of the broader picture in healthcare."

 Group Health Centre