Strategic Plan and Goals

STRATEGIC PLAN 2025-29 (ONE-PAGE HIGHLIGHTS)

The 2025-29 Strategic Plan was approved by CDO’s Board of Directors on March 21, 2025. The plan defines the results we aim to achieve. The strategic plan is intended to:

  • Guide the efforts of the Board, committees and staff.

  • Focus our energy and help us allocate resources into areas that the Board believes are necessary to fulfil our mission.

  • Provide system partners with insight into how the College intends to fulfil its mission and vision.

Goal One: Enhance trust and demonstrate regulatory value.

We uphold high regulatory standards that ensure the College’s impact on public safety.

  • Demonstrate effectiveness and commitment to innovation by continuously improving regulatory practices using right-touch regulation and other leading practices and using data-driven insights to enhance public protection and accountability.
  • Provide education about accessing reliable ntrition support and information.
  • Improve the quaility of nutrition care for the public by regulating professional nutrition titles.
  • Maintain high service standards to ensure responsive and transparent interactions with the public and Registered Dietitians.

Goal Two: Expand access and reduce barriers to practice.

We support an accessible pathway for dietitians to enter and grow within the profession.

  • Collaborate with system partners to identify ways to optimize the dietetic scope of practice within the healthcare system in the public interest and strengthen the public’s access to high-quality, safe dietetics care.
  • Streamline processes to reduce administrative barriers and enhance accessibility to entry to practice.

Goal Three: Promote quality care and professionalism.

We enable RDs in the delivery of high quality care through right-touch standards and resources.

  • Support RDs in their delivery of care in the context of evolving practice environments and emerging practices in the healthcare system.
  • Align professional regulatory obligations and resources with the practice environment, proportionate to the risk to the public.
  • Engage in outreach and collaboration with Registered Dietitians to foster continuous learning and shared commitment to quality practices.