Jane Garthson
Bio

Jane Garthson is Prseident and Principal Consultant of Garthson Leadership Centre, dedicated to strengthening Canada 's nonprofit organizations through enhanced leadership, ethics and technology.

Jane is a founding member and past Chair of the Ethics Practitioners' Association of Canada and a member of the Chair's Advisory Council. Jane also serves as a Commissioner of the Ontario Racing Commission, which has a government mandate to enhance the integrity of horse racing in the public interest. She governs the Commission, directs and regulates the industry, and adjudicates appeals.

Jane writes a monthly ethics column for Village Vibes, the e-newsletter of Charity Village , and is writing a book on Leading with Integrity, focused on nonprofits. Her ethics services include confidential executive coaching on urgent ethical dilemmas, development and implementation of organizational ethics programs, training in ethical decision-making, diagnosis of ethical strengths and weaknesses, ethics oversight, and ethics evaluations. From 2002 to 2004, Jane sat on the Ethics Review Committee of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation.

Jane is a senior consulting associate of EthicScan Canada . In the fall of 2002, Jane organized the programming for a two-day conference on Managing Integrity and Accountability in Government, Crown Agencies and Civil Society, part of EthicScan Canada 's Ethical Leadership Week. During that week, she trained participants at a one-day workshop on Social & Ethics Auditing, and spoke on best practices in accountability and ethical partnerships.

Other audiences for Jane's ethics training include the Aga Khan Foundation, International Institute of Public Ethics, United Way of Greater Toronto, Canadian Society of Association Executives, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Concordia University , Canadian Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, Bayer Manufacturing and Ontario Community Support Association.

12-29-2004