• advice to exceed your legal obligations, avoid risk, prevent scandals, and be a good, successful organization;
• development, implementation, management and evaluation of ethics, good governance, transparency, responsibility and sustainability plans, codes, policies and training programs;
• enforcement of these codes and policies (as ombudsman or ethics/integrity/sustainability officer or commissioner);
• advice on relations with stakeholders affected by these plans, codes and policies, and;
• development, implementation, management and evaluation of stakeholder consultation processes.

As one of Canada’s top advocates of good governance for more than 20 years, Duff Conacher (LL.B.) has the following wealth of expertise and experience to help your organization succeed:

• author of more than 10 leading reports on ethical business, including the most detailed evaluation ever completed of the ethics and accountability of Canadian financial institutions;
• author of more than 30 leading reports on government ethics and good government, including the most detailed evaluations ever completed of the integrity of Canada’s federal government for the 2007, 2008 and 2010 Global Integrity Reports;
• from 2011-2014, Adjunct Professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law teaching course he developed -- Law of Good Governance and Ethics in Government and Business;
• from 2014 on, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa teaching 5 courses he developed, including Applied Political Ethics course, and Governance and the Non-profit Sector course;
  
• functionally bilingual in French, and proficient in Spanish;
• worked for Government of Ontario for total of 1.5 years in policy and legal positions;
  
• as Coordinator and Board member of Democracy Watch, participated as the main citizen group stakeholder in more than 20 Canadian government policy-making processes since 1994, which resulted in 30 corporate responsibility changes and more than 90 government ethics and good government changes to federal and provincial laws, including the establishment of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner and the Commissioner of Lobbying;
• advisor to more than 10 organizations on how to ensure their actions and decisions are ethical;
• has advised several federal and provincial Canadian political parties on good government proposals and election platforms since 1994;
• expert in public and stakeholder consultation processes;
• author of the best-selling books Canada Firsts and More Canada Firsts which involved researching how more than 300 Canadians became the best in the world in their field, and;
• with an L.L.B. and the above experience, can research and advise on all aspects of any organizational good governance plan.