Jane Garthson, Contributing Editor, Governance

Jane is Principal Consultant of Mills Garthson & Associates, dedicated to strengthening Canada's nonprofit organizations through enhanced leadership and ethics. She provides services in governance, hands-on transitional leadership, executive coaching, strategic planning, partnership development and organizational reviews. Sectors served include charities, associations, corporate marketing and philanthropy departments, collectives, co-operatives and governments. She was an Executive Director of a provincial amateur sport federation for almost three years, and, along with key volunteers, led a very successful turnaround.

She holds an honours certificate in Voluntary Management and Leadership from York University, and a national certificate from the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. Jane is a member of the Canadian Society of Association Executives, the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, BoardSource, the Coalition of Ontario Voluntary Organizations, ethicscentre.ca and IMAGINE.

Jane is a founding member and past Chair of the Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada, still serving on its Advisory Council and Education Committee. She has conducted ethics audits in the voluntary sector and ethics oversight in the public sector. Some of her ethics consulting and training is done as an associate of EthicScan Canada.

She currently volunteers on the Ethics Review Committee of the Canadian Council on International Co-operation, and continues to assist the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association, where which she recently completed three terms as Treasurer.

She trains, writes and speaks on topics such as Recruiting the Board of the Future, Best Practice Trends in Nonprofit Governance, Strategic Planning, Ethical Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making.