The Garthson Leadership Centre provides values-based leadership services to charities and other organizations that exist to improve their communities – and their community may be the world. Services to such nonprofit organizations include:
Serving as an interim leader during leadership transitions.
Reviewing governance and recommending governance changes, including advice to your bylaws task force and lawyer.
Facilitating creation or review of Vision, Values and Mission statements.
Developing strategic plans and enhancing strategic thinking.
Providing leadership training in governance, ethics and planning, including for individuals supporting board decision-making and fundraising.
Preparing or reviewing governance policies and policy manuals.
Holding stakeholder consultations to obtain ideas, perspectives and decision support from clients/users, members, staff, peers, suppliers, partners, oversight bodies, critics and local communities.
Preparing ethics policies, including Codes of Conduct, Codes of Ethics, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Reporting (whistle-blowing).
Providing strategic support for partnership decisions.
Evaluating social responsibility and/or ethics practices in relation to corporate policies and to industry, national or international standards.