Brown Governance is the website of Debra and David Brown. Debra is editor of Governance Matters. Brown Governance works side-by-side with clients through governance software solutions, director development seminars, and custom board consulting.

Conference Board of Canada
For 25 years, The Conference Board of Canada has taken a leading role in researching and reporting on the directorship and governance practices of Canada's corporations.

Institute On Governance
Based in Ottawa, the Institute On Governance is a non-profit organization with charitable status founded in 1990 to promote effective governance.

James McRitchie's Corporate Governance
Since 1995, the Corporate Governance site has provided a variety of resources and served as a discussion forum and net work for stakeholders who believe active participation by shareowners in governing corporations will enhance their ability to create wealth.

John Carver's Policy Governance
Dedicated to John Carver's Policy Governance model.

National Association of Corporate Directors
Founded in 1977, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) is an educational, publishing and consulting organization in board leadership, as well as a membership association for boards, directors, director-candidates and board advisors.

KPMG (Audit Committee Institute)
Recognizing the challenge that audit committees face in meeting their demanding responsibilities, KPMG created the Audit Committee Institute (ACI) in 1999 to serve as a resource for audit committee members and senior management.

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation)
The OECD works with governments and the private sector to facilitate the emergence of a regulatory framework, institutional capacity for its enforcement and private sector practices and perceptions that enhance the development of a robust corporate sector and credible corporate governance arrangements.

University of Ottawa Centre on Governance Studies
The Centre is an umbrella organization acting as an observatory on emerging trends and experiments in the world of organizational and societal governance, and creating a network of scholars and practitioners from the public, private and civic sectors who are committed to seeking better responses to contemporary problems of governance encountered by organizations and societies.

The World Bank
The activities of the Bank in corporate governance focus on the rights of shareholders, the equitable treatment of shareholders, the treatment of stakeholders, disclosure and transparency and the duties of board members.

Books on Governance

Boards That Make a Difference. John Carver. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2nd ed., 1997.

Corporate Boards: Strategies for Adding Value at the Top by Jay Conger, Edward Lawler III, and David Finegold

Excellence in the Boardroom: Best Practices in Corporate Directorship by William Dimma and Marcelo Mackinlay

Governing Boards - Their Nature and Nurture by Cyril Houle.

Watching the Watchers: Corporate Governance for the 21st Century by Robert Monks and Neil Minow

Chairman of the Board: A Practical Guide by Brian Lechem

Basic Principles of Policy Governance by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carverand The Chairperson's Role as Servant-Leader to the Board by John Carver

Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom Insider Guidebook by Ralph Ward

Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century by Margaret M. Blair and Bruce K. MacLaury

The Soul of the Firm by C. William Pollard.

Women and Corporate Directorships in Canada: Trends and Issues by Karen Hughes' (paper written for the Canadian Policy Research Network).

Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Challenges and Opportunities (Issues in Business Ethics, No 14), edited by Ronald J. Burke and Mary C. Mattis.

Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work In Government and Nonprofit Organizations by Russell M. Linden.

Books on Leadership

Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader (San Francisco: John Wiley, 2003). This is a compilation of articles on leadership from the best thinking and biggest names in leadership on a wide range of subjects including ethics, change management, vision setting, becoming a leader, the roles of a leader, and the work of leadership.

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner (San Francisco: John Wiley, 2003).

Developing the Leader Within You, audiobook cassette by John Maxwell

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins

The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations by James M. Kouzes, James M. & Barry Z. Posner (San Francisco: John Wiley, Revised 3rd edition, 2002)

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey

Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work In Government and Nonprofit Organizations by Russell M. Linden.

Journals Governance and Leadership

Directors & Boards is a quarterly journal dedicated to the topics of leadership and corporate governance. Its readers are at the very pinnacle of business-board chairmen, CEOs and members of senior management, corporate board members, and board advisers.

The Harvard Business Review is available on-line by subscription.

The Ivey Business Journal has just gone on-line. For more than 70 years, the journal has delivered incisive, practical articles about managing to its readers.