Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
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Description
Learn, network, and explore real-life stories of ethical dilemmas while enhancing your knowledge for better decision-making.
Join us virtually on the morning of December 4th to discover practical insights from live discussions with industry experts on the integration of the CPA Code of Conduct.
What You’ll Gain:
- Build Ethical Confidence. Equip yourself and your team with the tools to recognize, address and navigate complex ethical challenges with clarity.
- Future-Proof Your Workflows with AI. Explore how ethics, AI and accountability intersect to shape the future of leadership in today’s evolving business landscape.
- The Intersection of Ethics and Leadership. Discover the expert strategies behind today’s most effective leaders: empathy, integrity and ethics in action.
- Real Stories. Real Solutions. Discover practical lessons from real ethical challenges that give you an edge as a trusted leader.
Consider ways you can continue to protect the public interest by adhering to the five fundamental principles of ethics: professional behavior, integrity and due care, objectivity, professional competence, and confidentiality.
Group Savings: Register a group of 3 or more and save 25% on your registrations when you use promo code: EthicsGroup at checkout. Note: cannot be combined with other promotions or Passport.
Agenda
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| 8:00 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. | Networking |
| 8:40 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Host Welcome Remark by Amanda Abraham, Director of Member Experience, CPA Ontario | Talent Development | Learning Strategy | Instructional Design | Facilitator | Coach |
| 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
Opening Keynote: Carl Oxholm, FCPA, FCA, COC, Founder and CEO at Virtue Compass Inc. Topic: Ethical Leadership Ethical leadership isn’t just a philosophical ideal—it’s a daily discipline, especially in professions built on trust, precision, and accountability. In this keynote, Carl explores how self-awareness, empathy, and the courage to admit what we don’t know can elevate how we lead and collaborate. With real-world relevance for CPAs, this talk challenges attendees to examine the habits, values, and energy they bring to complex situations—especially when the stakes are high. Expect practical tools, fresh insights, and a candid look at how ethical alignment can strengthen decision-making, reduce risk, and create a ripple effect of integrity across teams and organizations. Key Takeaways:
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| 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Monique Mackinnon, CEO l Investigator l Speaker | Corporate Trainer Topic: Mastering Your Inner Sleuth: 5 Steps to Developing Investigative Foresight Successful ethical problem-solving and investigations begin with knowing your sleuth strengths and trusting your instincts. With 55% of accountants witnessing unethical behavior, learn how to sharpen both your investigative edge and ethical compass while managing different personalities and upholding professional standards. Discover why psychological availability is your secret weapon: critical decisions and key evidence surface naturally when you achieve this mental clarity. Become a proactive sleuth who gains credibility as a trusted business partner. Key Takeaways:
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| 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Short Break |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Danny Weill, MBA, Q.Med., Executive Vice President at ALIAS Topic: Best Practices in Ethics Reporting for your Clients Key Takeaways:
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| 11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Dr. Cindy Gordon, CEO, AI Data Scientist, AI Ethicist, Board Director Topic: The AI Precipice: The Challenges of Balancing Innovation and Responsible AI Key Takeaways:
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| 12:10 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. |
Closing Keynote: Joanna Gualteiri, Lawyer and Prominent Canadian Whistleblower Topic: Blowing the Whistle: The Assault on Free Speech Intensifies Whistleblowing at its essence, is the exercise of free speech rights to expose wrongdoing that threatens or harms the public interest. Whistleblowers are the essential conduit between institutional secrecy and the public’s right to know. An indispensable pillar of a free and democratic nation, whistleblowing emerged in response to President Nixon’s cover-up of criminal activity against his political opponents. America has led the charge. But where is Canada? Drawing on thirty years of experience including her landmark case against the Federal Government which exposed staggering taxpayer waste in Canada’s diplomatic corps, Joanna will chronicle how for five decades Canada’s successive governments have failed to provide even basic whistleblower protection. Joanna’s clarion call will be for us all to know that the risk of silence is great, and potentially lethal. Key Takeaways:
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| 12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Host Closing Remarks by Amanda Abraham, Senior Learning Manager, CPA Ontario | Talent Development | Learning Strategy | Instructional Design | Facilitator | Coach |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Networking |
Who Will Benefit
This conference applies to CPAs at all levels of their career and in any type of organization across a wide range of industries and roles.
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Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course is for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
How to Access the Conference
This CPA Ontario PD conference is hosted on the innovative RingCentral (formerly Hopin) platform. An email invitation with a link to join the event on the RingCentral platform will be sent closer to the date.
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Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
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Amanda Abraham is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (ACCA) and CPA Ontario. After qualifying in 2015, Amanda worked at professional services firms including PwC, BCG and Grant Thornton in internal and client-facing learning and development roles. Her areas of facilitation included financial reporting with a focus on IFRS and governance and ethics. She is Director of Member Experience at CPA Ontario and leverages her knowledge of the profession to develop meaningful initiatives for CPAs. |
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Carl Oxholm is the Founder and CEO of Virtue Compass Inc., helping leaders align energy with intention to perform at their best. A former senior partner at PwC Canada and an FCPA, he pioneered Emotional Intelligence programs and now speaks globally on leadership and ethics. His book, The Biology of Leadership, is recommended by Forbes as a must-read for anyone looking to lead with greater impact. More at: virtuecompass.com |
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Dr. Cindy Gordon is a globally recognized thought leader in AI and digital transformation. With a background spanning financial services, ePayments, and advanced technologies, she has held senior executive roles at Accenture, Citicorp, Xerox, and XDLI (venture capital), and led major transformation programs for Citibank, RBC, ING, and others. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Cindy has supported companies like Eloqua (acquired for $1.2B) and advises leading AI firms including Emotional Cloud and KAJI. She is also a passionate educator and board advisor, teaching AI strategy and governance, and serving on multiple global AI advisory boards. |
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Monique MacKinnon is an Ontario private investigator and CEO of Energetic Evolution. Monique MacKinnon serves premier organizations on complex leadership and workplace matters. Her work on strategic serendipity, including paper on decision-making beyond data and AI, earned the 2025 Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Award. She has spoken on ethics for ICPAS and WICPA and presented at the Global Innovation Summit in Dubai and the Global Conference on Business and Economics in Sarasota. Learn More Here. |
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Danny Weill is EVP at ALIAS, a leading organization in the field of ethics reporting and case management, where he has been instrumental in changing the ethics reporting and safe sport landscape in Canada. Prior to his work with ALIAS, Danny was an executive with LifeSpeak, a leading provider of workplace training and employee mental health services. He holds an MBA from McMaster University and a Q. Med designation with ADRIC. |
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Joanna Gualtieri was a trailblazer and leader in the whistleblowing movement in Canada. As a lawyer and the daughter of an ethics professor and parents active in human rights, Joanna strongly believed in exercising free speech rights to expose wrongdoing that threatens the public interest and trust. Working at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Joanna was stunned at the level of waste of hardworking Canadians’ tax dollars on opulent and excessively large and lavish diplomatic housing. In 1998, after six years of working internally in the Department to foster greater public stewardship and accountability, Joanna blew the whistle publicly and launched a landmark legal case against the Canadian Government and senior officials. The case was actively litigated by the Justice Department for twelve years making it the longest running case in the Ottawa courthouse before the Government sought to quietly settle the case just prior to it going to trial. At the same time, Joanna established FAIR — the Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform — and assisted countless whistleblowers from across the country. Joanna was honoured to serve and Chair the Board of the world’s leading whistleblower organization — the Government Accountability Project (GAP), in Washington, DC. |





