About Chris MacDonald, Ph.D.

Chris MacDonald, Ethics ConsultantI’m a Toronto-based ethics consultant, speaker, and educator. My goal is to help organizations tame complex ethical issues.

As an ethics consultant, I can help with:

  • Ethics education and training;
  • Conflict of interest training and policy development;
  • Developing your own Code of Ethics or Code of Conduct;
  • The values and ethics dimensions of corporate governance;
  • Assessing the “ethical climate” of your workplace.
  • Confidential ethics advice, opinions, and coaching.

For more on each of these, click on “Services” above.


More about me:
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy, and a proven track-record as a communicator. I’m a university professor, and have been for the last decade. I’m currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto’s Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness, at the Rotman School of Management, as well as a Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics.

I’ve provided educational and ethics consulting services to corporate boards, professional associations, hospitals, startup companies, major charitable foundations, and to the Canadian military. I’ve been a keynote speaker at national and international conferences. I’ve been called one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” and I have been declared one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics,” three years in a row.

For several years, now, I’ve been the author of The Business Ethics Blog, the world’s #1 blog on that topic.