The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.\r\n\r\n- The foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. \r\n- Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests. \r\n- Funded exclusively through the fees we charge for services to the private and public sectors. \r\n- Experts in running conferences but also at conducting, publishing, and disseminating research; helping people network; developing individual leadership skills; and building organizational capacity. \r\n- Specialists in economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues. \r\n- Not a government department or agency, although we are often hired to provide services for all levels of government. \r\n- Independent from, but affiliated with, The Conference Board, Inc. of New York, which serves nearly 2,000 companies in 60 nations and has offices in Brussels and Hong Kong.