Kelly Donovan

Kelly Donovan

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Wasaga Beach, Ontario

Canadian Police Whistleblower against an impenetrable system to improve the ethical standard

Kelly Donovan is a Canadian Police Whistleblower who challenged unethical decisions being made by leadership and faced harsh reprisal. Kelly Donovan advocates for whistleblower protection in Canada and works to improve the ethical standard in workplaces. She educates audiences about the currency of ethics and moral courage while normalizing conversation about the mental health injuries that result from the decisions we make when faced with an ethical dilemma.

KELLY DONOVAN BIOGRAPHY

While employed as a police officer, Kelly Donovan did what she thought was her obligation and made a disclosure to the board that there were unethical practices within the police force’s internal affairs division.  As a result, she faced retaliation.  Kelly resigned from policing and published her first book titled The Systemic Misfeasance in Ontario Policing and the Coordinated Suppression of Whistleblowers to expose the problems facing modern day policing.

Kelly Donovan advocated for better protections for police whistleblowers in Ontario and effectively influenced law changes so that officers can now anonymously report internal misconduct. Throughout Kelly’s journey she has been recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder and she educates audiences about moral injury and sanctuary trauma. Kelly has become an expert on all issues relating to whistleblowing and suppressive workplace cultures. Even after resigning from the profession, Kelly continued to face reprisal for crossing the “thin blue line.”

Kelly Donovan was the 2019 Ontario Civil Liberties Award recipient and succeeded before the Ontario Court of Appeal as a self-represented litigant. Kelly published her second book in 2020, Police Line: Do Not Cross, Silencing a Canadian Police Whistleblower. Kelly Donovan now provides workplaces with third-party whistleblower program administration to improve the ethical standard of workplaces across Canada.

She holds a degree in statistics from the University of Western Ontario where she was also a varsity rugby player.  Kelly’s story of staying true to one’s internal set of ethics and morals has inspired front-line workers to senior management on topics such as workplace courage, and the effects of trauma in the workplace.

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"ethics unlimited"

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  • Having experienced an ethical dilemma herself and choosing to speak out despite the pressure to stay within the thin blue line, Kelly has become an expert on how fear can persuade people to sacrifice their morals. You can’t train someone to behave ethically and with integrity at all times, and you can’t teach courage. You won’t ever be immune to an ethical scandal, but there are ways to inspire and encourage a high ethical standard.

leaving our comfort zone of status quo

the whistleblower’s gift

Kelly Donovan travels from Wasaga Beach, Ontario & delivers customized and tailored keynote speeches, presentations, workshops and training sessions. on the topics enlisted below. These services are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, and event types and event formats.

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Kelly is a captivating Speaker! She is confident and engaging! Fearless and Courageous! Her story is shocking and Sad. Kelly would have been a huge asset to any Service she worked for

Tammy Felts, Specialized Security Consultant

Congratulations and well done. You obviously know what you have ignited. If it’s anything less than a firestorm then I will be surprised. It never fails to astound me how insulated majorities can fool themselves and believe that they are fooling everybody else as well. What you are doing has needed doing for a very long time. Hang in there, it will get rough

Anonymous

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