Our story
Vision
To be the Centre of excellence in the enhancement of governance and business leadership
Mission
To provide quality consulting in corporate governance and leadership development to our clients on an effective and dynamic forum with world class facilities.
Chairperson
Canaan is a lawyer and corporate leader who holds an LLB (Hons) (Unilag);
LLB (UZ); and MBA (MSU) degrees. He is a former President of the Law Society
of Zimbabwe, a former Councilor of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association
and a former External Examiner for Procedural Law at the Law Faculty of the
University of Zimbabwe. He was until December 2016 Council Chairman of the
Midlands State University, and is the current Chairman of Delta Corporation
Ltd and a director of several companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
Canaan is a renowned commercial lawyer with considerable experience on
corporate leadership mandates as well as all forms of national and cross
border investment work, and is registered and practising as such in both
Zimbabwe and Botswana.
He lectures Business Leadership at Midlands State University’s MBA Graduate
School of Business Leadership. Canaan has considerable experience in
corporate governance and boasts of fine report writing skills, having authored
a World Bank funded report on the Zambezi River Authority entitled “What the
Zambezi River Authority needs to realize its full potential – the Harmonisation
Agenda” (December 2013). More importantly he has written a book entitled
“Corporate Governance Non-Executive Director’s Independence – Fact or Fiction”
(2008) and the National Code on Corporate Governance in Zimbabwe (2014).
Canaan is also the founder and Chairman of Quality Corporate Governance
Centre (Pvt) Ltd t/a Zimbabwe Leadership Forum (“Zimlef”), the first of its kind in
Zimbabwe. Representing Zimlef Canaan has not only presented numerous
papers but chaired and facilitated numerous workshops on corporate
governance issues both in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa region focusing inter
alia on corporate governance principles, roles and responsibilities of directors
and ethical leadership.
Chairperson's Profile
Background
Founded in 2009, QCGC was created to respond to a rapidly growing demand from Senior Executives, Boards and their Committees for direct access to objective and independent advice in a rapidly changing environment.
The founder and chairman Canaan F Dube is renowned corporate lawyer and business leader with over 30 years experience. Canaan has been advising Leaders and Executives since the warly 1980s on how best to respond to issues they face. C.F Dube is also an internationally renowned speaker and author on govenance issues and practice. He initiated drafting of Zimbabwe`s Code on Corporate Governance and is the chairman of the National Code on Corporate Governance Board. In 2010, he published the first book called Non-Executive Director Independence.