Honey Dacanay

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Honey is a policy leader with expertise in public sector renewal and governance reform. She works with government leaders to create enabling conditions for digital transformation to succeed.

Honey has led large-scale policy and governance reform efforts in the Governments of Ontario and Canada, most recently with Service Canada and their agile governance pilot. She also co-founded the Ontario Digital Service and led the teams that enshrined the province’s digital standards into landmark legislation, streamlined governance, and removed line department and Treasury Board policy and process barriers to its implementation. All these achievements put her in Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government in 2019.

A Professor of Practice at McMaster University, Honey also co-authored the world's first open access graduate level Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age policy curriculum and oversaw the development of the Discover Series for 289,000+ public servants at the Canada School of Public Service's Digital Academy.

Ask Honey about:

  • Agile governance and policy development

  • Creating enabling conditions for digital teams

  • Developing and implementing digital standards

  • Data and impact measurement

  • Developing a talent strategy

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