A Certified Secretary (CS) is trained, examined, certified and deemed competent in a number of key roles & responsibilities, namely board services, governance, compliance, administration, public policy, ethics, integrity, communication & records management. 

All members of the Institute, currently standing at about four thousand (4,000), are trained and competent on matters of governance, corporate secretarial practice, compliance, management, administration, advisory, consultancy, corporate recovery, and insolvency.