Professional governance (PG) is the renewed term describing the transformative four core attributes of accountability, professional obligation, collateral relationships and decision making of shared governance (SG). The primary purpose of this project was to identify the positive core characteristics of a top performer SG interprofessional group via the analysis of their governance process. Further, to identifying transformative steps by which groups wishing to improved SG processes and transition to PG can apply lessons learned into current governance structures.