Executive Ethics Awareness Course
This course helps executives and senior leaders develop the foresight and critical awareness needed to identify and act on ethical risks before they become crises. Drawing from behavioral ethics, organizational psychology, and real-world case studies, the course equips participants with the tools to recognize blind spots, strengthen personal integrity, and embed ethics into decision-making and systems. Through structured lessons, practical tools, and reflective activities, leaders will learn to lead with ethical clarity in uncertain and high-pressure environments.
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Lesson 1.1: What Are Ethical Blind Spots?
This lesson introduces the foundational concept of ethical blind spots and explores why even ethical, competent leaders can fail to perceive unethical behaviors. The lesson draws from behavioral ethics and cognitive science to explain how selective attention, overconfidence, and situational pressures can impair ethical awareness.
This lesson introduces the foundational concept of ethical blind spots and explores why even ethical, competent leaders can fail to perceive unethical behaviors. The lesson draws from behavioral ethics and cognitive science to explain how selective attention, overconfidence, and situational pressures can impair ethical awareness.
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Lesson 1.2: Sources of Blind Spots in Leadership and Culture
This lesson shifts the focus from individual psychology to organizational dynamics. It shows how cultures, norms, and incentives create ethical blind spots that can spread systemically through teams and departments.
This lesson shifts the focus from individual psychology to organizational dynamics. It shows how cultures, norms, and incentives create ethical blind spots that can spread systemically through teams and departments.
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Lesson 2.1: Anticipating Ethical Risk in Strategic Decisions
This lesson teaches leaders to recognize ethical dimensions in strategic planning, innovation, growth, and crisis response. It introduces foresight tools to assess long-term risks to values, people, and purpose.
This lesson teaches leaders to recognize ethical dimensions in strategic planning, innovation, growth, and crisis response. It introduces foresight tools to assess long-term risks to values, people, and purpose.
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Lesson 2.2: Personal Responsibility and Accountability at the Top
This lesson underscores the moral obligations of senior leaders and how their actions and behaviors shape the ethical environment. It focuses on executive accountability, personal example, and acting decisively when faced with ethical complexity.
This lesson underscores the moral obligations of senior leaders and how their actions and behaviors shape the ethical environment. It focuses on executive accountability, personal example, and acting decisively when faced with ethical complexity.
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Lesson 3.1: Tools and Frameworks for Ethical Decision-Making
This lesson provides leaders with structured frameworks that enhance ethical clarity, reduce bias, and enable defensible decision-making. Participants learn how to integrate ethical questions into their everyday executive toolkit.
This lesson provides leaders with structured frameworks that enhance ethical clarity, reduce bias, and enable defensible decision-making. Participants learn how to integrate ethical questions into their everyday executive toolkit.
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Lesson 3.2: Strengthening Ethics Through Organizational Systems
The final lesson explores how to sustain ethical behavior through governance, internal systems, reporting, and feedback. Ethics isn’t a department—it’s a system embedded in how the organization runs.
The final lesson explores how to sustain ethical behavior through governance, internal systems, reporting, and feedback. Ethics isn’t a department—it’s a system embedded in how the organization runs.
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Final Outcome: Ethical Leadership in Practice
The goal is not just ethical compliance—but the capacity to lead ethically in complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes environments.
The goal is not just ethical compliance—but the capacity to lead ethically in complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes environments.
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Sample Organizational Audit Tool
This diagnostic tool is designed to help executives and senior leaders evaluate the current state of their organization’s ethical readiness. It focuses on identifying strengths, gaps, and vulnerabilities in ethical awareness, leadership, systems, and culture. The audit is structured to prompt critical reflection and guide practical improvements toward building a resilient, values-aligned organization.
This diagnostic tool is designed to help executives and senior leaders evaluate the current state of their organization’s ethical readiness. It focuses on identifying strengths, gaps, and vulnerabilities in ethical awareness, leadership, systems, and culture. The audit is structured to prompt critical reflection and guide practical improvements toward building a resilient, values-aligned organization.
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Values Alignment Checklist Tool
To help leaders and decision-makers assess whether a proposed action, policy, decision, or initiative aligns with the core values and ethical commitments of their organization.
To help leaders and decision-makers assess whether a proposed action, policy, decision, or initiative aligns with the core values and ethical commitments of their organization.