CI3 Leadership Academy · Level 1 · Foundations
Ethical leadership is decision design under pressure. This course teaches you to see ethical drift while it is happening — in yourself and on your team — and to build the discipline that interrupts it, from the Ethical Drift Model to the four integrity gates.
The curriculum
The course follows the arc of drift itself: first you learn to see it, then to interrupt it, then to design decisions that don't depend on heroics. The practicum is live today; the taught modules open with the first Academy cohort, and enrolling below reserves your seat for all of them.
The Ethical Drift Model. Nobody decides to compromise; they drift there through four recognisable stages — pressure, rationalization, silence, normalization. You learn to name the stage you are standing in while there is still time to step back.
A decision that matters passes four gates in order — Ability → Legal → Ethics → Values — and drift is usually a gate quietly skipped. You learn to run the gates fast enough that they survive a deadline.
Discipline that lives in one person's character leaves with them. This module turns the gates into team practice: invited challenge, visible correction, and decision habits that hold up when you are not in the room.
The course's mirror, available now. Twenty-five statements, about six minutes, and a private report showing where you drift first and which gate you tend to skip — the baseline the taught modules build on.
The spine of the course
Four questions, asked in order, before a decision leaves your desk. Most failures of integrity are not a wrong answer — they are a gate that never got asked.
Can we actually do this — competently, with the people and time we really have?
Is it allowed — by law, by regulation, by the agreements we have signed?
Is it right — not merely permitted? Who carries the cost if we are wrong?
Can we live with it — and say it out loud, to the people we say we serve?
Enrolment
The taught modules open with the first Academy cohort. Leave your details and you will be first to know the start date — and your Compass result, if you take it now, becomes your course baseline.
While you wait
The Compass practicum is live today, and your result points to the room, the reading, and the next step that fit it.
