CI3 Leadership Academy

Ethical Leadership, level by level.

Ethical leadership is decision design under pressure. The Academy teaches it in two levels: Foundations gives you the model and names the drift while it's happening; Under Pressure puts you inside twelve weeks of it, gamified as the Control Room — live today, no cohort wait.

  • Level 1 · On-demand cohort
  • Level 2 · Self-paced, live now
  • Developed by Dr. Charles Igwe
  • Certificate pathway

Level 1 · Foundations

Four modules. One discipline.

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.

01

Seeing drift in real time

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.

PressureRationalizationSilenceNormalization
Opens with cohort 1
02

The four integrity gates

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.

Opens with cohort 1
03

Designing decisions people can rely on

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.

Opens with cohort 1
04

Practicum: the Ethical Drift Compass

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 both levels build on.

Available now

Level 2 · Under Pressure · ELP 1201

Twelve weeks. Live in the room.

Foundations teaches you the model. Under Pressure puts you inside it: a 12-week vocational certificate rebuilt as the Control Room — the same four Integrity Gates from Level 1, now a mechanic you run every week, with a live Trust Score, a Drift Meter that reacts to every choice, 14 badges from Orientation to Graduation, and a points store. No cohort start date: sign in and begin now.

14

Orientation through Graduation

All 14 modules playable in order or explored freely — a baseline diagnostic, twelve weekly missions anchored to real public-inquiry cases, and a graduation mission that unlocks once the other thirteen are complete.

Trust ScoreDrift Meter4 Integrity Gates14 Badges
Live now — self-paced

The spine of both levels

Ability → Legal → Ethics → Values.

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. Level 1 teaches you the four gates; Level 2 makes you run them, live, every week.

Gate 1Ability

Can we actually do this — competently, with the people and time we really have?

Gate 2Legal

Is it allowed — by law, by regulation, by the agreements we have signed?

Gate 3Ethics

Is it right — not merely permitted? Who carries the cost if we are wrong?

Gate 4Values

Can we live with it — and say it out loud, to the people we say we serve?

Level 1 enrolment

Reserve your seat in cohort 1.

Level 1's 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. Level 2 is different: there's no cohort to wait for — sign in and start the Control Room today.

While you wait for cohort 1

The mirror is already open, and so is the room.

The Compass practicum is live today, and your result points to the room, the reading, and the next step that fits it. Level 2 doesn't wait for a cohort either — the Control Room is playable now.