Ethical leadership, in the decisions people actually face
Ethics as decision design under pressure, not as a values poster. The four stages of ethical drift, and the gates that interrupt it before it becomes a headline.
Speaking · Dr. Charles Igwe
Book Charles for your stage.
Conferences, leadership summits, association events, executive offsites and universities. Charles brings the same body of work the Curated Leadership Experience is built on, shaped for your room and your audience rather than delivered off a shelf.
Looking to speak on a CI3 Fireside instead? That is the other direction, and it is free: apply to speak on a Fireside.
Signature talks
What Charles is booked to talk about.
Five bodies of work, each one delivered to real rooms rather than assembled for a brochure. Any of them flexes from a forty-five minute keynote to a half-day workshop.
Leadership under pressure
What happens to judgment when the timeline compresses, the information is partial and somebody has to decide anyway. Built for teams carrying real consequence.
Strategic project and portfolio leadership
Delivery noise, megaproject judgment and the difference between running a portfolio and reporting on one. Drawn from Charles's own research and practice.
Turning competence into influence
Why the most capable person in the room is often the least consulted, and what makes judgment legible to the people who decide.
The Competence Trap
The keynote behind the book: how being reliably good at the work becomes the reason you are never moved past it, and how leaders get out.
How it is delivered
Four formats, one body of work.
The material is the same. What changes is how long the room has, and how much of it the room does itself.
Keynote
One argument, carried the whole way, with the room's own context worked into it beforehand. Q&A on request.
Workshop
The same material with the practice attached: the frameworks applied to decisions your team is carrying right now.
Panel or fireside
Charles chairs the CI3 Fireside Series monthly, so a moderated conversation is home ground rather than a favour.
Guest lecture
Built for a syllabus rather than a stage: the research behind the practice, with reading that stands up to a seminar.
On video
See Charles on stage before you book him.
Full talks and excerpts from previous engagements, so you can judge the room before you book it.
Recordings are being added here as they are cleared for sharing. In the meantime, every CI3 Fireside conversation Charles has chaired is in the Library.
Rooms already walked into
Who Charles has spoken for.
Organisations that have hosted, partnered on or backed this work.
I came in expecting a talk about ethics and left with a way to make decisions I could actually defend on a Monday.
He does not perform leadership at you. He puts the problem on the table and makes the room do the work.
Named references are available on request.
One conversation, no order form
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