“Ethics is essential to legendary leadership and sustainable success. Ethics is your greatest strategic opportunity. But left unheeded, ethics can become your greatest risk.”
–Susan Liautaud
Ethics for Leaders
Our custom-designed ethics advising equips clients to achieve peak performance ethically, to build a culture grounded in ethics and trust, and to solve their most complex ethical dilemmas with clarity and a pro-business/pro-innovation approach.
Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited is a solution-focused, strategic advisory on matters related to ethics. We believe that ethics is central to all operational components of an organization, including governance, reputational risk, and human resources.
For the past two decades, we have worked with for-profits, non-profits, governments, and academic organizations internationally. Our hallmarks are resilience (supporting clients’ objectives and reputations over time) and broad impact (ensuring benefits to clients and society at large). Our approach is custom-designed, interactive, and intended to address clients’ most complex challenges.
Ethics is the indispensable, single-word foundation for individual, organizational, and societal resilience
How We Work
Despite the feeling that ethics is everywhere––in news stories, social media posts, major university department listings, and dinner party discussions––we still frequently fail to integrate it clearly and effectively into our organizational and personal decision-making. We have honed a series of approaches that help us overcome these barriers:
20/20 Foresight: emphasizing long-term, rigorous decision-making and analysis that helps answer the question: “What do you want to be able to say you did today when looking back on today’s decisions and actions in two weeks, six months, one year, three years, and even 15 years in the future – even if problems arise and irrespective of external circumstances?”
Multi-sector: combining expertise gained from the business world, the non-profit sector, the public sector, and academia
Cutting Edge: focusing on the rapidly changing ethical challenges our clients face directly and see in the news
Global: including best practices, regulation concerns, cultural context, and consideration of the client’s reputation and opportunities in every decision making process, wherever they may be in the world.
Discreet: highest levels of confidentiality and discretion in all client matters
Advisory Services
Our work spans across multiple domains and across multiple types of medium, including projects, advisory capacities, seminars, and trainings. Reach out to see if we are a right fit:
- Ethics diagnostics and risk mitigation – across organizations or within specific units
- Ethics for innovation –ethical decision-making for cutting edge technologies, products and services
- Reputation protection –proactive efforts to protect reputation and mitigate reputation risk post-crisis for leaders and organizations
- Governance and risk management – review of governance and risk register for effective and proactive ethics oversight
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs – review of CSR programs to ensure ethical design, implementation, and evaluation
- Strategic planning – integration of ethical decision-making into the strategic planning process and ethics as a competitive strategy
- Crisis management – rapid response solutions to ethics-related crises for senior management and boards
- Regulatory challenges – establishing an ethical foundation for companies and/or specific products or services to fend off excessive regulation and build constructive relationships with regulators
- Ethics policies and codes – design of cutting edge ethics policies and codes; review of existing policies and codes
- Communication Review – Advise on client speeches and written communications, conferences, and events to ensure they uphold the highest level of ethical standards.