Services

A Trusted Partner

We offer extensive experience handling all facets of Ethics & Compliance, Workplace Investigations, Sustainability & ESG, and Human Resources. From strategic guidance to on-the-ground support, we listen, then customize the right solution to fit your company needs. 

Ethics & Compliance

Whether updating your code of conduct, assessing potential conflicts of interest, or introducing ethics and compliance across the organization, we help build and implement an effective framework to meet specific business needs. Our success has proven that employee-focused, leader-driven ethics and compliance programs work.

Using in-person and on-line training, we share well-honed tools, processes, and resources to ensure effective stakeholder and organizational engagement. We also create a customized roadmap for continued success.

Let us apply our best practices in your organization to deliver results. Together, we can help create a culture grounded in integrity and ethical decision-making.

  • Establishing and Operationalizing Ethics & Compliance Programs

  • Code of Conduct and Policy Creation/Modification

  • Risk Assessments, Conflicts of Interest, Gifts & Entertainment Processes

  • Training/Speaking on Ethics & Compliance

  • Whistleblower Hotline Management and Investigations

  • Executive and Board Engagement Around Ethics & Compliance

Listen to John discuss, “How to Make your International Ethics Program Resonate Locally” while at GF, on the LRN Principles Podcast.

You received an anonymous, handwritten note alleging significant wrongdoing by one of your executive team members. You just learned a key manager may be engaging in abusive conduct in the office or on the warehouse floor. A member of your sales team claims she was harassed by an important customer at her last meeting. Unsure what to do with such sensitive employee complaints?

After conducting and managing hundreds of workplace investigations, we know how to handle high-risk sensitive matters. That includes the right steps to take in allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, disability discrimination, workplace theft, fraud and more. With extensive experience managing a global whistleblower hotline and full range of employee relations matters, we can help.

Workplace Investigations

Let us handle your investigation or be available for ongoing strategic counsel as you work through sensitive matters.

  • Workplace Investigations

  • Managing High-Risk, Complex and Sensitive Claims

  • Handling Harassment and Discrimination Concerns

  • Corrective Actions

  • Executive and Board Engagement Around Workplace Investigations

Executed well, an effective plan for Sustainability & ESG is increasingly recognized as a competitive advantage. How to get there? It starts with determining what is most important to your organization. Create a vision, appreciate regulatory trends and external pressures, set direction, establish meaningful metrics, coordinate resources, and then stick to the plan.

We bring real-world experience in establishing the Sustainability & ESG function. We can help create a framework for success and achieve leadership-level ESG ratings from influential third parties. Sharing our proven formula, we partner with you from start to finish to deliver results.

Sustainability & ESG

  • Establishing and Operationalizing Sustainability & ESG Programs

  • Corporate Responsibility Reports

  • Disclosures, Regulatory Requirements, Internal and External Promotion

  • IPO Readiness

  • Training/Speaking on ESG

  • Third-Party Rating Agencies

  • Executive and Board Engagement around Sustainability & ESG

Human Resources

Need help designing and implementing an effective organizational structure? Looking to transform the HR function to support your business? Seeking new solutions to develop talent, or manage the end-to-end life cycle of human capital, while maximizing productivity? Drawing on a wealth of HR success, we can work with your team or take on independent projects to meet and exceed your performance goals.

We bring experience assessing and transforming organizational support structures, coaching leaders and training and engaging managers and employees to facilitate change. Our systematic approach turns goals, processes, and technologies into accepted organizational reality.

From a family-owned business to multi-national corporation, we provide perspective, troubleshoot challenges, and supply proven tools to carefully plan and execute the kind of collaborative change that maximizes success.

  • Human Resource Leadership (Interim & Ongoing Consultation)

  • Collaborative Change Management

  • Positive Employee Relations

  • Organizational Design, Organization Development

  • Human Resources Transformation

  • Coaching (Early Career through Executive Level)

  • Leadership Development

  • Job Search Strategy & Interview Preparation

  • Training & Speaking on Range of HR Topics

  • Executive and Board Engagement around Human Capital

Let’s start with a conversation.