Alan Goodman

Institute for Global Ethics

For nearly 25 years the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) has focused its energies on helping people reason through the ethics of daily living by providing tools and frameworks to help analyze the world around them. Our goal is not to tell people what to think but to offer tools that help them with how to think through tough ethical issues. In recent years, we've expanded our methodology to focus both on individual attitudes and behaviors, but also on the contexts and cultures that must align and support individual efforts to act ethically. IGE has conducted a range of analytical projects to further the exploration of our methodology and practical applications. One of the first was a values survey commissioned by the State of the World Forum in 1996 carried out with help from the Gallup Organization. The project tested and confirmed our premise that diverse individuals think similarly about the core operating principles we should uphold. Since then, we have used similar surveys and developed other research tools across a variety of sectors including: businesses, nonprofits, government, professional associations, schools K – Graduate level. IGE has also provided a range of services to thousands of groups in a variety of contexts around the world. We always endeavor to learn from our delivery opportunities, advancing and strengthening our methodology as we go. Since we lead with concepts and tools we can readily customize our frameworks from group to group. Our interest is in providing effective tools and processes in every sector of society, worldwide. With an easily-adapted, inquiry-based approach, we can help every type of enterprise improve decision making and related behaviors, and improve discourse when decisions are challenging or divisive. Our tools are participatory by design, so that groups come together around what matters to them, setting the course for years to come and raising the bar on operations. Setting the standard for a better world.