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Welcome to the Paul Maillet CENTER FOR ETHICS
If you have a passion for organizational ethics and
making a difference, you are invited to join our group. We share a like-minded view of positive and
constructive approaches to organizational ethics and social responsibility that
reflects respect, integrity and compassion.
We have many interests; from consultant project
work, to advocacy, to pro bono work. We
consult, dialogue, network, teach and we socialize.
We are a company of associates, partners,
licensees, clients and friends.
If we share common values and a passion for making
a difference in any way, contact us.
Paul Maillet
“We
specialize in applications of
Business, Government and Organizational Ethics”
Who are we?
This is a
privately owned company that specializes in providing clients with services and
support in business, government or organizational ethics. Established in 2001, this company has
expertise based on the hard practical experience of developing and implementing
an ethics programs in a large organizations or governments. We believe in service, advocacy and
education.
This company operates
either through the principal Paul Maillet, or through associates, alliances and
collaboration with other ethics practitioners and consultants for larger
projects.
Our clients include various
Federal Government Departments, First Nations Communities and international
governments.
The concepts and techniques
we employ are user friendly, cooperative and non-threatening. We provide a variety of services including
executive awareness, a tool-box, decision-making approaches, and a means of
moral voice and compliance. We tailor approaches
to client needs. We are
affordable. This is more than a
business to us. It is a way we can help
others, to give something back in return for the rights and freedoms that we
enjoy in liberal democratic societies.
About Paul Maillet
Paul is a specialist in the field of organizational ethics with extensive practical experience in the development and implementation of ethics strategies and programs. He is the sole proprietor and senior principal of “Paul Maillet CENTER FOR ETHICS”. He is a the former Director Integrity Services, and now an associate at “The Governance Network”, a company that specializes in governance development projects in international and national settings. Paul spent four years as Director of Defence Ethics in the Canadian Department of National Defence where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the Defence Ethics Program for over 100,000 military personnel, civilians, reserves and cadets.
Paul has extensive practical experience
and expertise in developing applications of
organizational ethics and internal disclosure mechanisms in public sector
departments, such as for Treasury Board Secretariat, Health Canada, Natural
Resources Canada, PSIO, DFAIT, PWGSC, CNSC, IRB, PIPSC, Citizenship and
Immigration Canada, CRA, CSPS, Auditor General, Veterans Affairs, Corrections
Canada, National Research Council, First Nations and others. Paul has also
provided advice and support in international ethics developmental projects,
recently to Belize and Iran.
Paul
has a background as a military professional, as a former Colonel in the Canadian
Air Force. During a 33-year career in
the aerospace engineering classification, he obtained extensive experience in executive management, aerospace engineering, technology
management, organizational ethics,
capital project management, defence contracting and quality management.
Paul is a former member
of the Board of Directors of Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada (EPAC)
and formerly on the Ethics Committee for CCIC (Canada Council for International
Cooperation). He is on the University
of Ottawa Educator’s Honour Roll 2005 for “Ethics in Governance” lectures and
sessions delivered at the MBA level. He is a
former member of such ethics related associations as, Transparency
International, the Ottawa Science and Technology Ethics Roundtable (OSTER), and
serving as a fellow of International Institute for Practical Ethics (IIPE), the
Ethics Officers Association, the Conference Board of Canada - Corporate
Responsibility and Ethics Council, and a former
member of the Board of Directors of US military JSCOPE (Joint Services
Conference on Practical Ethics). He has contributed
to the Canadian Government Treasury Board Office of Values and Ethics, and is a
former member of the Federal Co-champions Steering Committee on federal
government ethics. Paul has conducted
numerous workshops, presentations and speaking engagements, and is the author
of various articles, and reference material on the subject of organizational
ethics.
“What we believe
in!”
Our Mission Statement
1.
To contribute to the
ethical conduct of governments, organizations and business.
2. To foster ethical conduct and human rights through
local, national or international opportunities
3.
To advocate the highest standards of social, economic and
environmental responsibility.
Our Value Statement
·
We are committed to
providing our clients with the best ethics and integrity services and support
available. We are committed to complete
client satisfaction.
·
We are committed to a
mutually professional relationship with our clients, a relationship that is
respectful, honest, and fair.
·
We
believe in expanding governance, leadership, workplace practices and
stakeholder relationships to include ethics and values. We believe in creating supportive
environments that aim to “help good people do the right thing.”
·
We
believe in a healthy balance of ethics, environmental responsibility and
sustainable development.
·
We
believe in the human values of respect, honesty, compassion and responsibility. We will deal with all persons in a manner that
respects the dignity, rights and freedoms we enjoy as a society.
Our Supporting Principles
We believe that ethics in at the individual and
organizational levels is all about:
·
Doing the right thing.
·
Helping good people do the right thing.
·
Commitment to core values, honesty, fairness, respect and
responsibility.
·
Being a good company to work for.
·
Being a good company to do business with.
·
Being a business that makes a responsible difference in the
community.
·
A healthy organizational climate !!!
We believe that all
organizations must ask themselves just how good they and their people are at
understanding ethical expectations, ethical leadership, ethics awareness,
dialogue, ethical decision-making, ethical relationships, social
responsibility, voice and accountability.
“This
is about helping good people do the right thing”
We
understand the environment. We believe
that at the core of organizational ethical requirements is some type of
structured approach to ethics, be it an ethics program or ethics strategy that directly
touches the workplace. We believe that
the key to accountability and continuously achieving good business conduct
requires a coherent approach to ethics.
The depth and complexity of this approach depends on the risks that
exist and the size of the organization.
We appreciate the challenges faced by organizations with massive and
disparate cultures to accommodate, and who work in global settings, and who do
business in operational environments fraught with unique ethical dilemmas. We understand that most work environments
face the same social, diversity, fraud, harassment, conflict of interest, abuse
of power and employment equity issues.
We have
solutions. Simply, we seek to
orient your application of organizational ethics to ensure that all employees
perform their duties in accordance with the highest ethical standards and
manage their relationships in an ethical manner. We recommend the establishment of champion, supported by a
program policy and ethics office, who manages the Ethics Program with the aim
of better mitigating the ethical risks inherent in the organization, and
developing ways to continuously improve the ability to make ethical
decisions. We recommend a framework and
processes designed to maintain and improve the level of ethical conduct, a
framework that requires the active support of the entire organizational
community and the demonstrated commitment by implementing authorities. We advocate framework elements that include
a clear aim, a supporting structure, processes, resources and goals. We advocate process elements that are
comprised of ethical expectations, leadership, training, behaviour and
decision-making, moral voice, internal disclosure of wrongdoing,
accountability, compliance, and oversight.
We believe in a strong integration with internal disclosure, Conflict Management and disciplinary
systems to provide for safe reprisal-free voice options. We believe that the heart of all ethics program
activities is ethical behaviour and decision-making, which should result in a
healthy balance of obeying rules and laws, seeking good consequences, the care
for others and the ability to live ethical values.
We believe that,
a minimum program at the working level should consist of an awareness
component, a risk management component, and a dialogue and voice
component. Complementing these
components should be an understanding that ethical decision-making is
influenced by the values, beliefs and moral development of the
individual, the intensity of the moral situation, and the ethical
climate of the organization. The
greatest influence that the leadership can have is to establish a supportive
climate that encourages and approves of right ethical decisions. We believe that leaders must expand their
professional abilities to include ethical risk management, conducting ethics
awareness and dialogue, and being able to handle ethics inquiries or casework.
We believe that
progress is continuous and long term, and in activity structured in general
renewal cycles. This may include rotating
annual cycles focusing first on domestic ethics (the internal
workplace), a cycle on operational ethics (the external client,
community, or public focus) and a cycle on training, implementation and
planning. We believe that ethics
training and awareness activity is necessary, supported by tools and techniques
toolkits and handbooks. We believe in
refreshing programs through internal conferences, also by taking advantage of
networking and liaison with other corporate or governmental departments, academic
conferences, corporate and international resources.
“Building integrity is about building trust”
Our company provides the full range of organizational
ethics and preventing wrongdoing development and implementation services,
in the wider context of strengthening governance and building integrity.
At the strategic level, we have the experience and capacity to
enter an organization (or at the national level) and initially assess their
ethics environment, their current progress and challenges, and respond to their
needs. We have the ability to conduct short or detailed evaluations
against global or national standards, conduct high level consultations, conduct
executive awareness focus sessions to gain consensus on a way forward, and
assist in policy and implementation strategy development. We can produce
written policy documents and annual reports for clients. We can conduct
measurement or survey activity.
At the implementation level, we have the experience and ability
to conduct activity which includes: train the trainer activity, the
development and delivery of training sessions, the development of toolkits and
promotional material, develop and provide for ethics week activity, providing
advice, and the setting up of ethics offices, facilitating ethics review boards
and case management.
At the preventing wrongdoing level; we have the ability to design and
deliver projects involving the set up internal disclosure offices and
frameworks, train disclosure staff, assist with casework, and conduct
organizational awareness sessions.
At the individual level, we have the ability to provide coaching
or advisory support.
At a national level we are able to work to align political,
public service, business sector, media, NGO, academia and civil societies with
ethics voice, transparency, disclosure, conduct and accountability guidelines
and aspirations.
“Our focus is providing
practical applications of business and government organizational ethics”
Organizational Ethics
There is no doubt that integrity is the
ultimate guarantor of responsible government and the honest use of public
funds. It is also the guarantor of good
corporate citizenship and an emerging key to global competitiveness. We believe in creating strategies and
support mechanisms that “help good people do the right thing”. We can help you implement global and
national standards relating to integrity in governance, leadership and
workplace practices. We offer full
spectrum integrity services from strategy development to implementation and
training support.
Ethics Competencies and capacity development
We provide programs to develop competencies at
national, organizational, executive, leader, workplace, practitioners, internal
disclosure, conflict of interest and trainer levels.
Professional Services
- Integrity
strengthening and corruption control
- National
governance strengthening and development
- Ethics
Evaluations and Assessments
- Ethics
Strategy and implementation planning
- Consensus
building and Implementation support
- Ethics
training and awareness
- Training
Design and development
- Ethics
Practitioner Coaching
- Ethics
management - Executive or leader coaching
- Leadership
and workplace development
- Train the
trainers
- Creating an
ethics practitioner’s community
- Ethics and
cultural accommodation
Ethics Presentations Courses, Workshops,
- Ethics and
Governance
- Developing
ethics strategies and frameworks
- Implementing the ethics mandate
- Ethics and
leadership development
- A core
Toolkit for ethics in the workplace
- Ethics decision making in the workplace
- Internal
Disclosure of wrongdoing and casework
- Reprisal
protection strategies
- Organizational
Ethics Competency Qualifications
Publications
Our services are supported by a variety of
organizational ethics toolkits, publications and workbooks that we have
developed and for which we have intellectual property rights, that cover:
- Ethics in
Governance
- Ethics and Values in the Workplace
- Internal Disclosure of Wrongdoing
- Ethics and
Values Training
- Ethics
Review Boards
- Small
Organization Applications
- Measurement
and Evaluation
- Administrative
Investigation
- Reprisal Protection
Toolkits
- Basic Workplace ethics
- Ethics in Governance
- Internal Disclosure
- Ethics Program Development
- Ethics Practitioners
- Ethics Coaching
- Ethics Measurement and evaluation
- Ethics case studies
- Conflict of Interest
- Cultural Accommodation
We will tailor to your
organizational context.
“We make a difference.”
- We are professional: We offer practical advice from
practical experience.
- We are client oriented. We offer
services in business compliance, Executive Awareness, Ethics Advice,
Program development support, Ethics Codes, Ethics training, Voice
mechanisms, Measurement, Dialogue and Decision making models, Ethics day
model, Ethics Casework, Ethics Workshops, Focus sessions, Reference
material, Ethics assessments, Surveys, and more.
- We are flexible. We offer a flexible session
design capacity that can be held on or off-site. Contract work can be conducted in the client workplace if
desired. All services are tailored
to client needs. Unique client
services can be developed on request.
- We are affordable. Our fee structure is based on daily rates, plus reasonable
expenses, (travel, meals, accommodations, printing, ie, of handouts or
reports, etc), plus GST/PST as applicable. The costs or content of all services and products are
subject to change at any time depending on production costs, demand or
client requirements. Rates and fees are available on
request.
- We do pro-bono work. We will support selected non-profit causes
consistent with our mission and ethics statement, on a voluntary and time
available basis. This may include:
advocacy activities, offering expert advice, panel or speaker services at
conferences or meetings, offering staff support, awareness presentations
and other services on a case merit basis.
Preference is given to opportunities in the local Ottawa area. This company will also provide promotional
presentations of company services, as mutually convenient to prospective
or potential clients.
- We are active in the community. The Center may offer cost
recovery or free opportunities for social responsibility and ethics
dialogue or advice.
We have friends, associate,
licensees, clients and partners.
If you wish to meet us or be
associated with us, contact us ….
“You have choices.”
As an associate
Be a
consultant with the Center. Be a
participant of our consulting projects in accordance with our associate
agreement. We have a training and
certification process. Call us for details and a copy of the associate
agreement.
As a learning associate
A limited
number of volunteer learning positions are available for students or persons
wanting to learn the practical aspects of organizational ethics
development. Although a non-paying
association, the opportunity may arise for paying project work.
As a licensee
Be your
own consultant company. Develop your
own client base. Take advantage of our developed and tested proprietary
material, training and support. Market
and conduct your own consulting projects in accordance with our licensing
agreement. Call us for details and for
a copy of the licensee agreement.
As a partner
Together
our capacity is greater. Do you have
a company or consultancy with shared interests or complementary
capacities? Do you wish an arms length
arrangement with us? Do you have a
project we can help you with? Perhaps
we have projects that may benefit from your company and expertise?
As a client
Can we
help you? Do we share common
values? If you wish to explore
possibilities, contact us.
As a friend
For
networking and socialization. Join our
mailing list and be invited to any social events typically over coffee, at
various locations, discussing subjects in relation to organizational ethics,
ethical relationships, and perhaps organize or assist in some pro bono projects
of community or OE community benefit.
There is no cost to this, other than such as restaurant meals, if such a
venue is selected.
Paul
Maillet Center
for ethics
A Canadian Company … We care ….
Telephone:
1-613-841-9216
Cell Phone: 1-613-866-2503
Email: pmaillet@magma.ca
Website:
magma.ca/~pmaillet
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