Module overview
Clarify values, evaluate actions ethically, and connect power to responsibility.
Lessons
What Matters To You?
In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard gave away his billion-dollar company. He did not sell it. He did not leave it to his family. He transferred it to a trust so that every future dollar of profit would fight climate change. In this lesson you will learn how he built his values quietly over decades, notice the signals that reveal what matters to you, test those values against hard choices, and write a short values statement you can come back to.
Can I Or Should I?
In 2021, a Facebook product manager named Frances Haugen sat at her work laptop with full permission to copy internal research files. She could. The bigger question was whether she should. In this lesson you will learn the specific difference between 'can' and 'should', practise four simple ethical tests, reason through a real grey-area case, and build your own compact ethics card for future use.
Stakeholders And Consequences
In 1988, Anita Roddick flew to Brazil and walked into a Kayapo village in the Amazon rainforest to meet the people whose lives were being changed by the products her company bought from them. What she saw on that trip changed how The Body Shop was run for the next twenty years. In this lesson you will learn how to identify who is affected by a decision, map short-term and long-term consequences, compare the same choice from multiple stakeholder viewpoints, and produce a clear consequence memo.
Responsibility Without Supervision
Fred Rogers spent 33 years presenting a children's television show. The people who worked with him off camera said the most surprising thing about him was that he was exactly the same person off camera as on. In this lesson you will learn why character shows up in quiet choices, spot the patterns of real integrity, practise acting well when no one is watching, and write your own short character commitment statement.