1. Responsible Stakeholder Engagement

    Who deserves a seat at the table? Whose interests should be considered, and what weight do they carry?  Our approach to responsible stakeholder engagement ensures…

  2. Equitable Change Management

    Compass specializes in equitable change management, which is designed to ensure that transformations in organizations support everyone affected, no matter their position or role. …

  3. Guiding Principles

    Guiding principles keep an organization on course amid inevitable ethical tensions and trade-offs. Companies without guiding principles run the risk of wasting time, talent,…

  4. Corporate Stance

    Businesses are increasingly expected to speak out on controversial social issues and clarify their positive social impact. But how can you develop positions that balance disagreements among…

  5. Why Your Hospital Needs Access to a Clinical Ethicist.

    There is overwhelming evidence that clinical ethicists provide tremendous value for patients, care teams, and hospitals. Where once clinical ethicists were only available at…

  6. When Helping Hurts: What the FTX crash reveals about ethics in business

    How do you use business to do good in the world? One recent approach, innovated by the Effective Altruism (or EA) movement, is earning…

  7. Four Steps To Patient – Centered Care

    Patient-centered care is about providing care that aligns with the patient’s values: i.e., it’s care the patient actually wants and will benefit from. Despite…

  8. What It’s Like To Work With Philosophers

    Not long ago, I was having a working lunch in San Francisco with two of our consultants here at Compass—Dr. Jeremy Davis and Dr….

  9. Corporate Giving: A Tyranny Of Generosity?

    Corporations typically donate 1% of pre-tax income to charitable causes. Many people think this is too meager, and it’s not hard to see why. The…

  10. The New Standard of Corporate Responsibility

    Companies have always had a duty to their shareholders. They’ve always had moral duties as well, but they did not always have to act…