Why focus on Integrity?

Integrity matters – in all parts of your life and work.

Acting with integrity is the only way that individuals and organizations can face tough issues, make wise choices and move forward to act with impact and trust.

What is Integrity?

Integrity Bridges Inc. defines integrity as the alignment of:

intention + commitment + action

Our Integrity Resource Centre shares practical tools, ideas and inspiration to help individuals, groups and organizations build integrity. We help you to understand and align:

  • intention – your motivation or intended purpose/objective;
  • commitment – your written and verbal commitments; and
  • action – your actions.

Where can you build Integrity Bridges?

Integrity Bridges Inc. is committed to helping you build integrity bridges within your organization, company or community. And, we believe it is even more important to build resilient integrity bridges between:

  • your company and local communities
  • citizens in your community and political decision-makers
  • activists and investors

Since 2001, Integrity Bridges Inc. has been helping organizations and communities build integrity bridges in more than thirty countries across the globe.

Why the Focus on Bridge-Building?

In the 21st century, we seem to excel at building specialized expertise within our individual organizations. Think about the knowledge silos flourishing within the global banking sector or the international energy sector. Little wonder we are unsure of what exactly to do when these complex systems fail. Where we need to focus, going forward, is simulating creative dialogue between individual organizations…between these knowledge silos. This is not easy work. Yet it seems to be critical work if we want to translate the intelligence held by individual organizations into shared wisdom. It is the spaces in between organizations that remain uncultivated. That is where unrealized potential lies.

“Some people claim that they can compartmentalize their work life, their spiritual life, and their personal life. These same people claim that in a project, they can put government in a box, impacted citizens in a box, and corporate investors in a box. Compartmentalization is a very tempting theory, but I feel our seemingly watertight compartments have long been flooded. When you work as an employee with a company, or work along a corporate supply chain, you are connected to that company and its impacts on society. When you make decisions about integrity, inside a boardroom or at your family dinner table, your decisions are influenced by your values as a whole person.”

~ Excerpt from Corporate Integrity: A toolkit for managing beyond compliance (Kennedy-Glans and Schulz, 2005, John Wiley & Sons) ~