Integrity Bridges Inc. hosts tough conversations within organizations, and between groups and organizations – dialogues that lead to trust, decision-making and action. We host new conversations on complex questions. Our goal is not ‘more talk’; our goal is to help you align your intention, commitment and action on issues that really matter. When effectively hosted, dialogue can help to clarify everyone’s motivators (even self-interest). Dialogue can flush out disconnects in understanding, a critical first step to bridging integrity gaps.

Look at your own community or organization: Are there any expectation gaps between your company’s intentions and commitments? Are there any performance gaps between commitments and actions; does your employer walk its talk? When there is alignment in a company’s intentions, commitments and actions on equality, we call that sweet place “integrity”.

Sample dialogues we have hosted:

  • Corporate Integrity: “Our company is committed to investing in host communities where we operate. But we are often frustrated. Communities never seem satisfied. How can we participate in local communities more effectively?”
  • Political Integrity: “Our local government says it is accountable. Yet political leaders are reluctant to be as transparent in their finances and decision-making. How do we close these gaps between citizens’ expectations of transparency and accountability, and politicians’ commitments and actions?”
  • Gender Integrity: “My employer says it is an ‘equal opportunity employer’. What does this really mean?”
  • Community Integrity: “An international environmental advocacy group says it cares about citizens in our community – including Aboriginals. This group wants to set up a wildlife preserve in our community. How does this externally-driven priority mesh with Aboriginal rights and expectations?”
  • Download PDF of sample dialogue: A Meeting Between Charity and Business – a dialogue with Pari Center for New Learning, September 2010

To experience a live, ongoing dialogue about gender integrity, visit Integrity Bridges’ Facebook dialogue here:


Gender Integrity dialogue example:

It’s a rare company today that doesn’t want to be seen as an ‘equal opportunity employer’. But what does this mean? Is the goal of this workplace policy equality of opportunity, or identical treatment for males and females? Have you achieved the aim of gender equality if one woman is appointed to your Board of Directors, or do you need a minimum thirty percent or even fifty percent female representation on your Board?

To decipher what your company really means, we recommend you discuss three simple questions:

1. What motivates your company to value diversity, inclusiveness and gender equality?

2. What commitments does your company make to these values?

3. Are your corporate actions consistent with that intention and commitment?

It’s fairly easy to unearth answers to the second and third questions, to clarify what a company says and does. It’s a lot tougher to understand why a company says it’s an equal opportunity employer. People and organizations, even countries, support gender equality for different reasons.

Some people see females in the workplace as essential to economic growth; they want to attract the best and the brightest to their company. Some people are motivated by universality of human rights. Some people want to comply with laws and rules, or don’t want to face penalties or lawsuits for failing to comply. Others worry about their personal or corporate reputations, asking: what will others think?

Look at your own workplace: Are there any expectation gaps between your company’s intentions and commitments? People commit to gender equality for many reasons. It’s predictable that people will have different expectations when they hear a company say, “we endorse gender equality”.  And, are there any performance gaps between commitments and actions; does your employer walk its talk? When there is alignment in a company’s intentions, commitments and actions on equality, we call that sweet spot “gender integrity”.