Ethilogical Consulting: Professional Ethics Services
Ethilogical provides our clients with cutting-edge methods to manage their ethical performance, organisational power dynamics and internal cultures for maximum performance and minimum liability.
Our services
Professional Associations
PhD: AI Ethics for Countering Violent Extremism
Buy the Book: Power and the Professional
Services
We provide our clients with ethical frameworks, best-practice decision making techniques, and the ability to apply these tools in a complex organisational environment.
Training
Upskill your team for best-practice ethical decision making, compliance, calaculated risk management, and professional resilience.
Power dynamics
'Power eats ethics for breakfast'. Identify and manage the power dynamics that undermine communication, collaboration and trust.
Culture
'Normal' dictates behaviour. Harness the power of ethics and power to ensure 'normal' in your team means 'excellence'.
Professional Associations
Professional Associations have a unique role to play in promoting professional ethics. Through extensive collaboration with these Associations, Ethilogical Consulting has developed a package of services tailored to assist Professional Associations in their work:
Professional ethics for members
An Association’s Code of Ethics/Conduct is more than just a set of rules; applied correctly it is both the sword and shield for a profession, promoting excellence for client confidence while also protecting members from exploitation.
‘Wicked problems’ Masterclass
‘Wicked problems’ are those with complex and obscure causes and no good path towards resolution. We offer this half-day workshop for experienced professionals to equip them with the means of navigating these challenges with maximum benefit and minimum risk.
Resilience for early professionals
Entering a new field exposes professionals to a whole new world of cultural norms, workplace politics and unanticipated challenges. This half-day workshop minimises stress-induced turnover by equipping early professionals to handle a variety of challenges.
Culture diagnosis for people managers
Cultural norms ultimately determine how a team performs. This half-day workshop unpacking the concept of workplace culture, its contributing factors, how it interacts with power and ethics, and ways culture can be diagnosed and steered over time.
Power dynamics for people managers
Power dynamics must be actively managed to prevent ‘shadow values’ from emerging. This workshop introduces our theory of power dynamics to highlight how and why power affects good decision-making and how to manage them.
PhD: AI Ethics and Counter-Extremism
Entitled "The Ethical Limitation of Ideas: Countering Online Extremist Movements using AI", this PhD is a full-time research project with Deakin University's Tackling Hate Lab: tacklinghate.org
The intended research question is "Under what circumstances is it ethically justifiable to monitor or limit the circulation of extremist ideas on social media using AI generated text, as part of efforts to counter online hate and extremism?".
You can follow progress on this project via the videos below.
PhD Weekly Blog - Week 1 - Introductions
PhD Weekly Blog - Week 6 - Kick off presentation
PhD Weekly Blog - Week 34 - Confirmation presentation
Buy the book: Power and the Professional
Why is being right not enough? If ethics alone do not determine whether a person controls the outcome, then what does? Where does this power come from, how does it move, and is it always a good thing to hold?
Published by McFarland Press, this book answers all of these questions with surprising conclusions.
Buy the book!
Available in multiple formats:
No matter who you are or what you aim to achieve, power determines whether you succeed or fail. But while power dynamics permeate every interaction in the workplace, the concept is very poorly understood or managed in practice.
Who we are
Our goal at Ethilogical is to improve the state of the world by helping businesses, organisations and individuals to make ethically-sound decisions.
We achieve this by providing our clients with an understanding of ethical frameworks, best-practice decision making techniques, and the ability to apply these tools in a complex organisational environment.
The Team
Gordon Young, Principal Consultant
Gordon Young is the principal of Ethilogical Consulting. As a professional ethicist he offers extensive understanding of how ethics, culture and power affect organizational performance and the effective management of all three.
With 16 years of experience, including three years review ethical training and cultural reform at Victoria Police, Gordon offers an exceptionally broad scope of experience and a capacity to adapt the Ethilogical toolkit to any organisational context. Gordon is currently a PhD Candidate with Deakin University’s Tackling Hate Lab, researching the governance of AI use for counter-extremist interventions online.
Gordon holds a Masters of Professional and Applied Ethics from Melbourne University, and a Bachelor in Social Science: Environment from RMIT University. He is also a Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership and a member of the St James Ethics Centre, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics, Australasian Business Ethics Network, and Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand.
Clients
We have extensive experience with a wide variety of professions and applications, including the following institutions.
Contact us
Address
Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, VIC
Phone
+61403591045ABN
24107836804