The Framework for the Decisions That Define Your Organization
FEDM gives leaders a structured, repeatable process for high-stakes ethical decision-making — and a credential to prove it.
Something has gone wrong with how decisions get made.
AI restructuring is doing more than changing workflows. It is eliminating the specialist roles — ethicists, compliance officers, deliberative reviewers — that organizations depended on to catch ethical problems before they became crises. That infrastructure is being removed faster than anything is being built to replace it.
The result is a gap. Decisions that once moved through layers of deliberation now move directly from executive judgment to consequence. The time between "we should" and "we did" has collapsed — and the organizational capacity to apply structured ethical reasoning in that window has largely disappeared.
This is not an abstract concern. It is a structural risk. And it is not one that good intentions, values statements, or AI ethics policies resolve. What it requires is a structured decision methodology — and people trained to use it.
FEDM is that structure.
The Framework for Ethical Decision-Making is an 8-step structured methodology grounded in peer-reviewed moral intensity theory. Built for real organizational decisions under real time pressure — not for classrooms or compliance checklists. FEDM produces practitioners, and practitioners earn a credential they can stand behind.
Structured
8-step process with defined inputs, deliberation steps, and convergence criteria.
Practitioner-Certified
Credential earned through training and a written practical assessment. Annual recertification required.
Academically Grounded
Built on peer-reviewed moral intensity research. Developed through doctoral work at UT Good Systems.
Grounded in research. Tested in practice.
Panel contributor on AI governance and organizational ethics, alongside chief ethics officers from leading global institutions.
Doctoral research on organizational ethics and moral intensity at the University of Texas Good Systems initiative.
Forthcoming book — the extended argument for why structured ethical decision-making matters now more than ever.
Choose the path that fits your organization.
Every pathway leads to the same credential. The format depends on how your organization works.
Corporate Cohort
Full-day onsite certification for 10–30 participants. Includes written assessment, credential, workbook, and 90-day check-in.
Learn more →Individual Certification
Quarterly in-person cohorts in Austin. Max 20 participants. For leaders, consultants, and HR professionals.
Join the waitlist →Train the Trainer
A 2.5–3 day immersive program licensing you to deliver FEDM certification training in your organization or practice.
Join the waitlist →coming soon
The Empty Chair: Rebuilding Human Judgment in the Age of AI
The ideas behind the framework, in long form. A practitioner's argument for why AI restructuring is producing a specific, underexamined organizational problem — and what to do about it.
Learn more about the book →