Values Integrity Index For Organisations Doing Work That Matters
Operationalise Your Core Values
Ethixly audits where your structure, leadership behaviours and systems drift from your values – and shows you exactly how to close the gap.
What Does Exthixly Do?
What You Measure Becomes What Matters
Organisations rarely lack values, they lack alignment. What drives behaviour isn’t your values – it’s the policies, processes, structures, platforms and data points that support them.
Each value has its own levers and when these aren’t aligned with your stated principles, your organisation will operate according to the incentives and systems that exist – not the values you claim.
Ethixly identifies these gaps and shows you exactly how to embed each value in the structures that actually shape behaviour. We audit your organisation one value at a time – beginning with Accountability.
We don’t assess culture; we test whether your KPIs, leadership behaviours, structures, and consequences reflect that value in practice. Because if a value isn’t operationalised, it isn’t driving impact.
→ See how the Accountability Diagnostic works for Start-ups | Scale-ups
Who This Is For
Ethixly is built for organisations that want their values to actually shape behaviour:
- Founders moving from operator to leader
- Leadership teams preparing to scale impact
- Values-led organisations experiencing execution drift
- Boards seeking structural accountability
If your systems haven’t caught up with your ambitions, this is for you.
Why It Matters
Core values only influence behaviour if they’re embedded in the systems of the organisation. Misalignment leads to:
- Conflicting priorities across teams
- Leadership bottlenecks and micromanagement
- Ineffective incentives & inconsistent consequences
- Significant drift between intent and impact
Ethixly identifies where alignment breaks down and provides a roadmap to fix it, one value at a time.
The Ethixly Model
A Values-Led Diagnostic Framework
Each values diagnostic examines the structures that bring a value to life: this means looking at the policies, processes, platforms, data points, leadership behaviours and consequence architecture most relevant to the value under review.
We deliver evidence of where your organisation’s systems reinforce – or undermine – each value. Then we show you exactly how to embed the value in the structures that actually shape behaviour.
Example levers we assess per value:
- Accountability: KPIs, decision-making authority, consequence architecture, leadership behaviour
- Transparency: Reporting systems, communication flows, data visibility, decision logs
- Trust & Autonomy: Delegation structures, role clarity, feedback mechanisms, policy enforcement
- Growth & Learning: Training pathways, knowledge sharing platforms, review processes, incentive alignment
This approach means that every diagnostic is tailored – the structures we examine differ depending on the value, but the outcome is always the same: measurable alignment between what your organisation says it stands for and what it actually does in practice.
→ Explore the Accountability Diagnostic for Start-ups | Scale-ups
The Accountability Diagnostic
Accountability is the foundation of every value. Without it, no system holds.
This diagnostic examines the key levers that make accountability real:
- KPIs and metrics alignment
- Leadership behaviours and decision-making
- Consequence and incentive structures
- Role clarity and ownership
We map gaps, highlight risks and provide a clear, actionable plan to embed accountability across your organisation.
→ Book Your Accountability Diagnostic now for Start-ups | Scale-ups
🫱🏾🫲🏽 Interested in Piloting Ethixly?
You don’t need another workshop or culture deck, you need structural alignment between what you say your core values are and what your organisation actually does in practice. Ethixly identifies the gaps – and helps you close them.
Startups: For organisations of up to 50 people.
Scale ups: For organisations between 50-200 people.