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Scenario

How to navigate ethical conflicts when teams discover problematic funding sources

Our research team has been working on this project for eighteen months and we just found out the funding comes from a defense contractor, and half of us want to quit immediately while the other half thinks we can still do good science within these constraints, and nobody knows how to have this conversation without destroying relationships.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group of professionals must reconcile their individual moral boundaries with their collective investment in work that may compromise their values.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Professional identity and its limits?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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