LEO's Resources and Experience

LEO bases our viewpoint and approaches through over thirty years of education, research, and employment experience. Our depth in resources ensures that clients can find through us, or our team of experts in conflict management, appropriate solutions, preventive or corrective.

Education. LEO's team has earned PhDs, JDs, and MBAs, among other professional degrees, from the finest schools in the world. Our President earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago combining the study of history and ethics. He is an expert in religious conflicts, particularly those based in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and has employment experience in education, EEO and civil rights enforcement, publication, and in religious leadership. Our esteemed mediators and arbitrators, for example, hold degrees from Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, and other prestigious universities.

National Standards of Practice. Research in the fields of leadership, ethics, and conflict management, will show a wide-ranging diversity in approaches. Clients sometimes are offered options and proposed solutions that are untested and unaccountable to major professional disciplines working in these areas. Accordingly, LEO draws upon a number of professional organizations to ensure that clients' other professionals will find understandable and congenial content to what we suggest. LEO's management has served on ethics panels in the following associations, or draws upon their standards of practice documents.

The American Bar Association (www.abanet.org) Section on Dispute Resolution Section on Litigation Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section on Health Care Section on Construction The Association for Conflict Resolution (www.acrnet.org) The International Association for Conflict Management (www.iacm-conflict.org) The American Arbitration Association (www.adr.org) The International Ombuds Association (www.ombudsassociation.org) The National Association for Community Mediation (www.nafcm.org) The Association for Family and Conciliation Courts (www.afccnet.org) The Society for Risk Analysis (www.sra.org) The American Psychological Association (www.apa.org) Division 6: Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Division 8: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Division 9: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Division 14: Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Division 15: Educational Psychology Division 19: Society for Military Psychology Division 25: Behavior Analysis Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence Division 53: Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Division 56: Trauma Psychology The United States Distance Learning Association (www.usdla.org)

Costs for LEO Services and Products. LEO offers free initial consultations from prospective clients. There are times when one free phone call is sufficient to move clients in a constructive and satisfactory solution. This is a welcome resolution for us, and is an opportunity for us to practice the principles of leadership and ethics we teach. Prospective clients are encouraged to think through their reason for calling to ensure maximal benefits from this service.

Time is money and LEO promises our full, individualized attention to client needs. We seek to price our time and resources so they are reasonable and economical, yet appropriate for the quality services and products we provide. The following fee schedule is a general guideline. $100.00 US per hour, email or telephone $100.00 US per hour for program design and development $1500.00 US per day, plus expenses, for onsite work $3000.00 US per day, plus expenses, for associational programs onsite Variable rates per hour and per day for U.S. content experts in mediation and arbitration Variable rates per hour for distance education modules and programs The posted rates may change, depending on client projects and resources. LEO will negotiate terms for multi-phase, complex projects.

LEO's Goal for You

There are more and more pressures on leaders and organizations to remain faithful to their mission statements, to remain strong or even survive. These pressures increase the temptation to take shortcuts in how we use our authority and how we treat the members of our organizations. With a growing sense that no one will look out for our interests, many leaders opt for the path of least resistance and create a wake of damage along the way. Life is short. Make life meaningful. There are many, many leaders and organizations who live by the Golden Rule: love your neighbor as yourself, or, treat others as you want to be treated.

LEO's mission and methods center in love for life, love for others, and love for our place in the world. LEO is Latin for lion. Be courageous and join us. Fill your career with meaning! John D. Willis, PhD, President Leadership Ethics Online, LLC