Ethical Business Toolkit

Most conversations about ethical business stop at identity. This work does not. This toolkit is an invitation to move from values as language to values as practice, from intention to structure, and awareness to repair.

These tools were developed as part of my PhD research in decolonial economics and allyship. Informed by the work of Klee Benally (Accomplices Not Allies) and translated into practical tools for entrepreneurs, educators, and consultants who want to build businesses that are less extractive, more accountable, and grounded in sustainable relationship.

This is not a certification, this is a practice.

A focused, clear workspace to match the business strategy

The Toolkit

Start where you are. Move slowly. Choose one repair at a time. Integrity is built through follow-through, not intensity.

  • For when you’re tired, overwhelmed, and unsure where to begin, start with this 10-minute reflection tool where you will be guided to:

    • Identify immediate misalignments

    • Choose one repair to complete within two weeks

    • Interrupt spiraling with grounded action

  • This offers deeper reflection and repair frameworks for quarterly reviews, pre-launch check-ins, and moments when something feels off.

    • Access practices across consent, power, extraction, accessibility, and accountability

    • Identify patters (co-optation, gatekeeping, saviorism, etc.)

    • Translate insight into operational repair

  • This is an operational implementation tool for translating values into systems across your business.

    • Messaging and claims alignment

    • Consent and client story ethics

    • Accessibility and cognitive load

    • Financial accessibility and pricing

    • Reciprocity and accountability practices

The Quick Audit
Ethical Business Inventory
Alignment Checklist

  • "Consider the following to be a guide for identifying points of intervention against the ally industrial complex."

    Klee Benally

  • "Accomplices listen with respect for the range of cultural practices and dynamics that exists within various Indigenous communities."

    Klee Benally

  • "Accomplices are realized through mutual consent and build trust. They don't just have our backs, they are at our side, or in their own spaces confronting and unsettling colonialism."

    Klee Benally

  • "As accomplices we are compelled to become accountable and responsible to each other, that is the nature of trust."

    Klee Benally

  • "Don't wait around for anyone to proclaim you to be an accomplice, you certainly cannot proclaim it yourself. You just are or you are not."

    Klee Benally

  • "The lines of oppression are already drawn. Direct action is really the best and may be the only way to learn what it is to be an accomplice."

    Klee Benally

  • "Understand that is is not our responsibility to hold your hand through a process to be an accomplice."

    Klee Benally

  • "The risks of an ally who provides support or solidarity (usually on a temporary basis) in a fight are much different than that of an accomplice."

    Klee Benally

  • "When we fight back or forward, together, becoming complicit in a struggle towards liberation, we are accomplices."

    Klee Benally

How to engage with this work

Choose one section

Complete it with honesty

Identify one repair

Complete it within two weeks

Repeat

Ethics in Practice

This is a non-Indigenous practitioner tool informed by existing work and translated into business practice. You are responsible for how you use it.

To protect the integrity of this work:

  • This is not a certification or credential

  • This is not Indigenous-approved or representative of Indigenous frameworks

  • This is not a moral scorecard

  • This is not a substitute for relationship, accountability, or material change

We believe ethics must be operational, not aesthetic. This is ongoing work, we are still learning and unlearning.

Our commitments include:

  • Consent-based marketing and storytelling

  • Clear scope and boundaried support

  • Accessibility as a default, not an accommodation

  • Financial transparency and access pathways

  • Ongoing reciprocity and redistribution practices

  • Feedback as part of repair, not debate.

Feedback & Repair

If you notice harm, gaps, or have feedback, please let us know. We treat feedback as part of the repair process, not debate.

If you are from a community directly impacted by extraction or non-profit industrial complex dynamics and are open to offering feedback, we are committed to compensating your time.

Optional Support

This work is complex and you don’t have to do it alone. We offer support to organizations, founders, and leaders navigating this work with intention and integrity.

  • Guided support to help you build an aligned, sustainable partnership.

  • Individualized business consultation.

  • Fractional business and financial management services designed to provide comprehensive support, guidance, and oversight tailored specifically for you and your team.

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