Make the choice.
How do shared principles guide everyday decisions when pressures and priorities compete?
GGA × The Ethics Institute
Making Values Real: Giving Voice to Values and The Yeast Effect
How everyday choices and conversations help ethical values take hold throughout an organisation.
Shared principles. Human effort. Everyday practice.Add start to calendar
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The conversation
What makes
a value real?
A principle takes shape in a decision. A conversation. The way we treat one another.
Values can be easy to name and harder to put into practice, especially when priorities compete. This webinar brings together Good Governance Academy and The Ethics Institute to explore how people can speak and act on their values in organisational life.
Arnold Smit’s “yeast effect” is a metaphor for the influence of consistent individual actions: what we do in everyday relationships can help shape the culture around us. Giving Voice to Values adds a practical question: how can we prepare to express and act on our principles when it matters?
Find the words.
What helps people speak and act on their values with clarity, confidence and care?
Build the culture.
How can small, consistent actions influence the way an organisation works together?
Proposed speakers
Experience that
brings values to life.
Responsible leadership and practical ethics, seen through the work of the people behind them.Participation to be confirmed.
Responsible leadership · Values in practice
Prof. Arnold Smit (LinkedIn, opens in a new tab)
Extraordinary Associate Professor, Stellenbosch Business School
Independent Non-Executive Director, The Ethics Institute
Arnold works at the intersection of values, responsible leadership and organisational life. Alongside his teaching at Stellenbosch Business School, he leads WisePraxis and serves on the board of The Ethics Institute.
With postgraduate training in applied ethics and theology, he connects scholarship with the practical challenges leaders face. His book, Making Values Real: Focus on the Yeast Effect, explores how people can give values meaning, navigate competing principles and weave them into relationships and organisational practice.
What they bringA perspective on how personal choices can influence a wider ethical culture.
Ethics management · Governance in practice
Fatima Rawat (TEI profile, opens in a new tab)
Senior Ethics Subject Matter Expert
The Ethics Institute · Public Sector Team
Fatima brings more than two decades of experience to her work on organisational ethics. An admitted attorney, she combines expertise in governance, legal affairs, people matters and ethics management, with a particular focus on public-sector organisations.
At The Ethics Institute, she pairs advisory work with teaching and facilitated conversations. Her involvement spans ethics-officer education and programmes for governance practitioners and committees. She has also contributed to handbooks for ethics ambassadors, local-government ethics committees, and legal and regulatory functions.
What they bringPractical insight into the structures, skills and conversations that support ethical organisations.
Who should join
For the people shaping
how organisations behave.
- Boards and executive leaders
- Ethics and compliance professionals
- Governance practitioners
- People and culture leaders
Join the conversation
One conversation.
Many time zones.
Thursday, 26 November 2026
10:00 SAST · Online via Zoom
End time and final speaker participation are to be confirmed.
10:00Cape Town · 26 November 2026 · SAST
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| City | Local start |
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| Los Angeles | 00:00 |
| New York | 03:00 |
| Rio de Janeiro | 05:00 |
| London | 08:00 |
| Cape Town | 10:00 |
| Riyadh | 11:00 |
| New Delhi | 13:30 |
| Beijing | 16:00 |
| Tokyo | 17:00 |
| Melbourne | 19:00 |
| Auckland | 21:00 |
From shared principles to everyday practice
Help your values
take shape.
Explore the choices, conversations and relationships that make an ethical culture possible.
Register on Zoom