Helping Clients Reduce Risk
By Ensuring
Ethical Conduct

Bosporus University Campus - first home for TEDMER
TEDMER focused on training and certifying Ethics Officers for the Turkish operations of multinational organizations and well as Turkish corporations and elements of the Turkish government. The Ethics Officer Certification Program consisted of 80 hours of classroom work and included follow-up tutorials and support for graduates."

Istanbul - Bosporus University Ethics Club
Bosporus University is one of several universities in Turkey that fosters an understanding of societal, professional and organizational ethics through the formation of Ethics Clubs. Students discuss and debate ethics issues, and even participated in a Turkish version of the Ethics Bowl – modeled on the US competition hosted by APPE.

Dubai - Ethics Officer Certification Program Graduates
As was the case in South Africa and Istanbul, the Ethics Center in Dubai, UAE, found the Ethics Officer Certification Program to be a valuable tool for preparing high level personnel in various organizations for a leadership role in establishing and managing Ethics Offices based on a model very close to that described in US Federal Sentencing Guidelines as “…an effective program to prevent and detect violations….”

Istanbul - Inaguaral Ethics Officer Certification Program
The ten-day program was very much an exercise in “hands-on learning”. The majority of activities were case-based and addressed by 4-6 person working groups – to simulate the corporate/government environment represented by the students.

Pretoria, SA - Ethics Office Certification Program
The very first Ethics Officer Certification Program was conducted in South Africa. The pilot class consisted of five ”students” (shown holding their diplomas) plus three members of the Ethics Institute of South Africa’s leadership team and one Consultant from the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C. Frank Navran, designer and facilitator of the program, is seated front row, center.

Istanbul - TEDMER Leadership Team plus 1
Ali Midillili, TEDMER Board of Directors (left) and Necati Guler, TEDMER CEO (right) enjoying a break outside the Bosporus University Alumni Center with Barbara Navran, Vice President of Navran Associates. The Bosporus University Alumni Association graciously allowed TEDMER use of its facility’s conference room for Ethics Officer Certification Training on numerous occasions.

Meeting of the Minds
Dinner in Istanbul with Willem Landman (CEO, Ethics Institute of South Africa seated far left), Necati Guler (CEO Turkish Ethics and Values Institute, seated second from right) - with Frank Navran (President, Navran Associates seated far right). Celebratory dinner following a joint presentation to the 2nd Annual Conference on Sustainable Development in Istanbul, February, 2004.

Saul Caro at FSBE
Navran Associates' Senior Associate, Saul Caro, delivering a presentation on the Ethics of Marketing to the Flagler Small Business Incubator program (Flagler County, Florida). Never too early to educate budding entrepreneurs regarding the ethical challenges of business and leadership.