What is LeaderEthics-Wisconsin?

LeaderEthics –Wisconsin is a non-partisan/non-profit organization dedicated to promoting integrity in the American Democracy through ethical leadership practices among elected officials. Ethical leaders are:

1. Truthful.
2. Transparent with public information.
3. Unifiers rather than dividers, and
4. Willing to represent the collective interests of their constituency.

The concept is designed to work at two levels. LeaderEthics-Wisconsin is a statewide organization, comprised of local chapters. At both levels, membership will make a difference!

In The News

Common Ground Is Higher Ground...an editorial in the La Crosse Tribune, 9-26-2021

"Think about how much more powerful this could have been if Congressional members could work together on behalf of the people of Wisconsin and the country in doing what they were elected to do."      

Link: Common Ground Is Higher Ground

Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin...an Open Dialogue

Available via live-stream on the Facebook pages of LeaderEthics-Wisconsin, Democracy Found and the Chippewa Herald.

Preview: Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin

 Hyper-partisanship Must End for the Good of the Country

 "How can we expect good results using a playbook with half the pages missing?"

 An editorial on WIZM Radio. Link: As I See It

Chipping Away at the Wall

 "Bipartisanship isn’t pretty. It is built on trust. It can be hard to sustain because trust is fragile."  La Crosse Tribune 8/1/21 link: Chipping Away at the Wall

 Is Ethical Leadership Possible?

 "If we, as citizens, value these characteristics and strive to conduct ourselves accordingly we can expect the same from our elected leaders. Leaders who attempt to demonstrate these  characteristics deserve our vote."

 link: Is Ethical Leadership Possible?

 Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin

Journalist, Tom Milbourn, led a conversation with panelists Sara Eskrich, Austin Ramirez and Rep. Joel Kitchens regarding the Final-Five Voting legislation being considered in Wisconsin.

 link: WXOW Final-Five Voting

Representative or Partisan

"As voters, are we able to support the concept of a representative government as the American founders intended. Are we satisfied (or dissatisfied) with the outcomes of government? And do we vote accordingly for our elected representatives? Or are we caught up in the partisan conflict and surrender our vote to political party leaders? Do we expected elected officials to represent us...or handpicked political party leaders? The question remains, as citizens and voters, what do we expect?"

Editorial published in the La crosse Tribune, June 6, 2021 Link: Representative or Partisan

Debating the Facets of Hell

 "If leaders contribute to the structural conflict, or fail to take steps to address the  conflict, the  conflict will grow, often uncontrollably. In other words, all hell breaks  loose. And in the resulting  debate, we can find ourselves arguing over the symptoms of the conflict, essentially 'debating  the facets of hell'. There may be little  dialog about how we got here and, more importantly, how  we move out of this  dynamic."  Lee Rasch

Editorial published in the La Crosse Tribune, May 2, 2021 La Crosse Tribune, May 2, 2021

 Our Electoral Process...a Vicious Cycle

 "While in a vicious cycle, we are not protecting the status quo...rather we are protecting the 'worsening of the situation'"

Published in the La Crosse Tribune, April 11, 2021 link to article

Rep. Steve Doyle and former Rep. Lee Nerison selected as the 2021 LeaderEthics Award recipients

WKBT -  LeaderEthics Award Recipients

The La Crosse Tribune Endorses Final Five Voting in Wisconsin

LeaderEthics-Wisconsin is pleased to see support for Democracy Found and the bipartisan-sponsored bill...Final Five Voting. As stated in the editorial by Lee Rasch, "We believe this is a serious effort designed to curtail the hyper-partisanship we are seeing in politics today."

March 21, 2010  Final Five Voting Deserves Support

 Caught in the Vortex of Misinformation

 Many believe we are in an infodemic, as misinformation on social  media becomes a greater influence. Published in the March 7, 2021  issue of the La Crosse Tribune. 

Caught in the Vortex of Misinformation

Change Starts With Our Expectations

In the January 31, 2021 issue of the La Crosse Tribune, Lee Rasch discusses the importance of establishing expectations for ethical leadership.

Change Starts With Our Expectations

Becoming a Candidate on an Ethical Leadership Platform

"We need to expect ethical leadership from elected officials. It's as applicable in politics as it is in business, education, healthcare or any other area."...Lee Rasch        WKBT News 8000 video, ethical leadership 

Local candidates asked to show ethical leadership

LeaderEthics-Wisconsin announces the release of the video, "Becoming a Candidate on an Ethical Leadership Platform"

WXOW ethical leadership video

It's Never Too Late to Recognize the Right Thing

In this La Crosse Tribune editorial, the focus is on recognizing ethical leadership in practice as a way of encouraging elected officials to consider "doing the right thing".

Inspired Minds Podcast: LeaderEthics-Wisconsin

Lee Rasch is engaged in a conversation with Sam Scinta, President and Founder of IM Education, and Rick Kyte, Director of the DB Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University.

Inspired Minds Podcast

 Disinformation on Social Media

  Lee Rasch is interviewed by Tyler Job of WKBT regarding concerns about disinformation in social media in advance of the November 3rd election.

  Link:Disinformation on Social Media

Bipartisanship is more than just splitting the difference

Lee Rasch provided a guest editorial in the La Crosse Tribune.

Link: La Crosse Tribune Editorial

Bipartisan Ethics

The release of the 2020 Citizen's Guide 2.0 is announced. 

WXOW October 6, 2020, link: bipartisan message

Resources to Fight Misinformation

WKBT News8000 October 6, 2020, link: helpful resources

 The Cap Times Max Witynski & Jessica Christoffer - Wisconsin Watch

 "One Answer is to avoid liking or sharing suspicious or inflammatory content, according to  Lee Rasch, the  executive director of LeaderEthics-Wisconsin, a La Crosse, Wisconsin-  based nonprofit that  promotes integrity in American democracy."

 Wisconsin Watch - Cap Times 

Ethical Leadership Podcast - LeaderEthics-Wisconsin

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/25850600

A Big Breath of Fresh Air

A guest editorial was written by Lee Rasch supporting the announcement of the SafeVote Wisconsin Coalition...a bipartisan effort to promote safe opportunities to vote in Wisconsin elections during the pandemic. - La Crosse Tribune 7/26/20

A Big Breath of Fresh Air

Poll looks at ethical performance among elected officials at local, state and national level - WKBT 7/17/20 

https://t.co/pdL51FaphW

 Expect Elected Officials to Collaborate - La Crosse Tribune 5/24/20

Expect Elected Officials to Collaborate

COVID-19 and the Principles of Ethical Leadership

As elected officials, ethical leaders are truthful, transparent, unifying and representing all constituents...

La Crosse Tribune March 22, 2020               Principles of Ethical Leadership   

WXOW Report: Local Leaders Speak Out About Preventing Election Interference

https://wxow.com/2020/03/11/local-leaders-speak-out-about-preventing-election-interference/

 An Ethical Approach to Leadership

  "Leadership" and "Ethics." Putting those words together in the same sentence may seem like an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms given today's political climate.

 http://www.leaderethicswi.org/Presentations/Articles/

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