Standards & Ethics
Society for Process Consulting Ethics Statement
As a community, we care about ETHICS, EXCELLENCE, and INTEGRITY as we help individuals, teams, and organizations develop and transform.
As Members, We Attest To:
- Operate with the highest level of professionalism in our words, actions, and publications.
- Avoid conflicts of interest. When in doubt, alert pertinent parties, whether Clients, vendors, or partners, about possible conflicts of interest.
- Put Clients first, creating contracts and agreements that reflect Client-centered, Client-defined scopes of work.
- Co-create solutions with Clients using a process vs. product approach that does not artificially perpetuate more work for the consultant.
- Engage in lifelong learning to constantly improve the consulting we provide to Clients.
- Commit to helping the next generation of Process Consultants thrive through tools, advice, and resources.
- Maintain business practices that meet local, state, and federal policies, regulations, and laws.
- Report breaches of ethics to the Society of Process Consulting’s Standards and Ethics Committee.
© 2024 Design Group International | Society Ethics Statement v1.1 18/Sept/2018
Meet Our Standards & Ethics Commission
Lee H. Butler, Jr., Ph.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean & William Tabbernee Professor of the History of Religions and Africana Pastoral Theology, Phillips Theological Seminary, & Standards & Ethics Committee Member
Lee joined the Phillips Theological Seminary as Vice President of Academic Affairs, Academic Dean and William Tabbernee Professor in 2020. He previously served at Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS), where he was instated as assistant professor of theology and psychology in 1996. In 2006, he was promoted to the rank of full professor and in 2017, he was installed in his endowed academic chair.
A former director of the CTS Master of Divinity program, a former Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Black Faith and Life at CTS, his teaching and research interests are in the areas of pastoral psychology, care and counseling, focusing on such topics as Africana religion, pastoral theology, spirituality, and sexuality.
He is a Past-President of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society for Pastoral Theology, and the Association of Black Psychologists.
Sandra Quick
As a Master Teacher and Secondary Principal, Sandra weathered the storm of racial desegregation in Ohio’s largest urban school district. During the most dramatic changes in societal, political and economic cultural upheavals and transitions, including the Vietnam War protests, the Civil Rights Movement and family systems breakdowns, Sandra stayed culturally congruent with these never-ending cultural conversions in attitudes, behaviors and beliefs. Times… they are a changin’.
Sandra has years of experience consulting with faith based organizations, non-profits and small businesses which need to make sure their current narrative is congruent and timely, rather than traditional and stagnant. She walks alongside her clients to address internal, organizational issues of inequity and privilege with an eye for constructive process and change. Working from both ends of the cultural competence spectrum, Sandra has built capacity from a preventive approach of conflict resolution, as part of the Minorities Professionals in ADR at Capital Law School (OH).
From the other edge, Sandra is certified as a Christian Conciliator to mediate and arbitrate unresolved and unreconciled substantive and relational issues, both secular and faith based. Her current work has also been deeply influenced by her 13 years as the Curriculum and Instruction Director at Lott Carey Baptist Mission School in Liberia, West Africa.
Carlos Romero
Former Executive Director, Mennonite Education Agency & Standards & Ethics Committee Member
Previously a school administrator, as well as a minister for the Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries, Carlos led the organization from its formation in 2001 until July of 2019, and expertly guided its vision of strengthening the Mennonite Church through education. During his time with the Agency he provided guidance for school administrators and staff serving early childhood through college.
An important part of his work is that of intercultural competency and dismantling racism. He was co-founder of Developing Harmony through Diversity, an initiative of the Mennonite Church on dismantling racism in the 1990s. Today, Romero is a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Diversity Inventory and has trained boards on the importance of increasing their level of intercultural competence as a necessary step in facing the challenges of today's world.
Romero is a public speaker, often sharing and preaching across the Mennonite Church USA. He consults with boards, is certified in board governance and received a leadership certification for nonprofit chief executives from Board Source. He currently serves as the Vice President of Operations and Administrator at Hamilton Grove Retirement Community in New Carlisle, IN. He lives in Goshen, IN with his wife Celina and is an active member of Waterford Mennonite Church.
Lon L. Swartzentruber
Interim CEO, The Society for Process Consulting; Managing Partner and CEO of Design Group International
Lon is Managing Partner and CEO of Design Group International. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience in human and organizational development, helping leaders and their organizations transform for a vibrant future. As a Process Consultant he has supported the leadership of over 150 Clients and their organizations.
Through this work, Lon has walked alongside organizational leaders to help them articulate their vision and craft strategic plans to achieve them. By taking a posture of listening, his service has helped leaders build consensus, obtain funding, and engage true and lasting change.
Lon earned his B.A. in Business from Goshen College and MBA from George Mason University. He holds multiple credentials including Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Executive Process Consultant by the Society for Process Consulting, and an Accredited Practitioner with iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram.
Noele Stith
Senior Partner and Process Consultant for Design Group International.
Noele utilizes her process consultancy to help people and organizations develop healthy culture and mindsets so they can confidently execute what will position their careers and organizations to thrive. As a Black female entrepreneur, she uses her personal experiences and decades of working alongside executive leaders and community to elevate collective thriving through intentional listening, inclusive governance, along with processing through both human and business cultures and operations to empower people, organizations, communities and ecosystems.
Mark L. Vincent
Founder, Chairman, & Course Facilitator, The Society for Process Consulting & Standards and Ethics Committee Member
Mark created Process Consultation Training 101 (PCT 101) to help other consultants live into the vocation of process consulting and thrive as individual consultants.
He seeks to build the talent pipeline in this iterative, inquiry-based form of consulting to help organizations transform for a brighter future. He helps individuals, teams, organizations and businesses apply the tenets of process consulting to help them grow and expedite results.
Mark is also the Founder of Design Group International, a process consulting community of practice started in 2011 that has grown exponentially to create positive impact across the globe. Read more about Mark here.