Fiduciary In All Things - a verified business designation
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FIAT is a movement and a designation for organisations that put people, truth, democracy, and the planet ahead of self-interest — and prove it. The designation is a verified mark earned over 15 months of building people-first, flourishing organisations.
The problem
Five pain points are quietly draining your organisation.
You've automated the busywork and tightened the org chart, and good people are still quietly disengaging anyway. Turnover keeps walking institutional knowledge out the door, and trust between your people and their leadership erodes a little more every quarter.
AI-driven fear
Automation is unsettling the people who remain, even as leaders chase productivity through it.
Disengagement
Skills can be hired. The passion that drives real performance is hard to replicate and easy to lose.
Turnover
Institutional knowledge leaves with every departure, at a cost that rarely shows up on a spreadsheet.
Loneliness
From new hires to top executives, people go unrecognised — belonging gives way to isolation.
Erosion of trust
Without a shared, mission-driven purpose, teams pull in different directions instead of toward one goal.
The solution
FIAT gives your organisation a proven path to flourishing.
Imagine a world where companies model the civilisation they desire by investing in the wellbeing of their workforce.
Fiduciary In All Things™ (FIAT) is a movement and a designation for organisations dedicated to building a more humane civilisation — one that puts people, truth, democracy, and the planet ahead of self-interest. The FIAT Designation is awarded to organisations dedicated both to the movement and to building their own people-first, flourishing organisation.
We create uplifted, spirited, energised, and thriving workplaces. We stand for and model a world that is made trustworthy and humane through a commitment to a universal fiduciary standard, a world that is fiduciary and thrives because of it.
Awarded only after the full FIAT journey is complete
Why organisations pursue it
Three ways FIAT changes how your business runs.
A reputation you don't have to chase
The FIAT mark is visible proof of fiduciary leadership, not a marketing claim — signalling to clients, employees, and your community that your values are backed by lived practice.
A culture that retains and attracts talent
Aligned, mission-driven teams show up in the numbers — stronger retention, lower turnover cost, and greater appeal to recruits and clients who choose purpose-driven organisations.
Measurably better performance
Purpose-aligned organisations perform better, full stop — inspired employees substantially outperform merely satisfied ones. FIAT gives you a framework for closing that gap.
The evidence
The ROI of FIAT, in four numbers.
125%
Inspired employees outperform merely satisfied ones by this much.
Bain & Co.
8x
Higher revenue per employee at Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, versus the broader public market.
Great Place to Work
1.5–2x
Annual salary it typically costs to replace an employee, once recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity are counted.
Industry estimate
$4,200
Estimated annual cost per employee from workplace loneliness in lost workdays alone.
Gallup
Social proof
Leaders who’ve been through the Three Domains Workshop.
A brilliant course for building a harmonious, productive workplace — and for becoming a better, happier, more effective person.
Charles Fowler — Chair, Human Values Foundation; Global Coordinator, World Values Day
One of the best training days I've had as a business owner and employer, with real benefit to my team.
Michael Fairweather, RLP® — Founder, Real Life Financial Planning Ltd.
Simple enough to bring home, into our friendships, and straight into how we do business — practiced widely, it points toward freedom for everyone, the planet included.
Jennifer McKinley, RLP®, CeFT® — Founder, McKinley Life Planning & Consulting
How it works
Three steps from first conversation to Designation.
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Start the conversation
A short intake form and a consultation where we learn about your organisation, your leadership structure, and where you're starting from — then send a tailored proposal.
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Complete the journey
Every employee begins with the Three Domains Workshop, moves through Humans Flourishing life planning, and joins a year-long Fellowship woven into everyday work.
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Earn your Designation
Your organisation is recognised at a Celebration Ceremony and awarded the verified FIAT Designation Logo, with ongoing membership keeping it active year after year.
Ready to become a FIAT Designated Business?
Start with a conversation. We'll talk through your organisation's pain points and help you choose the track order that fits your team.
Frequently Asked Questions
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FIAT is built for organisations of every kind.
By structure or stage
Founder-led businesses
B Corps
Organisations pursuing B Corp certification
Mission-driven and purpose-driven companies
Social enterprises
By sector
Professional services firms
Financial planning firms
Financial services industry more broadly
Management consulting firms
Architecture, building, and design firms
Healthcare
Hospitality
Non-profits
Local governments
Media
By what you're facing
Any organisation experiencing culture, retention, or engagement challenges
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It strengthens what matters most: your people. It deepens the lived, experiential quality of your mission by developing a workforce that truly embodies your purpose, enhancing your impact across people, planet, and profit.
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Bring everyone on board. Start with FIAT to build the spirit, alignment, and energy among your employees that makes the transition to B Corp not only smooth, but more authentic and sustainable.
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You don't need a certification to live your mission fully. FIAT helps your team embody purpose in daily work, unlocking greater engagement, coherence, and performance across the organization.
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Every entrepreneur has wished, at some point, they could clone themselves. If you had to choose only one thing to clone—your skills, your passion, your inspiration, or your energy—which would you pick? We can't clone your skills. But FIAT is the next best thing to cloning what actually drives your business forward: a workforce that carries your energy, inspiration, and passion as if it were their own.
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The simplest ROI calculation comes from Bain & Co’s 2017 study that revealed inspired workers produce 125% as much as merely satisfied workers. Given that a typical worker generates roughly 2 to 5 times their total compensation in gross revenue for a company, more than doubling their output by inspiring them would be worth far more than a mere fraction of their wages that a few thousand pounds or dollars represents. It sounds unbelievable, but if an inspired and flourishing employee previously generating 3x their wages were to suddenly generate 6.75x, ROI on an investment of 10% of wages would return 37x the investment in the first year.
Throw in the frequency of disengagement in the workforce, and inspiration can be seen as the easiest, most direct and efficient way to increase profitability in a business. Moving employees from actively disengaged to simply average and compliant typically delivers an additional 18–20% increase in productivity, reduces absenteeism by 37–41% and recovers roughly $3,400 to $10,000 per worker annually that disengagement was otherwise costing (Gallup).
Fear and low psychological safety stall innovation, increase turnover, absenteeism and low engagement, all consequences of a merely AI driven productivity approach.
Replacing an employee typically costs between 1.5 and 2 times their annual salary once recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity during the transition are all counted.
Research from Great Place to Work found that companies on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list generate an average of $883,928 in revenue per employee, compared with $104,030 across the broader U.S. public market — an eightfold difference tied to their high-trust cultures drastically reducing operational inefficiencies. Organizations that prioritize employee wellbeing and purpose consistently unlock greater productivity, foster continuous innovation, and retain top talent.
Workplace loneliness costs employers an estimated $4,200 per employee annually in lost workdays alone — a hidden drag that scales directly with headcount.
Productive teams deliver faster turnaround times, handle higher customer volumes, and free up resources to focus on business growth rather than just operational maintenance. Across the organization, they increase output without a proportional increase in fixed costs.
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Any organisation can sign on and display the FIAT Support Logo from the very start of a consultative conversation with us — it shows you support the FIAT movement. The FIAT Designation Logo is different: it’s earned only after your organisation completes its full FIAT journey and achieves organisation-wide adoption, verified by The Moules.