our vision
Our vision is to help renew Australia’s corporate culture by empowering leaders to build high-trust, high-performance organisations grounded in merit and integrity.

Many organisations can feel it: something is no longer working. The trends in business trust and culture are unmistakable — the data tells the story:

Leadership impact
70%

Managers account for up to 70% of the difference in employee engagement.

(Gallup)

Competitiveness
18th

Australia ranks 18th out of 69 economies 
in global competitiveness in 2025.

(International Institute for Management Development)

Trust gap
56%

More Australians trust business (56%) than CEOs (≈40%).

(Edelman Trust Barometer)

our mission
To help leaders embed merit, integrity and sound judgement into governance, decision-making and organisational culture – strengthening accountability, performance and trust.
our team
Leaders in judgement, governance and performance.

Our team brings deep experience across strategy, governance, public policy, leadership capability and organisational development.

Executives
Marcus Foord
Marcus Foord
Chief Executive Officer
Rebekah Hart
Rebekah Hart
Associate Director
Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall
Associate Director
Simmone Cottom
Simmone Cottom
Executive Assistant
our values & philosophy
Merit and integrity build high-performing, resilient organisations.
Uphold merit
Reward competence, judgement & contribution.
High-performing teams are built when advancement and influence are tied to capability and results - not status, politics or optics.
Uphold merit
Lead with Integrity
Do what is right, even when it is difficult.
When leaders are empowered to make sound decisions under pressure, ensuring short-term gains do not override long-term goals, trust grows.
Lead with Integrity
Embed culture by design
Design systems that reinforce good judgement
Redesign decision mechanisms so ethical conduct and strong performance reinforce one another.
Embed culture by design
our story
MIC’s Journey

MIC began with a simple observation: many leaders sensed that something in Australian corporate culture was no longer working. A group of professionals from diverse backgrounds came together, united by a shared desire to restore clarity, accountability and sound judgement. From that shared purpose, MIC was created – to help organisations build cultures where merit, integrity and performance reinforce one another.

2023

MIC’s journey began in 2023, following the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s inaugural conference in London, attended by several of our Directors. United by a shared belief that Australian corporate culture was under strain and that there had to be a better way, those Directors began exploring how best to put that conviction into practice.

2024

Further planning focused on weighing the need for MIC, including consideration of appropriate business structures and refining our understanding of the challenges facing organisations and how best to address them.

2025

The idea gained momentum in February at a conference in London, where one of Australia’s leading journalists spoke with Founding Director Tim Caughey about the clear need for an organisation like MIC to help restore corporate culture in Australia.

Shortly after, a Board of Directors was assembled, a CEO appointed, and MIC was registered as a company.

2026

MIC launched publicly and released its flagship positioning paper, Restoring Judgement: Merit, Integrity and the Future of Business Culture.