Experts in ethical compliance and risk support
Targeted support for your business
Our aim is pragmatic, rapid and effective support for clients with compliance, data and regulatory challenges. Whether you are anticipating or responding to challenges, whether they are big or small, we aim to give you high-quality, experienced support.
Etica has been founded by Sandra Quinn to work directly with clients, bringing together experience of regulation, compliance, process, business operations and change using years of practical and challenging experience.
We are knowledgeable, practical and people oriented. Where the most experienced people are at the sharp end with the client.
Integrated ethics, compliance and privacy as strengths
Ethical compliance is our passion. Ethics are a good thing but often struggle against the commercial. Our aim is to help you reconcile the two with smart operations and a business which is successful, respected and sustainable.
For many, operating within regulatory requirements and dealing with regulators is an essential skill. Whether seeking regulatory licences, getting approvals or managing regulatory change and crystallised regulatory risk, we help you navigate the landscape, meet the challenges and ensure you are where you need to be.
Effective management of privacy and personal data is key to most businesses. Personal data is fuel to business and something in which each of us has a personal stake. We provide strategic and operational support through provision of review, advisory and DPO support.
Growth means using feedback positively and encouraging speaking up cultures in our businesses. We provide compliance and investigation support in relation to whistleblowing and aim to turn this into a valued indicator of an organisation’s health and development.
Support through partnership
How we can help
Partnership is an over-used promise. But we mean it. People are central to every business. So we aim to combine high quality analysis and professional discipline with a supportive, human approach which is ready to challenge and call things as they are.
Partnering is central to what we do. We are people who have worked with start-ups who have gone on to become household names. This has included working with people continuously over years or periodically through a trusted relationship and knowing that we are prepared to talk straight to them even when it the right answer isn’t the one they would ideally like.
“We can nuance and adapt. But we are prepared to say it straight.”
We can bring wide experience and skills to apply directly to your challenges. We provide thought through advice tailored to your realities and desired outcomes.
We can provide business and compliance reviews which tell you how you are doing, where your gaps and strengths are and provide crisp programmes to address those.
We bring particular support for compliance and regulatory teams looking to develop and mature through mentoring and coaching, whether individually, in groups, face to face or remotely.
And we aim to leave. Like fish, consultants should not hang around too long. We see success where our client relationships evolve, or simply they don’t need us in the same way … or anymore.
How we work
Advice and support
Business, compliance and privacy reviews. Expert advice, provision of a sounding board on an occasional or continuing basis. The key is to establish what you need and what is most useful to you.
Mentoring and coaching
Supporting, acting on a critical friend basis through regular calls, sessions, or being there to bounce ideas off. This can help people who want to grow their experience of providing key staff with extra support.
Training
Providing Board, Executive and business teams with tailored, relevant training on regulatory, compliance or privacy issues. Supporting regulatory approvals, preparing for regulatory or due diligence meetings.
What our clients say
Professionalism with a human face.
Unique ability to connect issues and look round corners for us.
Commercially aware and focused on the practical made business implementation so much easier.
Driven by our outcomes rather than billing and timesheets.
Reassurance through knowledge, experience and insight - delivered in plain English. A pleasure to work with!
Etica Advisory have been an invaluable partner to the business, working closely alongside us with a refreshingly pragmatic and professional approach.
Sandra is the upmost "trusted source" when it comes to ensuring data privacy and compliance within our company. What I admire so much is that Sandra not only provides the rigorous backdrop of compliance but equally a pragmatic application which will work effectively and efficiently within our operations.
Client Stories