Become an HQP Partner

HQP Partners deliver the HQP Assessment to their customers, clients, and member organizations. The assessment evidences program effectiveness against leading regulatory and enforcement criteria and now includes the Responsible AI Governance Module, which benchmarks AI governance across the dimensions boards and regulators evaluate.

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Benefits of Partnering With Us

Built on a Proven Framework

The HQP Assessment is grounded in ECI’s HQP Framework, giving partners a credible, ready-to-deploy solution backed by the ethics and compliance industry’s definition of excellence.

Independent and Trusted Evaluation

Partners offer their members or clients objective, third-party insights they can rely on to improve their ethics and compliance efforts.

Enhances Your Value Proposition

By offering ECI’s HQP Assessment, partners can expand their services with a high-quality, differentiated solution that strengthens relationships and delivers tangible value.

Aligned with Leading Practices

The assessment benchmarks programs against recognized standards, helping your members or clients understand where they stand and how to improve.

Actionable, Client-Ready Insights

HQP delivers clear, practical findings that partners can confidently share—supporting meaningful conversations and ongoing engagement with their audience.

“As an HQP Partner, we established a defense-industry benchmark for ethics and compliance programs enabling us to track our industry’s progress over time. The HQP Assessment empowers our members to periodically reassess their programs, make improvements, and drive continuous growth. Through this partnership, we are elevating compliance standards and delivering measurable, practical advancements that strengthen our entire industry.”

-Defense Industry Initiative, HQP Partner