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Our Mission

Decision defensibility, built on discipline.

An independent publishing initiative producing structured instruments for decisions that may be reviewed later.

The Decision Protocol Institute exists to fill a critical gap: the distance between knowing that high-stakes decisions must be defensible and having the actual instruments, documentation standards, and archival disciplines to make them so. The first edition of the method is applied to AI deployment, where the defensibility gap is most acute today.

Why the Institute exists

Organizations need more than policies. They need structured instruments: classification protocols, documentation standards, challenge procedures, archival disciplines, and operational deployment guidance — so that decisions taken today will still hold when reviewed tomorrow, under conditions that cannot be predicted now.

Most organizations today understand that defensibility matters. Very few have the actual instruments to build it. The Decision Protocol Institute publishes these structures as immediately deployable materials — built on the procedural discipline of fiduciary control, the same standard used in banking, institutional risk, and regulatory compliance.

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How the materials are intended to be used

These instruments are designed for internal organizational use. They are downloadable, editable, and deployable. They are not consulting engagements, legal advice, certification programs, or software platforms.

Each framework includes policies, checklists, triage tools, rollout memos, interpretation guides, escalation matrices, worked examples, editable files, and interactive tools — structured for immediate internal deployment.

How these instruments are developed

The instruments are developed by applying the procedural discipline of fiduciary control — the same standard used in banking, institutional risk, and regulatory compliance — to the specific challenges of organizational AI use. Each document is structured to be audit-ready, internally enforceable, and operationally usable from day one.

The instruments are not generated from generic templates. They are purpose-built systems: every triage question, escalation threshold, classification tier, and deployment step has been designed to address the specific failure modes that organizations encounter when decisions are taken without contemporaneous documentation.

Our commitment

Every instrument is covered by a full refund policy. If the materials do not meet the standard your organization requires, you receive a complete refund — no questions, no friction. Read our refund policy →

Founder
Lamberto Iezzi, founder of The Decision Protocol Institute
Lamberto Iezzi
Founder, The Decision Protocol Institute™
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Born in Venice in 1964; married, three children. Classical humanistic schooling — participant in the Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas, the international Latin competition. Philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Early career as a registered journalist (giornalista pubblicista).

Over thirty-five years of senior leadership in European institutional banking, fiduciary governance, and regulatory risk — with top-management responsibilities at Banca Antonveneta, ABN AMRO Bank (Amsterdam headquarters), Banco Santander, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, MPS Fiduciaria (the trust company of the MPS Group, where he held senior management responsibility), and Banca Mediolanum. Direct accountability across all primary market segments — retail, private, corporate — covering fiduciary services, trust management, corporate governance frameworks, credit-risk oversight, generational wealth-transfer structures, and cross-jurisdictional regulatory compliance. Executive training at SDA Bocconi and CUOA Business School (Banking Risks & Basel Accords). Speaker in conference programs of SDA Bocconi and on Class CNBC, the pan-European economic and financial television channel.

Founder of Iezzi & Partners (Venice), a strategic-consulting boutique advising institutions and innovative enterprises. Founder and President of Prometeo in Venezia — Centro di Ricerca e Innovazione, a research and innovation center developing programs in collaboration with numerous Italian and international universities, with industry, and with public administrations.

Board Member of the Fondazione Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth (Villa Nazareth) — the pontifical foundation established by Pope John XXIII through chirograph on 13 January 1963, operating under the supervision of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State for the formation of university students of excellence.

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Sustained record as institutional speaker and panelist at the major environmental and biodiversity conventions promoted by the Italian Carabinieri Forestry, Environmental, and Agri-food Command, in coordination with cabinet ministries, the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, and Italian and international universities. These have included the international convention Nature in Mind (Rome, May 2022) — promoted by the Italian Carabinieri Biodiversity Command together with the Ministries of Education, Ecological Transition, and Agricultural Policies, alongside WWF Italy, Earth Day Italy, KKL Italy, Coldiretti, UNCEM, the Forum of the Third Sector, and Youth4Climate delegates — which featured messages from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, and from the Italian Minister of Defence, and the presentation of the Charter for Biodiversity Education promoted by the Presidency of the Italian Republic; the conference Foreste, Acqua, Vita (Greccio, March 2023), promoted by the Comando Carabinieri Forestale Lazio and the UNESCO Chair on Water Resources Management and Culture of the Università degli Studi della Tuscia, alongside WWF Italy, FAI, Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, Marevivo, and the Parchi Letterari, for the United Nations International Day of Forests and World Water Day; and the international conference Old-Growth Forests and Ancient Trees (Florence — Vallombrosa — Assisi, October 2025), promoted by the Italian Carabinieri Command for Forestry, Environmental, and Agri-food Affairs in coordination with the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, marking the tenth anniversary of Laudato si’ and the eight-hundredth centenary of Saint Francis of Assisi. Recent participation at the Settimana della Sostenibilità of Confindustria Veneto Est (Mogliano Veneto, Treviso) — the principal annual sustainability convention of the Veneto industrial system.

Recipient of the 2025 Premio “Sentinella del Creato” at the XX Forum dell’Informazione Cattolica per la Custodia del Creato (Pescasseroli, November 2025) — conferred by Greenaccord ETS under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), the Italian Sport and Health agency, the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, Vatican News, Radio Vaticana, L’Osservatore Romano, Avvenire, and the National Federation of the Italian Press (FNSI). Jury Member of the Italian Literary Prize “Il Libro della Vita” (4th edition, 2026) — under the patronage of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Veneto Region; Honorary President Mons. Vincenzo Paglia (President of the Pontifical Academy for Life), Jury President Marina Valensise (former Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris); award ceremony at Palazzo Santo Stefano, Padua, 17 October 2026. Standing collaboration with the literary prize “Le Pagine della Terra”, founded by Maestro Claudio Cutuli and dedicated to writing on the human–environment relationship.

The Decision Protocol Institute is a new venture, but the thirty-five-year track record on which its method rests — senior institutional banking and trust governance at named European groups, pontifical foundation administration under the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, recognition by Vatican and civil bodies for environmental and biodiversity work, jury role in literary culture under pontifical patronage, sustained presence at the speaker tables of the highest civil, military, ecclesiastical, and academic conventions in Italy — is the founder’s own. Across these settings the recurring problem is structurally identical: how does an institution decide responsibly under uncertainty, and how does it prove afterward that the decision was made well. The Decision Protocol Institute applies the same fiduciary-grade procedural discipline to that question, in any domain. AI deployment is the first edition of the method, because the defensibility gap is most acute there today. The method itself is domain-agnostic.

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