Our research into post-disclosure survival highlighted how little we know about people’s real life experiences, after they have spoken up.  How do others gain meaningful employment, after leaving their organization due to a whistleblowing incident? How have people dealt with impacts of speaking out on career opportunities?

Working with people who have found themselves in this situation, we have created short and accessible summaries of people’s career stories. Each highlights the aspects of their post-disclosure survival that really made a difference to them. 

Our hope is that these stories will be useful to other people. They are particularly relevant for those who find themselves struggling to make sense of a difficult situation, wondering how they will be able to cope with the experience of speaking out and how it will impact their career. They will also be of interest to those who work to support whistleblowers.

1. Richard Bowen: A Career Escape Route (U.S. Financial Services Sector)
2. Cathy Scharf: Quiet Exit (U.S. Financial Services Sector)
3. James Shelton: Back to Government (Australian Financial Services Sector)
4. Kim Holt: Putting Patient Safety First (U.K. National Health Service)
5. Martin: Hired for being a Whistleblower (U.K. Financial Services Sector)
6. Wendy Addison: Nothing Left to Lose (South African Leisure and Health Club Industry)
7. Dennis: The Whistleblower who Stayed (Australian Financial Services Sector)

UK’s Protect also has a series of whistleblower case studies. See also the US Government Accountability Project’s Whistleblower Profiles.

Professor David Lewis's valuable article "Retaliation for whistleblowing: some case studies on the experience of re-employment/redeployment" is published at International Journal of Law and Management. 64 (3), pp. 292-307. A downloadable copy is here

We are indebted to each person for giving their time and care to this. We thank Alexis Bushnell and Niamh Nic Aodha Bhui for work in compiling these.