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CEO Ethics Seminar^TM

The Program

The Institute's flagship program is the preeminent forum for chief executives to share best practices and best thinking regarding ethics with peers. These half-day sessions are led by the Institute's world-class instructors who are faculty at top business schools. The seminar provides a unique value proposition for CEOs to engage in in-depth discussion with academic experts about the most critical issues facing today’s business leaders.

The Institute Difference

Unlike other forums, the CEO Ethics Seminar provides:

• A small and intimate environment that fosters leading practice exchange among peer CEOs
• Business case studies to spark highly interactive conversations about critical ethics issues
• Excellent instructors who combine thought leadership with decades of hands-on experience guiding leaders from a variety of industries

Who Should Attend

• Business Roundtable Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Executives who are interested in integrating ethics into the management practices of their firms, and who want to learn how their peers are handling the ethics issues of today while preparing for those of tomorrow

Benefits of Attending

To gain insights into current ethical challenges and learn how to:

• Build and strengthen an ethical culture
• Develop a strategic, enterprise approach to ethics
• Foster trust among your firm’s stakeholders
• Identify issues your firm is likely to face in the next 5-10 years
• Earn Director Education Credits from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)

Topics

The seminar curriculum addresses the current issues facing leaders and their organizations. Modules include:

• Ethical Leadership and the Role of the Chief Executive
• Embedding Ethics into the Corporate Culture
• Creating an Ethical Framework
• Getting Bad News Early
• Private Equity and Ethics

Participant Profile

• CEOs of leading companies
• The average annual revenues of past participants' firms is $14.6 Billion
• The average number of employees of past participants' firms is 47,000

Program Leaders

		Thomas Donaldson is the Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Wharton PhD Program in Ethics and Law. He is an Academic Advisor with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. At Wharton he has received many teaching awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award (in 2001, 2000, 1999 , and 1998). In the summer of 2002, he testified in the US Senate regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform legislation.
		R. Edward Freeman is the Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. He is Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at The Darden School and heads Darden's Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, one of the world's leading academic centers for the study of ethics. A recognized expert in the area of business ethics, Freeman has written or edited 10 books on business ethics, environmental management, and strategic management.

Registration and Contact Information

For registration information or more details on the time and location of upcoming CEO Ethics Seminars please contact:

Lisa Stewart, Program Manager
(434) 982-2177
seminars@corporate-ethics.org