Center for Organizational Ethics - Lead from The Heart Lectures

A Prayer Breakfast with Archbishop Joseph Tobin “Stewardship of Creation” A unique opportunity to hear the Archbishop of Indianapolis address creation care and comes in the context of the current Pope’s strong focus on the environment. Saturday, March 28th: 8:00 – 10:00 am Marian University, Indianapolis Co-sponsors: St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Creation Care Ministry The Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg Marian University Center for Organizational Ethics

Implementing effective ethics training and communications is one of the seven steps required by the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations to have an overall 'effective' ethics and compliance program. This presentation will provide key methodologies that can be used to develop an organizational ethics and compliance training and communications program. Charles Giesting is the Senior Consultant of Global Ethics, Compliance, and Strategy for Integrity Leadership Partners, LLC (ILP). Prior to founding ILP, Giesting worked for over 10 years in the business ethics and compliance field starting with his advancement from a part-time company ombudsman role to local ethics officer and then finally to corporate ethics program manager for Rolls-Royce North America. Now, besides providing consulting and management services for his clients, he is active in professional associations, teaches as an adjunct instructor for Indiana Wesleyan University, and is overall more passionate than ever about helping others by using his leadership knowledge and skills in the areas of business ethics and compliance, organizational development, business strategy formulation, and implementation. Holding a bachelor's degree in engineering management from Purdue University and a master's of business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, where his class voted him 'Outstanding Professional', Giesting founded ILP to help achieve his vision to help companies promote ethical leadership and sound business strategies.

Kathryn Haigh is Deputy Director for Collections, Exhibitions and Facilities Management at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

"A Last Lecture" from Dr. Douglas K. Uselding

By now everyone knows about Edward Snowden’s leaking of classified documents revealing the practice of the National Security Agency in mining data from the cell phones and email logs of American citizens. New revelations about the extent of the gathering and use of data appear in the media every day. The conversation surrounding these practices usually ranges from outrage over the invasion of privacy of a huge segment of the American population to support for the practice if the intended effect is to protect us from terrorist attacks. In the wake of these revelations, stories have arisen about the role of local governments in surveillance of license plates and of business in mining data on consumer buying patterns. Three days ago the New York Times ran an article about how cities like Oakland, CA, and New York City are mounting devices in police cars that scan license plates in efforts to fight crime and track down terrorist threats. In an article in Forbes Magazine called “How Target Figured Out a Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did” writer Kashmir Hill notes that Target was able to track a young woman’s buying patterns and target advertising and coupons to her at critical times during her pregnancy.Our three panelists and I agree that this is an issue that has important ethical, legal, and foreign policy implications that warrant a public discussion. So this panel discussion is an effort to at least begin that conversation.

Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D. is a senior research scholar at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and director of Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering approach to values-driven leadership that has been piloted globally in more than 250 business schools and organizations. Recorded 2/19/13.

A discussion of ethics featuring Professor Karen Spear, the Director for the Center of Organizational Ethics at Marian University. Recorded 7/21/12.

Dr. Barry Padgett is the James M. Medlin Chair of Business Ethics and professor of management at Belmont University. Recorded 2/23/12.