2019 Annual Meeting and Luncheon: Keynote - Giving Voice to Values

We will elect new officers and directors and hear "State of the Chapter" remarks from our new President, Jim Villa. Our keynote speaker will provide food for thought on values and leadership, and then we will have extra time for networking! Keynote - Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership Presented by Mary C. Gentile, PhD

Dr. Gentile will share a ground-breaking new approach to preparing professionals and leaders for values-driven action. Drawing on both the actual experience of business practitioners as well as cutting edge research, Giving Voice To Values (GVV) fills a long-standing and critical gap in our understanding of how to enable ethical practice. Rather than a focus on ethical analysis, GVV focuses on ethical implementation and asks the question: "What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?"

GVV was launched by The Aspen Institute and the Yale School of Management, with interim support at Babson College, and is now based at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. GVV was developed by Dr. Gentile, who is a pioneer in both ethics and diversity management curriculum, and the program is now being piloted in over 1,075 educational and executive settings across the globe. Giving Voice to Values holds the promise to transform the foundational assumptions upon which the development of values-driven leaders is based, and importantly, to equip professionals to not only know what is right "" but how to make it happen.