Ethical Leadership

General

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Date: 5:00pm — 6:00pm, 22 June 2022
Venue: Online
Location: Online
Price members: $30.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $50.00 incl GST

Overview

In this session we will discuss organisational ethics, human good, and the role of boards and directors. We invite you to take part in the discussion with our speakers and have the opportunity to questions of the panel, facilitated by Kirsten (KP) Patterson.

As businesses around New Zealand tussle with ethics in an uncertain world, we need to ask ourselves why we are making the decisions we make and whether they are the right ones. How do our choices impact the world around us? Do they benefit you alone, or do they contribute to the common good?

Your registration also includes a copy of the book; HumanGood, A field guide to ethical leadership. This will be posted out to you.

Professor Karin Lasthuizen

Professor Karin Lasthuizen is the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership - Aritahi at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

Professor Lasthuizen’s work provides evidence-based insights and international best practices that can improve ethical leadership in business and government across New Zealand and help mitigate the ethical risks that can lead to organisational failures. Her research and consultancy work focuses on ethical leadership and ethics management in public and private sector organisations and she specialises in methodology for research into organisational unethical behaviours, such as corruption, fraud and interpersonal deviance. Professor Lasthuizen has numerous publications in national and international journals and books, and is co-author of the newly published book “HUMANGOOD. A field guide to ethical leadership” (2021). She recently received a research grant to lead a team that will investigate political integrity and release an annual Political Integrity Index for New Zealand in the coming years. Professor Lasthuizen also offers a free online course (MOOC) “Ethical Leadership in a Changing World” via the EdX platform to professionals and students worldwide.

Professor Lasthuizen is a founder of the international academic research network on Public and Political Leadership and she is the NZ National Partner for the global Ethics at Work Employee Survey of the UK Institute of Business Ethics. In recent years she has also chaired the Ethics Committee of Transparency International New Zealand.

James Bushell

James Bushell is the founding director of MOTIF, a boutique investment and business advisory firm for organisations that want to create a more equitable and sustainable world. He is a leading strategist in incorporating ethics and sustainability into commercial models and has had governance and executive experience in developing, emerging and developed economies. James is also an author and recently released a book called HUMANGOOD – a field guide to ethical leadership.

Jane Arnott

Jane is the director of The Ethics Conversation. Her focus is developing and presenting business and professional ethics together with code of ethics and speak up workshops and consultancy for professional bodies, private and listed companies. Prior to this she was the first offshore Associate and Country Representative for the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), UK, a position she held for over ten years. Jane was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2021 and in December 2021 was appointed Adjunct Research Fellow for the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership, Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington. The Ethics Conversation launched its first report ‘An Assessment of the Codes of Ethics (or Conduct) of the NZX 50,’ in September 2021 and previously Janes co-authored IBE publication ‘Setting the Tone: A New Zealand Perspective on Ethical Business Leadership’, was launched in both London and Auckland.

Jane gained her post graduate Professional Ethics at the University of Auckland undertaking further study in London with the Institute of Business Ethics.

Her early career was in communications and strategy across health, technology, transport logistics, conservation and engineering. As executive director she ran a nationwide not-for-profit and as CEO she ran a strategic entity for the Wood Council of New Zealand.