Sometimes we think that in order to act on our values we need to be hugely courageous, to be bold, to be a risk taker, an extrovert, an assertive person. And of course, sometimes those characteristics do, in fact, enable people to act ethically... We just need to identify our own best approach and frame our challenges in ways that play to our individual strengths and tendencies.
ClimateVoices · Episode 86 · 01-21-26
An interview with Mary Gentile, author of Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right, which offers an action-oriented approach to values-based leadership. Mary is Creator/Director of Giving Voice to Values; (formerly) the Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at University of Virginia Darden School of Business; Senior Advisor at Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; and consultant on management education and leadership development.
Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering business curriculum for values-driven leadership, has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, etc. and presented and/or piloted in over 1,500 business schools and organizations globally. Among numerous other awards, Gentile was named “2024-25 Practitioner in Residence” at Notre Dame University Institute of Ethics and the Common Good and was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2021.
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Mary Gentile
Author of Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right
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