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Driving Profit Through Ethical Leadership

Ethical Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner

Date: June 3, 2008

Location: The Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor (New York City)

Who should attend? Attendance is limited to 150 senior executives.

Description:
Companies with a strong ethical culture and reputation for integrity are consistently outperforming their competitors. In surveys, consumers have demonstrated a preference for goods and services produced ethically.

The next generation of employees—and leaders—want to join businesses that value ethics, and not just the bottom line. In today’s global marketplace, where companies are not only concerned about a corporate culture but also the merging of several different cultures, how do you lead ethically? How do you convey the importance of an ethical corporate environment to your employees around the world? To shareholders and stakeholders? And why should you even try? Do sound ethics really drive profit?

Panelists:

• Tim Albinson, CEO - Aravo Solutions, Inc.
• Alan Boeckmann, CEO – Fluor
• Alex Brigham, Executive Director, Ethisphere Institute
• Sharie A. Brown, Partner, White Collar Crime and Corporate Compliance – Foley & Lardner
• John Compton, CEO - PepsiCo America’s Foods
• Pascale Helene Dubois, Sanctions Evaluation and Suspension Officer, The World Bank Group
• Robert A. Eckert, Chairman and CEO - Mattel, Inc.
• Barbara Fiorito, Board Chair, Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International
• Sam Fleischmann, VP and Deputy General Counsel, salesforce.com, inc.
• Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO, Forbes, Editor-in-Chief, Forbes magazine, U.S.
• David Frishkorn, Director, Business Ethics & Compliance Office - Xerox Corp.
• Wendy A. Hallgren, Vice President, Corporate Compliance - Fluor
• Jonathan Halperin, Director, Research & Advocacy, SustainAbility
• Lisa Hayles, Senior Client Relationship Manager - Ethical Investment Research Services
• Andy Hinton, Associate GC and CCO – Google
• Asuncion Cummings Hostin, Esq., Managing Director Business Intelligence and Investigations – Kroll
• Joe Keefe, President and CEO - Pax World Management Corp.
• Peter D. Kinder, President KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.
• Mike Lawrence, EVP Corporate Responsibility Practice – Cone, Inc.
• Erin Lewin, VP, Assistant General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Avnet, Inc.
• Mindy Lubber, President - Ceres
• Jay Martin, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel, Baker Hughes Incorporated
• Jerry Moskowitz, Managing Director of FTSE Americas – FTSE4Good
• Neil Nyberg, Vice President and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer – Kellogg Company
• Gloria Santona, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary, McDonald’s Corporation
• Leonard Shen, SVP, Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, American Express
• Dave Steiner, CEO – Waste Management
• Noel Tichy, Professor of Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business - University of Michigan & Coauthor, Judgement: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
• Bruce Upbin, Assistant Managing Editor - Forbes magazine
• Andrew Weissmann, Partner - Jenner & Block LLP
• Melanie Wells, Assistant Managing Editor - Forbes magazine

Ethisphere Members: Please click here to email Erin Russell and find out your members only code

Non-Members: Register Now!

Corporate Sponsorships: Available for only $5,000 and include dinner seating for up to 10 and signage at table, event and in forum program. Please contact Dan Appelson for more information.

Event Schedule

Ethical Leadership Conference Agenda

SESSION 1: LEADING BY EXAMPLE: THE CEO AS AN ETHICAL ROLE MODEL
9:05 a.m.—10:00 a.m.

Some of the biggest challenges facing today’s leaders are how to set an ethical tone from the top, how to most effectively deliver this message to employees and how to be sure that your message is being received and embraced by line workers as well as suppliers, customers and partners. Just how involved are today’s top executives in creating this message and how do they ensure that it resonates throughout the entire company? This roundtable discussion will allow some of the leaders of the world’s largest corporations to discuss their own experience as Chief Executive, with specific attention to their own practices and responsibilities when it comes to creating and maintaining an ethical environment.

SESSION 2: HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE VALUE IN VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP
10:20 a.m.—11:15 a.m.
A values-based culture is not only helpful in developing and maintaining an effective ethics and compliance program—it’s essential. The best companies ensure that ethical guiding principles and beliefs resonate on all levels of their corporate structure. What is the value of this caliber of ethical leadership? Among many other benefits, an ethical reputation and culture can be critical to a company’s success in attracting and retaining high quality talent, thereby having a knock-on effect on turnover, productivity and employee morale—and thus the bottom line. What does a values-based culture entail, and how successful has it been for the companies that have established values-based systems thus far?

SESSION 3: “GOING GREEN” AND SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY
11:15 a.m.—12:10 p.m.
Recent studies show that consumers are paying increasing attention to claims of sustainability and ethical sourcing—and are paying higher prices for sustainable goods and services. As a result, more and more companies are looking at cutting-edge means of improving the sustainability of their purchasing, manufacturing and overall business practices. What does this trend mean for your industry? Companies are making claims of “going green,” having Fair-Trade Certified products or disclosing their own carbon footprint. How sustainable are these trends, and are they worth the time and resources that they require? When all is said and done, how are these strategies reflective of your company’s ethics?

BREAKOUT SESSION 1: PREPARING FOR COMPLIANCE CATASTROPHES
1:30p.m.—2:30 p.m.
You receive word that your company is being investigated for bribery. Now what? What could go wrong sometimes does, and even lapses in judgment on the smallest scale can have devastating effects on the largest of organizations. There are several measures that a company can take to reduce the risks associated with these events. What are the most common ethical dilemmas faced by companies, and how will they affect your organization’s ethics and reputation?

BREAKOUT SESSION 2: MEASURING THE RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT IN ETHICS
1:30p.m.—2:30 p.m.
How do you know that being ethical is profitable? One measure may be the performance of your company’s stock price (if you are public), but that is overly simplistic. What are the drivers for profit that are directly reflective of ethical behavior and leadership? Where should you spend your time and money, and what affect do these efforts have on your internal culture and external perception?

SESSION 4: THE VIEW FROM INVESTORS
2:50 p.m.—3:45 p.m.
More and more funds are reportedly ‘socially responsible’ in their investment strategies. Banks and lenders are beginning to claim that the ethics and green criteria of projects and borrowers are examined before granting credit extensions. To top it off, researchers and investors are insisting that such strategies yield results that outperform the rest of the market. Just how big is the SRI trend? What qualifies a company as a socially responsible investment and how much should a corporation care?

SESSION 5: GLOBAL ETHICS AND LEGAL CHALLENGES
3:45 p.m.—4:40 p.m.
Part of being ethical is staying out of legal trouble. A single material compliance failure can waylay and waste the best efforts put forth for ethical leadership, community involvement and corporate social responsibility. How does a corporation maintain a consistent, ethical message while still adjusting to local customs? Where and what are the major legal land mines that companies need to keep in mind (in other words enforcement initiatives and trends)? And how is the legal landscape changing the standards that large corporations must abide by?

SESSION 6: LOOKING AHEAD: THE FUTURE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
5:00 p.m.—5:50 p.m.
What will the landscape of ethics and compliance look like years from now? We have seen indications of what’s ahead—and while some trends won’t quite catch on, others stand to become commonplace. How can companies ensure that they are ahead of the curve when preparing for these changes? What can organizations anticipate as being “best practices” in 5 years? 20 years?

World’s Most Ethical Companies 2008

Editors from Ethisphere and Forbes will unveil The World’s Most Ethical Companies 2008 for the first time at the conference’s formal dinner.

In assembling the rankings of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, the researchers and editors at The Ethisphere Institute™ examine thousands of companies across 30+ separate industries looking for true ethical leadership. They look for absolutes. They examine companies in relational context of their industries. And they look for influential leadership that moves others to change or follow. Companies are measured in a rigorous eight-step process and then scored against nine distinct ethical leadership criteria.

The winners of the World’s Most Ethical Companies are the standouts. Each of these companies has materially higher scores versus competitors in their industries. Each forces other companies to follow its leadership or fall behind. Each uses ethical leadership as a profit driver. And each of these companies embodies the true spirit of Ethisphere’s credo: Good. Smart. Business. Profit.™

// Click here to nominate your organization for the 2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies.

The Rainbow Room

In 1934, in the depth of the greatest depression in history, John D. Rockefeller Sr. completed his testimony to faith in New York City and the economy of America, Rockefeller Center. From that time Rockefeller Center would be the benchmark that all urban development is measured against. The crowning jewel of this magnificent project was the Rainbow Room on the sixty-fifth floor of Thirty Rockefeller Plaza, the tallest and most prominent building in the complex. The room was designed to symbolize all the glamour and elegance of New York nightlife. From its opening day the Rainbow Room has epitomized Manhattan luxury to both native New Yorkers and visitors from around the world.

Since its debut on October 3, 1934, the Rainbow Room has epitomized New York style, glamor and sophistication. The Rainbow Room was conceived as a formal supper club, an intimate establishment where the elite and influential of New York could gather to socialize over cocktails, dine on fine cuisine, dance to the strains of legendary big bands on a revolving floor bathed in color lights from the organ.

In 1974 John D. Rockefeller’s son David oversaw a painstaking twenty-five million dollar restoration and expansion of the Rainbow Room’s facilities, ushering in a new era of prominence for what many architects and designers consider to be the “most perfect room in New York”.

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Ethisphere Members: Please click here to email Erin Russell and find out your members only code

Non-Members: Register Now!

Corporate Sponsorships: Available for only $5,000 and include dinner seating for up to 10 and signage at table, event and in forum program. Please contact Dan Appelson for more information.