Curtis Leicht is the Manager of Culture Services at Ethisphere. He leads a team of Culture Analysts who guide Ethisphere clients through their Ethical Culture Improvement Journey. The Culture Team at Ethisphere specializes in providing bespoke survey and benchmarking solutions to measure and improve ethics culture for organizations around the world. The team also provides insights into global ethics culture trends, through analysis of over 4.5 million survey responses from 300+ organizations around the world. These insights help to drive program maturity and innovation in the Ethics & Compliance space.
Curtis is a graduate of Luther College in Decorah, IA. He received the Henry O Talle Award for ranking near the top of the College of Business at Luther College. He grew up a fan of the University of Iowa athletics, especially football. Curtis is an avid golfer, runner, and enjoys building computers in his free time.
Lori is a Director of BELA engagement. She has over 30 years’ experience in supporting customers. She focuses on the customer needs by reviewing priorities and expected outcomes then works them closely to ensure needs are being met.
Prior to joining our team at Ethisphere, Lori spent 22 years with Thomson Reuters supporting law firms and academic institutions. Most recently, she was with an educational technology company where she served as a partnership manager. In this role, she worked closely with school districts to help elevate their student outcomes.
Lori serves as a Meals on Wheels volunteer.
She lives in a river-town community south east of St Paul MN where she enjoys boating with her husband and dogs on the St Croix and Mississippi Rivers.
Jonathan Whitacre is the Executive Vice President of Ethisphere and leads growth strategy and revenue production for both the Ethisphere Services business and the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA).
Mr. Whitacre has a 19-year history in the legal, regulatory and compliance space. Most recently, he was Director of Sales at NYSE Governance Services, Corpedia, and led sales and account management for accounts in the southeastern USA. Services focused on ethics and compliance training as well as ethics program assessment and rehabilitation.
Prior to the NYSE, Mr. Whitacre served in various business development, consulting and leadership roles at Thomson Legal & Regulatory, now Thomson Reuters.
Mr. Whitacre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When not at work, you might find Jonathan training for another triathlon, out trail-running or on a back-country adventure.
Amy Volpe is a Senior Director of BELA Engagement at Ethisphere.
Prior to joining Ethisphere, Amy spent 8 years with the federal government, most recently at the State Department as the Chief of Staff of the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships where she worked extensively on engaging the private sector in diplomatic and development efforts. Prior to this, Amy was the Director of External Affairs at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration at the Commerce Department. Before her time in Washington D.C., Amy served as a senior policy advisor to Senator John F. Kerry in Boston and practiced corporate law at Foley & Lardner LLP.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Boston College Law School and Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management.
