That is, leadership must truly buy into the culture and lead by example. The panel agreed: a truly ethical corporate culture can only be attained through top-down leadership. Panel Speakers (left to right): Walter Isenberg, Sage Hospitality Maisha Fields, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Communications T.J. Hasty, director of ethics and compliance for Lockheed Martin and Walter Isenberg, founder, president, and CEO of Sage Hospitality. Panelists included Maisha Fields, a professor at the CU Denver Department of Communication T.J. A crowd of over 150 listened with interest, as panelists shared their experiences with implementing ethical business leadership from the top down. Recently, a panel of business leaders participated in a discussion hosted by the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the University of Colorado Denver Business School.
So how can you define an ethical corporate culture if these huge organizations aren’t able to? When you hear “business ethics”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? A lack of ethical behavior in many well-known organizations? Corporations like Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, and even the NFL Patriots’-They’ve all been widely criticized for unethical behavior.
