Carrie Penman, President, Ethical Leadership Group
Carrie Penman is President, Ethical Leadership Group, and has been with the company since July 2003. She does custom ethics consulting work for Ethical Leadership Group clients in the areas of program and culture assessment; communications; executive and all-employee training; and program strategy and integration. She is also serving as a government approved monitor/external ethics advisor for several companies with government Administrative Agreements.
Before joining Ethical Leadership Group, Carrie served as the Deputy Director and Ethics Officer of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association (ECOA) from 2000 to 2003. In this role, Carrie managed the design and delivery of all member services including conferences, forums, executive education courses, benchmarking and research, as well as the Association’s internal ethics initiatives.
Prior to joining the ECOA, Carrie served as the Director of the Corporate Ethics Office for Westinghouse Electric Corporation from 1994 to 1999. In that position, she developed and implemented the first Westinghouse comprehensive, corporation-wide, ethics and compliance program for a global employee population of 76,000 in diverse business segments including defense and government-related operations. Carrie joined Westinghouse in 1979 at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and advanced to the position of senior scientist. She moved into the corporation's commercial environmental operations and remediation activities and then managed the development of the corporation’s environmental management programs.
Carrie is currently an Executive Fellow at the Bentley University Center for Business Ethics. She previously served on the ECOA Board of Directors and its Executive Committee; participated as an advisor for the research project on Ethics Programs: the Role of the Board, conducted by The Conference Board; and served on the Advisory Board for the Duquesne University, Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics.
Carrie is a frequent speaker at Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics, and Conference Board events as well as other ethics conferences and forums. She is a member of the faculty of the Managing Ethics in Organizations course that is co-sponsored by the ECOA and the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. She has also recently published several articles on best practices in benchmarking.
A 1979 graduate of Purdue University, Carrie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in textile science.
Steve Priest, Founder of Ethical Leadership Group and Senior Advisor to Global Compliance
Steve Priest is the Founder of Ethical Leadership Group and Senior Advisor to Global Compliance. He was described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the most sought consultants to keep companies on the straight and narrow.”
Steve has conducted seminars on business ethics in 40 countries. He speaks before organizations like the Conference Board, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of General Counsels and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association. He’s raised awareness of the importance of ethical behavior on television, radio, newspaper and magazines.
Most of Steve’s work, however, is with corporate clients. Priest has consulted with 25% of the Fortune 200. The Code of Conduct policies he has written are required reading for over one million employees around the world. His client list is filled with blue chip companies, including Honda of America, Abbott Laboratories, McDonald’s, Marathon Oil, Motorola and Sara Lee.
Prior to founding the Ethical Leadership Group in 1993, Steve Priest was for three years executive director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy, a Chicago-based ethics think tank. Priest received his ethics training both in the real world of business and inside the ivy covered walls at Harvard University’s Divinity School, where he received a Master of Theological Studies degree. He has his MBA and BA from the University of Chicago, and studied international organizational development in the Graduate Business School at the Katholieke University of Leuven in Belgium.
In addition to consulting and speaking, Steve served as Program Director of the Conference Board’s Ethics Conference. He’s the father of three children, who believe that good ethics and good leadership are pretty simple. In theory they are right. Putting theory into practical action for the real world of business is where Priest and the Ethical Leadership Group excel.
Mary Bennett, Vice President, Ethical Leadership Group
Mary Bennett is Vice President of Ethical Leadership Group. She joined the company in 1999 when it was a one-consultant company and has helped to grow it into an organization that has served 25% of the Fortune 200 in 40 countries worldwide.
Mary has been invited to share her expertise at many conferences including The Conference Board, the Health Care Compliance Association and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association on topics such as basic business ethics management, taking training to the next level, and ethics risk assessment and management.
Since joining Ethical Leadership Group, Mary has pioneered innovative ethics training and assessment methods. She has a long list of award winning communications, customized video work and training programs to her credit.
Prior to her work at the Ethical Leadership Group, Mary served as Vice President of the Compliance and Integrity Group at Caremark. During her tenure, she implemented CIA requirements, grew the employee helpline function and developed a helpline computer management system. She created and implemented award winning training programs for over 800 health care facilities across the country, wrote compliance and communication plans and implemented human resource tools to embed ethics into the reward systems.
Mary is a registered pharmacist by training and has over twenty years of management, education, and clinical experience. She has published and consulted nationally and internationally in the areas of disease state management, drug information services, and stability assessments/policies and procedures.
When she is not consulting, Mary has participated in the Character Matters of Lake County community organization which is devoted to bringing character education into area schools.
Ed Petry, Vice President, Ethical Leadership Group
Edward S. Petry, PhD, joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2005, after serving nine years as the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). The ECOA is the premier association for ethics and compliance officers in the world, and Ed helped make it so.
At the ECOA, Ed oversaw the development of the most widely attended conferences and training programs in the business ethics field. He developed partnerships between the ECOA and the World Bank, the U.S. Sentencing Commission and ethics and compliance organizations in Paris, London, Tokyo and Johannesburg.
Ed also served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Advisory Group that wrote and recommended the 2004 amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations. He was also a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the United States Olympic Committee.
Ed has authored several major surveys including the U.S. Sentencing Commission's National Survey of Ethics and Compliance in Organizations, Sources and Consequences of Workplace Pressure, and Technology and Ethics in the Workplace. He has edited and/or co-authored six books on business ethics, including The Ethical Edge: Tales of Organizations that Have Faced Moral Crises and The Ethics of Accounting and Finance. He has also published dozens of articles, been a featured speaker at numerous national and international forums including the Conference Board, the Chautauqua Institute and the European Business Ethics Institute, and has been quoted or appeared in too many media outlets to list.
Ed received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and has also received degrees in philosophy from The University of Toronto and Trinity College. Prior to becoming the ECOA's first full-time director, Ed was a tenured professor of philosophy at Bentley University.
Andrew Foose, Co-President, Training and Education Solutions
Andrew Foose is a former senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, where he was hired under the Attorney General's Honors Program. During his time with the Department of Justice, Andrew investigated and litigated numerous cases against employers across the country and brought the Department of Justice's first "pattern or practice" employment discrimination cases based on sexual harassment - an expertise that has helped to define the content in Global Compliance's online preventing sexual harassment training courses. Andrew is recognized among the country's leading experts on conducting lawful and effective internal investigations and has trained thousands of compliance officers, attorneys, human resource professionals, auditors, and others on investigative techniques.
Andrew has been asked numerous times to speak on behalf of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at its Technical Advisory Program Seminars and on behalf of the Society for Human Resources (SHRM), the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), the Association for Certified Fraud Specialists, and other organizations throughout the country. Andrew is a renowned trainer and has designed highly interactive, results-oriented online training programs on ethics, compliance and employment law topics. Recently, Andrew has worked with large multi-national companies to assess their ethics and compliance programs and to provide guidance on ways to enhance the programs.
Andrew is a graduate of Harvard University, Columbia University School of Law, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.
Santiago Zorzopulos Reich, Senior Consultant, Ethical Leadership Group
Santiago Zorzopulos Reich joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2005. Prior to joining Ethical Leadership Group, Santiago was the Dubai Ethics Resource Center’s Manager of Programs where he helped launch the new Center and create its portfolio of products and services. His work in Dubai included: founding the Corporate Directors’ Leadership Forum; conducting a high-profile research program on ethics and corporate responsibility in the Gulf region; and implementing several client-specific projects for public and private organizations.
Prior to his position in Dubai, Santiago was the Manager of Corporate Responsibility Reporting at Chiquita Brands International where he wrote two award-winning corporate responsibility reports. These reports are available online at www.chiquita.com. Santiago began his career in ethics as the World Bank Group’s Business Ethics Research Specialist, where he worked on implementing world-class standards throughout the organization.
Santiago has been a speaker at several international conferences and events, including the World Accounting Summit, the second Middle East Corporate Social Responsibility Summit and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Experts’ Meeting.
Santiago holds a master’s degree from the American University in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nate White, Consultant, Ethical Leadership Group
Nate White joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2004. He co-led the creation of the Integrity Diagnostics tool, Global Compliance’s unique custom report which uses rigorous statistical methods to benchmark company helpline data. He partners with other Ethical Leadership Group consultants to provide analysis and produce Integrity Diagnostics reports across all industries.
He has also done work to evaluate and develop codes of conduct for companies in industries including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and professional services.
Nate serves as co-writer of the Compliance Communicator, Global Compliance’s monthly newsletter. He also has contributed ethics and compliance perspectives to several blogs and penned a number of compliance-related live performance sketches for clients.
Nate also organizes and evaluates Ethical Leadership Group’s International Business Ethics Survey database, an unparalleled source of on ethics and compliance information based on survey responses of hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide. Additionally, he has provided a number of other Expert Advisory services to clients, including the provision of live training, the facilitation of focus groups, and the creation of assessment reports.
In his spare time Nate is a playwright, actor, and director, and is the founder and Artistic Director of Rogue Theater Company in Chicago. Nate holds an honors degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State.
Linda MacMillan, CCEP, Senior Consultant, Ethical Leadership Group
Linda MacMillan joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2011 and brings significant experience in compliance program development and management; implementation of Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) requirements; and training program development and implementation. Linda provides a variety of ethics and compliance program related services to Ethical Leadership Group clients.
Prior to joining Ethical Leadership Group, Linda served as the Director of Compliance at CVS Caremark where she developed and delivered training related to CIA and Consent Order requirements to over 200,000 employees across 7,000 locations; grew the awareness and utilization of the Ethics Helpline; and was responsible for driving an enterprise culture of compliance through awareness, education, and adherence. She also developed and implemented a focused compliance program for Anti-Money Laundering. In addition, during her tenure she headed the IT Training department. Linda’s work has been recognized by International Who’s Who and by Training Magazine through the “Training Top 100” award.
Prior to her tenure at CVS Caremark, Linda was an international consultant for Hewitt Associates and also spent nearly a decade in the HR and Training fields at Baxter Healthcare. She has conducted various types of assessments, focus groups, and facilitated process and systems re-engineering efforts.
Linda completed studies in Organizational Development at DePaul University and is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional