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ABOUT
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Strategies
for Responsible Business Ethics
& Policy Integration Centre,
Washington, D.C.
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As ideas
in management theory
and practice emerge—such as systems
thinking, appreciative inquiry, consilience, deep ecology, knowledge-value,
finding flow, and creative tension—we analyze and synthesize
them with the classical ideas of truth, goodness, beauty, and unity
to develop the ethical foundations of Corporate Responsibility.
We offer a unique, challenging approach to leadership, which applies
time-proven principles to develop the rich organizational culture
required to deal with global challenges. Recent
activities
About
Our Directors
 Kenneth
W. Johnson is a leader and project manager with a wealth
of experience to draw upon, and a strong sense of the importance
of organizational integrity. He has faced these questions in
a challenging career, starting with a tour
of duty in Vietnam. He has since served as an attorney,
small businessman, and management consultant. He has held a
variety of positions at the Ethics Resource Center, Washington,
D.C, inclining senior consultant and principal researcher. He
has worked with military and civilian leaders in Asia, Europe,
and the Middle East. In the Gulf War, Colonel Johnson, USMCR,
served as the Logistic Plans Officer for the First Marine Expeditionary
Force and was the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 of the
Marine Expeditionary Force that liberated Kuwait.
He is principal author of Business
Ethics: A Manual on Managing the Responsible Business Enterprise
in Emerging Market Economies. He consults internationally
on the structures, systems, and strategies of corporate and
program responsibility. He has trained over 20 people from developing
canters under the auspices of the Department of Commerce's Good
Governance program. He is a former Senior Fellow in the ERC
Fellows Program and a frequent contributor to journals and
conferences on issues of ethics and policy. He is admitted to
the State Bars of Arizona and California (currently inactive)
and the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Court in Arizona and is a member
of the National Native American Bar Association, Society
for Business Ethics and the American Evaluation Association.
He holds a
Master of Arts degree in Ethics & Policy Studies. He served
as an associate editor of the newsletter, Ethical Management,
and as a member of the board of advisors of the National
Conference on Applied Ethics and an editor of the Arizona Law
Review. His article, Sovereignty, Citizenship and the Indian,
is frequently cited in works on Indian law. As a member of the
faculty of the University of Phoenix, he has taught ethics, critical
thinking, and change management at the graduate level. A decorated
Native American veteran (Cherokee), he is a subject of the work
American Indian Warriors Today: Native Americans in Modern
U.S. Warfare by J. Boyd Morningstorm, published by the Sunflower
University Press (April 2004).
About
Our Associates
 Kathleen
Purdy works with EPIC on programs providing corporate responsibility
consulting to small to medium enterprise (SMEs). She has been
with the Washington SBDC since 1995 serving the North Olympic
Peninsula. As a business development specialist with the SBDC,
Kathleen is a member of the faculty of Washington State University.
She has over 25 years experience as a consultant, entrepreneur,
and executive for large and small businesses in a variety of industries.
She edited and published the influential newsletter, Ethical
Management.
At the SBDC,
she specializes in confidential business management counseling
, often working with clients on an ongoing basis as a business
coach. Major areas of counseling include: feasibility analysis,
business plan development, sources of financing, marketing, analysis
of current business and development of long-term strategy, buying
or selling a business, turnaround assistance. Kathleen holds a
Master of Arts degree in Economics/Finance from Trinity College
and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University
of Hartford's Barney School of Business.
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