The Demand for Ethical Leadership and How HR Should Respond
In recent years, customers, consumers, and employees alike have made it clear that ethical leadership is a nonnegotiable factor in their decision to engage in business and employment. However, how might HR professional go about imbedding principles of ethical leadership into business and hiring?
Join us today to hear how leaders from the boardroom, C-suite and academia are addressing society’s demand for ethical leadership. Learn how companies are identifying leaders who have demonstrated a values-based approach to leadership; boards are safeguarding against fraud and scandal, and business schools are preparing their students to become the next generation of ethical leaders.
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Marna C. Whittington
Marna C. Whittington, PhD, serves on the board of directors of Phillips 66, where she is chair of the human resources and compensation committee and serves on the nominating and governance, public policy and sustainability, and executive committees. She has been a director at Oaktree Capital since June 2012, and she is on the board of directors of Macy’s, Inc.
Marna was chief executive officer of Allianz Global Investors Capital, a diversified global investment firm, from 2002 until her retirement in January 2012. She was chief operating officer of parent company Allianz Global Investors from 2001 to 2011. Prior to that, she was managing director and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Marna started in the investment management industry in 1992, joining Philadelphia-based Miller Anderson & Sherrerd. She was executive vice president and CFO of the University of Pennsylvania and, earlier, secretary of finance for the state of Delaware.
Marna earned a PhD and master’s degree in quantitative methods from the University of Pittsburgh, and received her bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Delaware.
Prashant Malaviya
Prashant Malaviya, Senior Associate Dean for MBA Programs and Professor of Marketing, came to Georgetown in 2008 after nine years at INSEAD, France. Prior to INSEAD, he held an appointment at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and visiting professorships at the Wharton School, as the Titan Industries Professor at ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens, Greece, and at the Kellogg School of Management.
In 2012, Malaviya led the school's efforts to revise the MBA curriculum, resulting in a program with greater rigor, an integrated approach that combines disciplines and themes, a deeper emphasis on global business, and a stronger connection to the values of principled leadership and service that are the hallmarks of a Georgetown education. He also has served as the Marketing Area Coordinator.
A consumer psychologist by training, Malaviya's research focuses on understanding how consumers use information to make product judgments and consumption decisions and has been published in leading marketing journals including, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Psychology & Marketing. He has taught courses to Executives, MBA, and Undergraduate students on marketing management, marketing strategy, brand management, customer focus, consumer behavior, and related topics.
He was awarded the Emerald Citation of Excellence for publishing “one of the top 50 management articles in 2007,” was named as the “Next Generation Business Thought Leader” by John Wiley & Sons, was a finalist for the Best MBA Core Teacher award at INSEAD, was named the Best MBA Core Module Teacher at MSB, was named "Outstanding Reviewer" by the Journal of Consumer Research, and received the Dean's Service award in 2012 for his successful effort in the MBA curriculum overhaul. He currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Prior to entering the world of academia (and consumers), Malaviya worked in India as an engineer at Tata Motors and as a marketing and sales analyst at Nestlé.
Malaviya holds a Ph.D. in Marketing, with a minor in Social Psychology, from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University, an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and a bachelor of technology degree in metallurgical engineering from IIT BHU, Varanasi.
Tamla Oates-Forney
Since December 2018, Tamla Oates-Forney has served as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer of Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WM). She drives an innovative, people-first strategy focused on making the company of nearly 50,000 employees an employer of choice and a great place to work.
Reporting directly to the CEO, Mrs. Oates-Forney uses her significant human resources expertise to oversee people operations, employee relations, labor relations, HR technology and information systems, total rewards, culture, leadership development and total talent management. She also actively works with WM’s board of directors, specifically on the Management Development & Compensation Committee. Additionally, she is the innovator and operational architect behind some of WM’s award-winning signature programs like Share the GreenSM – a Diversity Supplier Program; Innovative Employment Pathways - a purpose-driven employment program for the overlooked and underserved populations; and Your Tomorrow - a debt-free education benefit for employees and their dependents.
Mrs. Oates-Forney is an Independent Director for Summit Materials and a member of their Human Capital and Compensation Committee. She also served on the Advisory Board of the University of Houston Master’s in Human Resources Development Program (2019-2020); a member of i4CP’s CHRO board, and a founding advisory board member of Black Women on Boards.
Prior to Waste Management, Mrs. Oates-Forney was a 20-year veteran of General Electric (NYSE: GE) where she progressed through a series of human resources leadership roles of increasing levels of responsibility and impact in organization & talent development, diversity and inclusion, organizational transformation, and emerging markets. She received the Chairman Award for her efforts as the HR leader for GE Africa.
Mrs. Oates Forney is a highly influential and accomplished businesswoman and has been awarded numerous honors including: The Network Journal’s 25 Influential Black Women in Business, named to Savoy’s Most Influential Black Corporate Directors (2021) and Top 100 Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America (2020), the Larry V. Green Advocate of the Year Award by the Greater Houston Black Chamber of Commerce, and the Corporate Achievement Awardee from the Houston Chapter of NBMBAA.
She is a recognized thought leader and has been featured by the New York Times, CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine and HR Magazine just to name a few.
Mrs. Oates-Forney holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She is also a notable philanthropist and investor in women and girls of color.
Mark Rosica
Mark Rosica has attended the William G. McGowan board since its inception in 1993 and served as a trustee of the Board since 2004. Mark is a member of the finance and McGowan Fellows committees.
As a trained Marriage and Family Therapist and Career Counselor, Mark has a unique background where he has extensive experience creating career development and training programs, intervening and resolving interpersonal conflicts, working with adolescents and their families on life cycle issues, while also overseeing high-level managerial human resources.
Mark is a recently retired associate professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology after 40 years of serving in a variety of administrative and faculty roles. Mark’s leadership positions at RIT included Associate Dean of Student and Academic Services, Chair of Counseling and Academic Advising Services, and Director of the Career Exploration Program, where he also was involved in a wide range of HR responsibilities.
In his academic work, Mark was also a research faculty of the Center for Education Research Partnerships at RIT, an advisor/counselor helping bachelor level students enter PhD research programs, and an Institute Mediator for the Center for Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution.
Today, Mark consults with schools for deaf and hard of hearing programs across the country in best practices. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology at State University of New York at Oswego, studied Higher Education Administration in the Ed.D program at the University of Rochester and received his MS in rehabilitation counseling at Syracuse University.