What Are Your Personal Core Values?

What Are Your Personal Core Values? What are your personal core values? On the last day of 2017, former FBI director, James Comey, sent out a message loud and clear on Twitter – hoping for more …

4 Ethical Principles a Rubik’s Cube Can Teach Us

About a month ago, my thirteen-year old son asked me for a Rubik’s cube.  Within a few days, he taught himself how to master the 3 x 3 standard size Cube of Rubik.  Since then, he has become skill…

5 Key Traits Leaders Possess to Advance Ethical Leadership

Last week, I was invited to speak on a panel at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s event in New York City titled “The Psychology of Culture: Why Good People do Bad Things and the Role of Corporate Cult…

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Shifting the Ethics Paradigm

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Shifting the Ethics Paradigm During the past few weeks, I have reflected on my years as an investment banking financial analyst in New York City fresh out of colleg…

Living a Life of Gratitude: The Ethics of Giving Back

Living a Life of Gratitude: The Ethics of Giving Back As we welcome another holiday season, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for all that is around me. It has been more than a year and a half since I s…

When Facing an Ethical Dilemma, Don’t Play Your Way Off Life’s Court

When Facing an Ethical Dilemma, Don’t Play Your Way Off Life’s Court On a multitude of concrete courts across our country, little boys and girls learn to dribble, shoot, rebound, and pass …

Examining Corporations: Moody’s Breach of Fiduciary Duty

Examining Corporations: Moody’s Breach of Fiduciary Duty I have spent countless hours pondering my fiduciary duty as a lawyer that I ultimately failed to uphold during 2007-2009, the time in whi…

Why Professional Ethics Training Should Include Behavioral Ethics

Why Professional Ethics Training Should Include Behavioral Ethics Over the last 20 months, I have been released from Federal Prison; been reunited with my children, family, and friends; meditated and …

Are You Practicing Ethical Digital Citizenship?

Are You Practicing Ethical Digital Citizenship? Last week, I attended a talk by Richard Guerry, the founder of Institute for Responsible Online and Cellphone Communication (IROC2), at my son’s middl…

Do Corporations’ Fiduciary Duties Impact Their Bottom Line?

Do Corporations’ Fiduciary Duties Impact Their Bottom Line? I have spent many hours engaging in conversation with those in academia, corporations, non-profits, and in government about corporate cult…