Corporate Culture

Overview

Insights for Board members on what it takes to manage culture and culture change from a practitioner, academic and Board member/CEO perspective. Program will include how it is more common than we think, what is really required to make culture change and what the Board should focus on.

Venue

Follow the signs to the Conference Center and the parking area for it.  We are meeting in LaCava Room 305 A&B.

Registration

$35 Registration Fee 

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Panelists

Cynthia Clark  Professor, Management Bentley University

Cynthia is the author of two books - Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom and Business & Society: Ethical, Legal and Digital Environments. She regularly conducts training sessions on ethical decision-making, shareholder activism and optimal nominating and governance procedures for senior management teams and boards of directors. Additionally, she is an active member in and frequent speaker for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), 50/50 Women on Boards and the Society for Governance Professionals. She has been widely cited in the media on governance issues including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, CNN, Forbes and Reuters with multiple appearances on Bloomberg Radio and various governance podcasts. Cynthia’s research interests concern ethics and governance issues in organizations with a particular focus on how firms do or do not address conflicts of interest, shareholder activism, privacy breaches and disclosing information. Recently published work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Business Horizons, Strategic Management Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Business & Society. She is the founding director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, an institute dedicated to bridging board of director research with practice. Cynthia serves on the editorial board of the journal, Business & Society. Prior to joining Bentley, Cynthia was a member of the faculty at Boston University, following a career in the banking and securities industry. She holds a PhD from the honors program at Boston University and a Master's degree from Northwestern University.

Anthony O'Reilly Founder O'Reilly Advisors, LLC

Anthony O’Reilly is a qualified audit, risk and compliance Committee member. With a foundation in financial accounting and internal controls, built over an extensive public accounting career including as a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Partner, Anthony has been brought into two major global organizations to help rebuild their legal and public reputations. Anthony has lived and worked in Germany, the UK, and Hong Kong. Anthony has held roles as a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Head of Professional Practices at Siemens, AG and as the first ever Chief Ethics Officer at State Street Corporation, a global ‘too-big-to-fail’ Bank. Anthony is a SWenior Advisor to the Ethics and Compliance Initiative and serves on the Advisory Board of the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics.

Scott Steele Co-Founder, Sr. Advisor JMH Capital

Mr. Steele co-founded JMH Capital in 2003 and assumed his current advisory position with JMH in January 2020. He is currently the Director of Finance and Operations at Beacon Academy. Prior to joining Beacon Academy, Mr. Steele was the CFO/COO at The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, a Boston-based minority-serving technical college founded in 1908. Prior to JMH Capital, Mr. Steele was a Principal and Parthenon Capital in Boston and a Principal in the New York office of Electra Investment Trust PLC, a London-based private investment firm. He started his career in the Leveraged Funding Group at Heller Financial in New York. Scott received his B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

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