Steve Priest, President of ELG, has done ethics consulting in over forty countries for great organizations in most major industries. He is frequently asked to speak before organizations such as the Conference Board, Institute of Internal Auditors, Young Presidents Organization and Ethics Officer Association. He has raised awareness of the importance of ethical behavior on television, newspapers and magazines.

Prior to founding the Ethical Leadership Group in 1993, Steve Priest was executive director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy, a Chicago-based ethics think tank. Steve received his ethics training both in the real world of business and inside the ivy covered walls at Harvard University, 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. Steve Priest has founded, nurtured and sold two businesses. In addition to consulting and speaking, Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. He’s the father of three children, who can’t believe their father gets paid for reminding people to do the right thing.

In 1999, Mary came to Ethical Leadership Group from Caremark, a nationally recognized leader in compliance education and training. There she was Vice President in charge of education and program development for the Compliance and Integrity Department. During her tenure, she developed and executed the Caremark compliance program for more than 800 healthcare facilities across the country and received national recognition for her programs.

Mary is a registered pharmacist by training and has more than twenty years of management, education, and clinical experience earned in several large health care companies, including Baxter and Caremark. Mary has presented, published and consulted nationally and internationally on topics related to compliance programs and health care.

Carrie Penman joined ELG team after three years as Deputy Director and Ethics Officer of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), where she managed the design and delivery of member services including conferences, executive education, benchmarking and research. Prior to joining ECOA, Carrie developed and implemented the Westinghouse Electric ethics and compliance program, which extended to 76,000 employees in diverse business worldwide. As Director of the Corporate Ethics Office, she represented Westinghouse to the ECOA and to the Defense Industry Initiatives on Business Ethics and Conduct.

A scientist by training (Purdue University) Carrie managed the development of Westinghouse’s environmental management programs before heading up the ethics function.

Carrie has been a leader in ethics field since 1994. She has served on the Board of Directors and Executive committee of the ECOA, served on many other Advisory Panels, is an Executive Fellow at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, and is frequent speaker at ethics conferences and events.

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 ethics association 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 Commissions 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, and was a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the United States Olympic Committee.

Dr. Petry has authored several major surveys including the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s National Survey of Ethics and Compliance in Organizations (1995), Sources and Consequences of Workplace Pressure (1997) and Technology and Ethics in the Workplace (1998). He has edited and/or co-authored six books on business ethics, including The Ethical Edge: Tales of Organizations that Have Faced Moral Crises (1996) and The Ethics of Accounting and Finance (1996). He has also published numerous 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 ECOA’s first full-time director, Dr. Petry was a tenured professor of philosophy at Bentley College.

Bill Giffin joined Ethical Leadership Group after retiring from his position as corporate Vice President of Ethics and Business Practices at Sears, Roebuck and Co. This followed more than thirty years with Sears where he held a number of positions including Director of Human Resources for the 300,000 employees Sears Merchandise Group.

The ethics program Bill established at Sears in 1993 is one of the most benchmarked in America. His contributions to the field have been widely recognized. Bill has served as Vice Chair of the Ethics Officer Association and Chair of the DePaul University Board of Business and Professional Ethics.

He is an executive fellow with the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, advisor to the international Caux Round Table and a regular speaker at ethics meetings worldwide.

John has been working with The Setzer Group, a strategic planning firm that offers general management intervention for boards and senior executives interested in achieving superior organizational effectiveness and performance. Prior to establishing The Setzer Group, he was a senior vice president for strategic planning and secretary to the board of Carson Products Company, a global leader in the manufacture and distribution of hair care products for people of color.

John received his formal education at Morehouse College (B.A.) and Harvard University (M.B.A. and M. Div.). He has also held positions in higher education management at Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at Morehouse College. In addition to his current consulting practice, he enjoys counseling college and graduate students, and young professionals, about career preparation and life-long personal development.

Congratulations to Phil, who has left ELG to join Jack in the Box as their General Counsel.

Santiago Zorzopulos Reich joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2005. Prior to joining ELG, Mr. Reich 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, Mr. Reich 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. Mr. Reich 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.

Mr. Reich 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.

Mr. Reich 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

Nancy Heebsh joined the ELG team in 2007, after retiring from her position as Manager of Business Integrity from Marathon Oil Corporation. In her role as manager, she provided the day-to-day guidance for Marathon’s ethics and compliance program for over 12,000 employees. With the creation of the office in 2001, Nancy was instrumental in the development and implementation of several initiatives, which included an employee-written compliance and values-based Code of Business Conduct, along with numerous on-going internal and external communication and training programs.

Prior to launching the ethics program at Marathon, Nancy coordinated the Control Self Assessment process within the Company’s Internal Audit department and managed the Marathon Facilitator group, as well as having facilitated over sixty workshops for different areas within Marathon.

Nancy has been an active member of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association and the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program. As part of her activities, Nancy has presented at several national ethics conferences, taught several college-level ethics classes, and has served as a guest member on various external panels for ethics discussion.

Leigh-Anne Walker joined the Ethical Leadership Group in 2008 after serving in senior roles in the financial services sector for nearly 20 years, with experience as both a business manager (CEO) and CFO for business units of JPMorganChase.

Leigh-Anne is currently a candidate for a Masters degree with a concentration in Ethics at Yale Divinity School.  At the Ethical Leadership Group, Leigh-Anne applies her advanced ethics studies to the complex regulatory and cultural environment of banking and financial services.

Leigh-Anne received her MBA (Finance) and BA from Dartmouth College.

Ron Hubble joined Ethical Leadership Group after retiring from Sara Lee Corporation as corporate Vice President of Internal Audit and Business Practices Officer. This followed more than 26 years with Sara Lee where he held a number of positions in audit and finance. As the Chief Audit Executive for Sara Lee since 1987, he orchestrated the collective work of 60 auditors throughout the world.

In 1997 Ron led the development and implementation of Sara Lee’s Global Business Practices Program. The program reaches over 140,000 employees in more than 40 countries where Sara Lee has operations, and has become one of the world’s most benchmarked ethics programs.

Ron earned a BS from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Wake Forest University, and is a Certified Internal Auditor. His affiliations have included The Institute of Internal Auditors, The Conference Board General Auditors Council, and the Ethics Officer Association.