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Values-Based Leadership Consortium

Equip your executives to be more effective values-driven leaders

This research-based program uses ethics and compliance as its focal point to enable participants to create lasting change within their corporations. Leaders are sensitized to the benefits of promoting an ethical organization that goes beyond compulsory adherence to laws and regulations; an organization that instead instills cultural values such as respect, trust, honesty, and fairness through leadership teams engaged across organizations who model these values. The result is a stronger, more sustainable culture that attracts and retains top talent, mitigates risk, and contributes to the organization’s sustained success.

The Kelley School of Business Values-Based Leadership Consortium is research-driven and grounded in evidence-based outcomes. It offers:

  • Personal leadership and communications models and training that draw on academic thought leadership and corporate best practices
  • A forum for enabling executives to understand the origins, risks, and debilitating impacts of deficiencies in culture and leadership, and the upside potential from their exemplary behavior
  • Training and tools to ensure they and their leadership teams effectively model ethics and compliance
  • Ongoing, individualized coaching and expert mentoring for leaders intent on moving to a trust-driven leadership model within their firms

Format: 12-week blended format:

  • 10 weeks online
  • 2 weeks in residence on the Bloomington, IN campus (one week at the beginning and one week at the end of the program)

Date: TBD

Apply: Contact Kim Goad, Director of Business Development, at kimgoad@iu.edu or 812-856-5886.

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Participant profile

The consortium represents diverse and non-competing industries. Program participation is best suited for leaders at the executive vice president or senior vice president level. Those at the vice president level will also be considered. Members are encouraged to send at least one executive from an operations function, such as sales, purchasing, marketing, or strategy, and one from an internal services function, such as legal, compliance, finance, audit, or HR. Participating executives should be interested in becoming more effective values-based leaders and change agents within their companies.

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See if we’re a fit

Companies are welcome to explore the effectiveness of this consortium on a test basis, with the agreement of the member firms, without making a commitment to join as a contributing member of the consortium.

To learn more about participating on a test basis, please contact Kim Goad, Director of Business Development, at kimgoad@iu.edu or 812-856-5886.

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When you strengthen your executives’ leadership approach regarding values and ethics, you strengthen your organization by improving the overall culture.

Values-Based Leadership Consortium

Format: 12-week blended format:

  • 10 weeks online
  • 2 weeks in residence on the Bloomington, IN campus (one week at the beginning and one week at the end of the program) 

Date: TBD

Apply: Contact Kim Goad, Director of Business Development, at kimgoad@iu.edu or 812-856-5886.

Meet the instructors

Tim Fort

Timothy L. Fort, PhD and JD, holds the Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics and is a professor of business law and ethics at the Kelley School of Business.

Fort has written nearly 80 articles and 15 books including two winners of the Best Book Award from the Academy of Management for Social Issues: The Diplomat in the Corner Office (2016) and The Sincerity Edge (2017), co-authored with Countess Alexandra of Frederiksborg. He has won 12 research awards from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Society of Business Ethics, and the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of the flagship journals for each of these associations. He has also won five teaching awards and served as director of an institute, department chair, and interim associate dean.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the Kelley Executive Education Foundation and served for two years on the regional advisory board of Old National Bank.

Todd Haugh

Todd Haugh, JD, is one of the top scholars in the field of business ethics today. Formerly a U.S. Supreme Court fellow, Haugh practiced criminal defense law in Chicago prior to coming to the Kelley School in 2014. Since then, he has published award-winning articles in  top law journals, advises Fortune 500 companies on behavioral ethics and compliance initiatives, and is regularly quoted in the business and legal press. He currently is an assistant professor of business law and ethics and a board member of the Pointer Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.

Jeff Thinnes

Jeffrey A. Thinnes is CEO of JTI, Inc., which he co-founded in 1999. A graduate of the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, he focuses on four areas in which he has much experience: business expansion and restructuring, ethics and compliance, corporate communications, and public sector engagement. His team is based in Washington, D.C., but the consulting firm draws on expertise from a network that spans the US and world.

Thinnes has advised some of the world’s largest companies on their ethics and compliance programs and delivered large-scale in-person training and one-on-one coaching sessions for executives around the world. His global business experience is extensive, with senior leadership positions at such firms as the Aspen Institute and Daimler-Benz, and he has founded several non-profits.

Brenda Bailey-Hughes

Brenda Bailey-Hughes, MA, is an award-winning faculty member at the Kelley School of Business. She’s been teaching business communication and leadership courses since 2001 when she joined the Kelley School. Brenda teaches in the top-ranked Bloomington undergraduate program, the Kelley Direct graduate program, and Kelley Executive Education.

Prior to joining the Kelley School, Brenda spent nearly a decade in human resources specializing in managerial training, mediation, and organizational development. She is a sought after speaker and coach who frequently presents at conferences on over a dozen topics including influence, powerful presentations, leadership through the lens of emotional intelligence, customer service, and change strategies for personal growth. She is an author of nine Lynda.com/LinkedIn classes on various communication topics.

Ray Luther

Ray Luther, PCC, is the Executive Director of the Partnership for Coaching Excellence and Personal Leadership at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Full-Time MBA program at Kelley. Ray is also the Co-Director of the Kelley Consumer Marketing Academy, and is a Founder and Co-Director of the Kelley MBA Leadership Academy.

Ray’s work experience spans a 20+ year career with executive team leadership, strategy, branding, market research, innovation, change management, and operations. Prior to his time at Kelley, Ray worked at Procter & Gamble as a Director in the Health Care Business Unit across the Pharmaceutical and OTC medicine categories. Ray served as a U.S. Army Officer in the 3rd Infantry Division where he was in line roles as a Platoon Leader and Company Executive Officer in the Medical Service Corps.

Ray was a lead designer and founding member of the Kelley MBA Me, Inc. career management course and has personally coached hundreds of students while at Kelley. He coaches MBA students on the practice of leadership, strategic visioning and coaching others for high performance. Ray teaches Leadership Coaching through Executive Education to a number of corporate clients. He has also developed and taught leadership courses along with leadership coaching to a number of corporate clients, including Cummins, OneAmerica, and the NFL Players Association, among others.

Ray holds a BS and MBA from Indiana University, was a Distinguished Military Graduate, and is also a Certified Hudson Institute Coach.

This program uses the award-winning platform that has earned the Kelley School the #1 ranking for online MBA (U.S. News & World Report, 2019). Leading Kelley faculty members design and deliver modules that incorporate a variety of learning methodologies, including lectures, case study discussions, small group discussions, experiential learning, and guest lecturers from business, sports, arts and entertainment.

Session topics include:

  • Values-based leadership
  • Getting from “your” to “my” responsibility
  • Effective communication
  • Behavioral ethics and nudges
  • Applying values-based leadership principles to the ethics and compliance risk

Participants will learn how to:

  • Develop and reinforce the values of self-reflection, vulnerability, empathetic communications, and trust as core leadership qualities
  • Understand their own decision-making and the decision making of their teams, providing a window into how ethical decisions are made and translate into desired behavior
  • Build understanding of the risk-related imperative and oft-overlooked strategic value of getting beyond ethics and compliance to a culture of integrity
  • Role model ethics and compliance as a critical success factor for individual and company leadership
  • Work within a holistic coaching framework based on a model of group collaboration and self-realization that equips the leaders with the ability to be more effective change agents who inspire an integrity mindset across the organization

It’s rare that you see the depth of experience that the Kelley Executive Education team brings to a consortium program. As they launch their new program on values-based leadership, I’m sure they will again focus clearly on client needs while bringing the innovative thinking of their faculty to participants’ learning experiences.

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TBD. The fee includes the following:

  • Board participation
  • Tuition and materials
  • Lodging for in-residence weeks
  • Most in-residence week meals
  • Parking & return airport shuttle for both in-residence weeks

Contact Kim Goad at kimgoad@iu.edu or 812-856-5886 to register. Applications are due six weeks prior to the start of the program.

After you register, you will receive additional information about the assessment and modules along with any course materials you might need.

Once enrolled in this course, you are not considered a student of Indiana University.

Completion of the course does not qualify as credit toward any IU program, nor does it qualify you as an alumnus of Indiana University or the Kelley School of Business.

Contact us

For questions about this program, please contact Kim Goad, Director of Business Development, at kimgoad@iu.edu or 812-856-5886.

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