ÜBERJUDGES

Our “überjudges” are a select group of professionals who are the core of IBECC. Each has served with us a number of years. Their unique combination of expertise in ethics and the ability to give teams professional feedback in a nonthreatening fashion provides students with a rich educational experience.

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Dr. Jim Arnold has been with IBECC since 2006. He was a management professor at the Opus College of Business at the University of Saint Thomas in Minneapolis for 19 years. He was a founding faculty member of St. Thomas’ full-time MBA program where he taught courses including business communication with an ethical focus. During his career, he has also owned two businesses and worked in both large and small corporations. He also coached many students and many teams for national and international case competitions.

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Ken Goodpaster is the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics Emeritus at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas (MN). He taught philosophy at the University of Notre Dame during the 1970s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980 and St. Thomas in 1990. His relationship with IBECC began in 2006.

His book Conscience and Corporate Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) received generous praise from reviewers and he contributed to Vocation of the Business Leader, issued by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2012) and Respect in Action: Applying Subsidiarity in Business (UST Center for Catholic Studies, 2015).

Goodpaster served for a number of years as an Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and was Executive Editor of Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2012) which received the 2014 Academy of Management Best Book Award. In 2014, he was named to Ethisphere Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics—and was honored by the Society for Business Ethics for a “Career of Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in the Field of Business Ethics.” Goodpaster’s most recent book, Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good (Springer 2022) is available open access at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-09712-6.

Click here for Professor Goodpaster’s CV.

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Following Navy nuclear-power training, Kevin Harrington spent four years on submarines and made five deployments. He has since worked in various technical / project management and leadership roles across four industries. He has considerable international experience. He now works for Now for Becton-Dickinson’s (BD) Urology & Critical Care business – part of BD Interventional – located in Atlanta, GA. His career achievements include four patents and three trade secrets.  He has been with IBECC since 2002.

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Hon. Ruth B. Kraft is an employment and labor law partner as well as chair of the employment law group of Vigorito, Barker, Patterson, Nichols & Porter. She began her career as an associate at one of the most distinguished law firms in the country prior to joining the faculty of New York University, where she was recognized for excellence in the teaching of law, business ethics and medicine. She subsequently rose the bench, most recently at the New York State Department of Labor, with chambers in Kings County. In 2018, Judge Kraft was recognized as a “Power Woman in Business” on Long Island.  In 2019, she will have the distinct honor of receiving the Hon. Paul J. Wilditz Judicial Award from the Jewish Lawyers of Nassau County in recognition of her achievements while on the bench. Judge Kraft joined IBECC in 2003.

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Tim Mazur’s career as a business ethicist has spanned 32 years. During that time, he’s held multiple leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies, professional associations, nonprofit ethics centers, and universities. Most recently, Tim was lead senior ethics and compliance officer at United Technologies Corporation, where he was responsible for leading the Ethics and Compliance program for the 11,500 employees of Pratt & Whitney’s Operations organization. Tim is also the treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Society for Business Ethics, the global professional association for business ethics scholars and professors. He has also served as Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming’s College of Business.

Tim’s relationship with IBECC began in his role as the chief operating officer of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), the world’s leading professional association for ethics and compliance officers and their staffs. In 2008 he invited us to hold IBECC in conjunction with the ECOA’s annual meeting, a practice we continued through 2015.

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Named a “Top 100 Thought Leader” by Trust Across America, Gael O’Brien is an award-winning communicator and seasoned executive, culture and speech coach, professional speaker, and leadership columnist. She founded Strategic Opportunities Group and has worked with companies, professional service firms, entrepreneurs, The Conference Board, RAND’s Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance, The Ethics Officers Association (now ECI) and Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship; taught business ethics and coached clients in several fields. She publishes The Week in Ethics blog, is a columnist for Business Ethics Magazine and was the Ethics Coach columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. She is an advisory board member of Bentley’s Hoffman Center for Business Ethics and a senior fellow at Babson’s Institute for Social Innovation.  She joined IBECC in 2010. 

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Maria Sonin is currently Ethics Program Manager, BAE Systems ES. Previously, she worked at the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association and Compliance Week. She has been associated with IBECC since 2008.