Announcement of First-Ever “Ethical Leader of the Year Award”

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ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management), in partnership with The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, a family foundation dedicated to furthering the compassionate philanthropy and the ethical leadership of William G. McGowan, is pleased to announce the first
“The key to building a strong culture within an organization is ensuring that ethics are defined, understood and practiced in the workplace” > > Tweet this Twelve years ago, the McGowan Fund’s Board made a new commitment to ethical leadership by launching the McGowan Fellows Program, dedicated to including its “Principles of Ethical Leadership” in MBA and other leadership programs, in concert with 10 of the nation’s leading universities.
The success of that program in the eyes of the students and participating institutions and the focus on ethical leadership during this time of crisis in America, has led the McGowan Fund to create the Ethical Leader of the Year Award, to be presented for the first time this year.
“I am pleased to be a judge on the committee for the Ethical Leader of the Year Award, and to recognize a CEO at SHRM22 who is causing the effect we wish to see in the workplace by going above and beyond to establish a high bar of ethics within their leadership and their organization.”