Save the date for Friday, April 10, 2026, when Joanne B. Ciulla, Ph.D., professor and director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University Business School and a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 19th Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership Forum on Saint Mary’s Minneapolis Campus. The event will begin at 11 a.m. with the lunch and keynote from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Ciulla’s research focuses on the ethical challenges of leadership — a topic that matches perfectly with the mission of the Hendrickson Institute and its annual public forum.
Dr. Ciulla has also written extensively on topics in business ethics such as meaningful work, business ethics, international leadership, and the philosophy of work. Before joining Rutgers, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (at the University of Richmond), where she was one of the school’s founders. She also has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and LaSalle University.
Dr. Ciulla has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Society for Business Ethics, the International Leadership Association, and the Network of Leadership Scholars at the Academy of Management. In addition, she is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the field of business ethics from the Society for Business Ethics among many other awards.
She sits on the editorial boards of “The Business Ethics Quarterly,” “The Leadership Quarterly,” and “Leadership” and edits the “New Horizons in Leadership Studies Series” (Edward Elgar), one of the largest collections of books from the humanities and the social sciences on leadership. She has served as president of The Society for Business Ethics and The International Society for Business, Ethics, and Economics. She has been an expert witness, consulted, and given lectures and seminars to business, government, and non-profit organizations worldwide.
CELT will be doing reading groups, featuring her work, on both campuses.
For more information and to register in February, go to smumn.edu/hendricksonforum.
