EthicalVoices

Sherry Feldberg, a seasoned healthcare communication professional who is now the principal of Leadership Journey, discusses:

1) What to do when your boss asks you to burn bridges?

2) How to speak up effectively when you are asked to compromise your personal ethics

3) The importance of building trusted relationships

4) The need to show vulnerability as a leader

Emmanuel Tchividjian, the principal of the Markus Gabriel Group, and one of the top thought leaders on ethics and communication in the world, discusses:

1) Where your duty lies when you are asked to reveal confidential information

2) The importance of civility and civil discourse

3) How the absence of truth leads to the absence of trust

4) The guiding light of hope

Karen Garnik, the president of Global Vision Marketing and Communications and the president of Asociación de Relacionistas Profesionales de Puerto Rico and a licensed public relations practitioner, discusses a number of important ethics issues including:

1) How apathy is threatening ethical behavior

2) Porque ser Relacionista es cosa seria – Why being a PR pro is a serious thing

3) Licensing and ethics in Puerto Rico

4) How Puerto Rico's Licensing compares to the APR

Krista Terrell, APR, the acting president of the Arts and Science Council for Charlotte Mecklenburg County, discusses a number of important ethics topics, including:

1) The best approach to convince executives to report historic inequities

2) Why ethical organizations need to look back as well as forward

3) How organizations can think beyond their whiteness

4) Why we need to think like gardeners, not gunslingers

Joining me on this week's episode is Jen Cho, the founder of Pivot and Swerve. She discusses a number of important ethics issues, including:

1) Where should businesses start first in diversity initiatives?

2) How to most effectively deal with microaggressions?

3) Ethical issues with Battle Rap – what to do when your ethics and the industry's standards diverge?

4) How far back should we go with regards to cancel culture?

5) The rise of Asian American hate crimes

Donald Singletary, the president at Singletary Group Communications and an adjunct professor at a number of universities, including Syracuse University and Baruch College, discusses:

1) Ethics of expense reports in the Mad Men Era and today

2) How societal changes are impacting ethical practices

3) How rationalization leads to ethical failures

4) Are we really making progress against systemic racism?

Troy Brown, the President of one50one, discusses a number of key ethics issues, including:

1) How to respond when people try to marginalize you

2) The unethical myth of we can't find quality diverse candidates

3) Ethical issues with influencer marketing

4) Ethics of Blockchain and Digital IP

Thomas Bennett III, discusses:

1) What to do when you are stuck in a toxic work culture

2) Why we need more honesty and transparency

Dr. Holly Overton, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and a senior research fellow with the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication discusses:

1) What to do when you are on a toxic team at work

2) The changing landscape of business advocacy and what it means to PR

3) The rise of corporate social advocacy

4) What we can learn from the Page Principles

Cedric F. Brown, APR, an independent consultant who uses digital strategy to produce equitable outcomes, discusses:

1) What to do when you see racist behavior at work

2) Why hiring diverse junior talent isn't enough

3) Why we can't just look forward