John W. Dienhart

The Frank Shrontz Chair for Professional Ethics, Seattle University
Director, Northwest Ethics Network
Director, Center for Business Ethics at Albers

Invited Fellow, Ethics Resource Center

206-296-5714
dienharj@seattleu.edu 

John Dienhart is the Frank Shrontz Chair for Professional Ethics and Professor of Management at Seattle University. He is the Director of the Northwest Ethics Network, an independent group of ethics and compliance officers from the business, nonprofit, and governmental sectors; Director of the Center for Business Ethics at Albers, a program of Seattle University that inspires ethical business cultures; and an Invited Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C. He consults with and does ethics training for Bonneville Power Administration, Costco, Holland America Line, Microsoft, Premera, Russell Investment Group, and Weyerhaeuser.

Prof. Dienhart has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He is a past President of the Society for Business Ethics. The Society is an international group of philosophers, economists, legal theorists, and business people devoted to the study and communication of business ethics and its role in leadership. He has worked in the area of business ethics since 1980.

His comments on business ethics have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle PI.

Prof. Dienhart has published four books, several articles, and made many presentations on ethics and leadership in business. His latest article, “The Ethical Commitment to Compliance: Building Value-Based Cultures” is in the California Management Review (Winter 2008). It is co-authored with Tom Tyler of New York University and Terry Thomas, Vice-President of Ethics and Business Conduct at Premera. His current research focuses on the intersection of ethical decision making, leadership, CSR, and sustainability.

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