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.

Some Members of the ERC Fellows Program Include:

Mirijam BakkerAEGON Insurance Group Anne Harris
General Dynamics
Steve Prosser
Starbucks Coffee Company
Marty Barrington
Altria
Maria HermidaCitigroup, Inc. Kathryn Reimann
Citigroup, Inc.
Gwyn Blanton
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
Gary HillWal-Mart Paul L. Robert, Esq.United Technologies Corporation
Terri BourneShell Oil Company Jon Hoak
Hewlett Packard
Scott Roney
Archer Daniels Midland
George BrenkertGeorgetown University W. Michael Hoffman, Ph.D.
Center for Business Ethics
Alfred Rosa
General Electric
Earnie BroughtonUSAA Jeffrey HoopsErnst & Young, LLP Charles Ruthford
The Boeing Company
Jude Curtis
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Kim Ingham
Merck & Co., Inc.
Timothy Schultz
Raytheon Company
Robert CusickU.S. Office of Government Ethics Stephen I. Kasloff, Esq.
Guardsmark, LLC
Bill Senhauser
Fannie Mae
Erica DesrosiersPepsiCo, Inc. Barbara KurykBP Debra Shapiro
Robert H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland
John DienhartSeattle University Trevor LangsdaleAmerican Express Leonard Shen
American Express
Kelly DolsonErnst & Young, LLP William Lenox
SEC
Margaret SperryMassachusetts Mutual Life
Alice Eldridge
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Melinda LoftinU.S. Dept of the Interior Allen Stewart
Duke Energy
Patricia J. Ellis
Raytheon Company
Elizabeth Lyle
Merck & Co., Inc.
Philip Tenney
Lockheed Martin Corporation
John Esquivel
Shell Oil Company
Thomas McCormick
Dow Chemical Company
Nancy Thomas-Moore
Weyerhaeuser
Sandra Evers-Manly
Northrop Grumman
Claudia Minor
Marathon Oil Corporation
Linda K. Trevino, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
Paul Fiorelli
Xavier University
Maureen Mohlenkamp
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
Tom Tyler
New York University
Patricia Ford
The Boeing Company
Julie Murray
Wal-Mart
Jacqueline WagnerPricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
Matthew FrankFannie Mae Kenneth MyerGeneral Electric Jeanne Young
Hewlett Packard
Joseph Gangloff
U.S. Office of Government Ethics
Caitlin O'BrienVeterans Health Administration Susan ZohnErnst & Young, LLP
Patrick Gnazzo
CA
Matthew PachmanFreddie Mac  
Larry Goldberg
U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
Barbara Petitti
General Dynamics
 
Barbara Hannigan
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Sam Piazza
Hewlett Packard