Workshop A12

Integrity Risk

- what it means and how to manage it

   
Workshop synopsis

This workshop will help delegates understand that risk is fundamentally human. Integrity is personal. Corporate integrity is ultimately no more and no less than the sum of its individual parts. The workshop will offer delegates the opportunity to try a new integrity test; and learn a basic model for resolving ethical dilemmas, which will be applied to a real-world scenario.

   
Main topics

- Integrity is personal, not corporate

- Model for resolving ethical dilemmas

- Free integrity test for delegates

   
Background

Roger Steare is an Occupational Philosopher and co-author of “Integrity in Practice”, a paper commissioned by the FSA to develop thought leadership in business ethics. He has also written papers for a number of business journals such as Financial News, The Actuary and Personnel Today; a chapter on integrity for a new Compliance Handbook; and is currently writing a book on personal integrity for FT Prentice Hall due for publication in 2005. He has recently published the “Integrity in Practice Survey” which has analysed “best” practice within 15 leading financial firms, describing a credibility gap between the rhetoric of integrity and the reality of business practice.

Roger is currently developing and delivering Principled Leadership, Learning and Development programmes and a new “integrity test” to a number of leading firms and professional bodies including the Institute of Directors and the Institute for Financial Studies.

Roger was born in 1958 in West Sussex. The son of a Methodist minister, Roger was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He read History at London University and studied the History of Philosophy with Earl Russell, the Liberal peer and son of the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

He draws on a wide range of professional experience as a banker, a social worker, an employment consultant and CEO of a UK subsidiary of a Swiss-quoted business services group.

For further details, please visit www.rogersteare.com

   
Qualifications

BA (Hons) Frec MInstD