Leadership Crises in Silicon Valley: A Way Forward

Silicon Valley life presents significant challenges to individual and organizational leadership. In this working lunch, Kirk Hanson, Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University will reflect on the ten most significant challenges facing Silicon Valley leaders today and consider how resources within the Ignatian tradition might provide an innovative, transformative way forward.

Co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Kirk O. Hanson is executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics. The Center has extensive programs in business ethics, bioethics, government ethics, internet ethics and character education, and works closely with groups of business corporations, hospitals, city councils and school districts on professional ethics.

Ann Skeet is the Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University,  a new position that directs the Center’s work in business ethics and a future program in nonprofit ethics.

Please RSVP at www.scu.edu/ic/bannan

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About the Bannan Institute
Bannan Institutes are yearlong, thematic programs hosted by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara University. All events are free and open to the public. Please RSVP at www.scu.edu/ic/bannan

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