Robert’s Keynotes
There’s nothing cookie cutter about your organization
Robert writes and speaks extensively across business ethics, compliance, and governance
Tell him your top-of-mind issue
He will make it his own—
And deliver a keynote that’s engaging, informative, and fun
Marcus McDaniel
Finding Ethics in an Overcrowded Lifeboat
Audiences love interactively discovering the basic frameworks that drive ethical business conduct
From a list of 10 passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat, the audience must choose four people to throw overboard – and explain why
Participants gain knowledge and confidence in applying the frameworks that drive ethical decisions
Ndidi Uzo-Ojimadu
"You Deal, You Die," the Godfather and Warren Buffett on Reputation
Many people dismiss business ethics as a crunchy-toasty topic of small practical relevance. “The real world,” they say, “is pure Machiavelli: dog eat dog”
Robert rebuts this argument by comparing the world’s most feared mobster, Carlo Gambino, and its most successful investor, Warren Buffett
Audience members gain insight into why, in Buffett’s words, businesses “cannot afford to lose…even a shred of reputation,” as well as what reputation-guarding rules owners and managers must set for all employees
Warren Buffett
Social Value’s Rewards & Pitfalls: ESG & DEI
Corporate Social Value has become a key component of performance and reputation management
With heightened expectations come both opportunity and risk
How can you and your company scoop up the rewards while skirting the pitfalls?
Participant
Culture: The Acid Test of Leadership
How can your organization tap into “the ultimate energy available on this planet” ?
The answer is culture
Successful cultures make employees feel that doing a good job is about more than a paycheck: it’s about expressing who they are as individuals
It’s about building and enjoying self-esteem
The keynote reveals the tools and rules great leaders deploy to build great organizations
Mark Enyedy
The Ethical Business and Other Fantastic Beasts
Robert challenges the audience with the simplest — and hardest to answer — questions of business ethics:
- Can a business entity be ethical?
- What should we demand of business owners, directors, and managers?
- Whose business is it, anyway?
Insights strip away the posturing and platitudes that typify most ethics presentations
Participants come away with the tools and rules for making and implementing ethically sound decisions
Heidi-Marie Weeast
Keynotes Made to Order
There’s nothing cookie cutter about your organization
Robert writes and speaks extensively across business ethics, compliance, and governance
Tell him your top-of-mind issue
He will make it his own —
And deliver a keynote that’s engaging, informative, and fun
John Howell
Social proof beats promises!
- SENIOR LEADERS & EXPERTS
- EVENT PARTICIPANTS
Melissa Di Donato
CEO, SUSE
Bill Canfield
Former CEO of TALX Corp.
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
John Schilling, MD
Partner, TPG Capital
Ernest L. Greer
Co-President, Greenberg Traurig
Angela Dorn
Partner, Partner, Hochschild, Bloom & Company LLP
Amos Gelb
Executive Director, Washington Media Institute
Prof. Edward J. Zajac
Kellogg School of Management
John M. Howell
VP, CX & Marketing, Centene
Prof. Lisa Bernstein
University of Chicago Law School
Mark Militello
APAC Head of Markets and Collateral, Bank of New York Mellon
Marcus A. McDaniel
VP & Deputy General Counsel, Terminix
Mark Enyedy
CEO, Immunogen
Mark Sherman
Managing Director, Telstra Ventures
Yukiko Murata
Sr. Sourcing Manager, Deutsche Bank
Mark A. Menghini
SVP & General Counsel, Aegion
Mark Arian
CEO, Korn Ferry Consulting
Prof. David A. Lander
St. Louis University School of Law
Prof. MAK Yuen Teen
National University of Singapore
Steve Hellman
Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Heidi-Marie Weeast
NJM Insurance Group
Renee Suby
U.S. Bank
Alex Lim
Blacklist Games
Brenda Cox
United Bankshares
Ndidi Uzo-Ojimadu
Instructor, Univ. of Calgary School of Business
Jeffrey Hoskins
United Bankshares, Inc.
Lisa Holloway
ProfitLinq
Peter McParlane
Jefferson Wells
Jessica Kramer
Caterpillar
Joanne Macdonald
PWC
Justin Tully
Goettl AC & Plumbing
Mary Beth Wert
VITA / AARP
Morena Chui
Pembina
Mark Scheiwer
Scotts Miracle-Gro
Joseph Wagner
Lowell Observatory
Colleen Bantz
McKonly & Asbury
Andrew Scherping
Energizer
Marcelle Best
Sagicor Finance
Latiff Chagpar, CPA
Small Business Consultants
Juvy Shoopman
Arizona State University
Susan Von Stein
Intuit
Jim Baker
Northland Cathedral
Janice Beck
Tax Preparer
Jack Blumenthal
JE Blumenthal, CPA
Laurie Brown
Charlotte County Sheriffs Office
Sheila Browne-Simpson
Humber-Self
Anh Du
Direct Energy
Marie McLucas
Primax Properties
Sonya Miller
Jefferson County Public Schools
Anthony Paone
Self Employed
Nancy Gillies
HR Block
Catherine Grattan
St. Clair County Community Mental Health
Donna Gould
Crystal Mountain Products
Andrea Griffitts
ORNL FCU
Amber Hannon
Columbia Sussex
Beverly Jones
The Harvey Salt Company
Ronald Kircher
Winkel, Parker & Foster CPAS
Roxanne Neal
Simplicity Group Holdings
Denise Kovatch
Tax Pros & Accounting Services
Rita Leung
Rita Leung CPA
Paul Schneider
Park Forest Group
Sheila Simmons-Semana
Sheila Simmons-Semana
Robert Slowik
Robert A Slowik PA EA CFP
Suzanne Vahratian
Horizon Global
Susan Walz
State of Minnesota
David Wilkins
Wolverine Business Solutions, LLC
Merle Woods
HR Block
Janine Whited
Janine Whited CPA
Lisa Seemann
DRB Group
Social proof beats promises!
- SENIOR LEADERS & EXPERTS
- EVENT PARTICIPANTS
Melissa Di Donato
CEO, SUSE
Bill Canfield
Former CEO of TALX Corp.
Warren Buffett
Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
John Schilling, MD
Partner, TPG Capital
Ernest L. Greer
Co-President, Greenberg Traurig
Angela Dorn
Partner, Partner, Hochschild, Bloom & Company LLP
Amos Gelb
Executive Director, Washington Media Institute
Prof. Edward J. Zajac
Kellogg School of Management
John M. Howell
VP, CX & Marketing, Centene
Prof. Lisa Bernstein
University of Chicago Law School
Mark Militello
APAC Head of Markets and Collateral, Bank of New York Mellon
Marcus A. McDaniel
VP & Deputy General Counsel, Terminix
Mark Enyedy
CEO, Immunogen
Mark Sherman
Managing Director, Telstra Ventures
Yukiko Murata
Sr. Sourcing Manager, Deutsche Bank
Mark A. Menghini
SVP & General Counsel, Aegion
Mark Arian
CEO, Korn Ferry Consulting
Prof. David A. Lander
St. Louis University School of Law
Prof. MAK Yuen Teen
National University of Singapore
Steve Hellman
Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Heidi-Marie Weeast
NJM Insurance Group
Renee Suby
U.S. Bank
Alex Lim
Blacklist Games
Brenda Cox
United Bankshares
Ndidi Uzo-Ojimadu
Instructor, Univ. of Calgary School of Business
Jeffrey Hoskins
United Bankshares, Inc.
Lisa Holloway
ProfitLinq
Peter McParlane
Jefferson Wells
Jessica Kramer
Caterpillar
Joanne Macdonald
PWC
Justin Tully
Goettl AC & Plumbing
Mary Beth Wert
VITA / AARP
Morena Chui
Pembina
Mark Scheiwer
Scotts Miracle-Gro
Joseph Wagner
Lowell Observatory
Colleen Bantz
McKonly & Asbury
Andrew Scherping
Energizer
Marcelle Best
Sagicor Finance
Latiff Chagpar, CPA
Small Business Consultants
Juvy Shoopman
Arizona State University
Susan Von Stein
Intuit
Jim Baker
Northland Cathedral
Janice Beck
Tax Preparer
Jack Blumenthal
JE Blumenthal, CPA
Laurie Brown
Charlotte County Sheriffs Office
Sheila Browne-Simpson
Humber-Self
Anh Du
Direct Energy
Marie McLucas
Primax Properties
Sonya Miller
Jefferson County Public Schools
Anthony Paone
Self Employed
Nancy Gillies
HR Block
Catherine Grattan
St. Clair County Community Mental Health
Donna Gould
Crystal Mountain Products
Andrea Griffitts
ORNL FCU
Amber Hannon
Columbia Sussex
Beverly Jones
The Harvey Salt Company
Ronald Kircher
Winkel, Parker & Foster CPAS
Roxanne Neal
Simplicity Group Holdings
Denise Kovatch
Tax Pros & Accounting Services
Rita Leung
Rita Leung CPA
Paul Schneider
Park Forest Group
Sheila Simmons-Semana
Sheila Simmons-Semana
Robert Slowik
Robert A Slowik PA EA CFP
Suzanne Vahratian
Horizon Global
Susan Walz
State of Minnesota
David Wilkins
Wolverine Business Solutions, LLC
Merle Woods
HR Block
Janine Whited
Janine Whited CPA
Lisa Seemann
DRB Group