March 4, 2013 Virtual Presentation

• Inspire Integrity, Professor Corey Ciochetti, University of Denver Daniels College of Business
• Part of the inaugural  Ethics Boot Camp hosted by the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, Professor Corey Ciochetti discusses small ways to commit to improve character and inspire integrity in others.  The Ethics Boot Camp is a stand-alone program for students beginning their business academic career during their sophomore year of study. During the camp, students evaluate and start to incorporate ethical frameworks into their lives, and engage in discussion and analysis of ethical issues alongside peers, professors, and community members. The camp consists of keynotes and breakout sessions along with a volunteer component with Goodwill Industries.
• Available at: http://bit.ly/YZ6wEE

March 7, 2013

• COE General Meeting
• The Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics meets the first Thursday of every month in the Board of County Commission Chambers, 301 N. Olive Ave. West Palm Beach.   In honor of Ethics Awareness Month, the Commission looks forward to congratulating the Lake Worth High School Ethics Bowl Team.  Palm Beach County will be represented by these exceptional students at the National High School Ethics Bowl competition on April 16 in North Carolina.

March 8, 2013

• Panel Discussion:  Pioneering Ethics: Palm Beach County
• Alan Johnson
• Prior to his selection as Chief Assistant State Attorney, Alan Johnson served as the founding executive director of the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics.  In just over 3 years Mr. Johnson built a highly efficient office that authored over 250 advisory opinions and provided over 200 trainings to public officials, employees, advisory board members and members of the public. Before joining the COE, Mr. Johnson was a 17 year state prosecutor for the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County.  Mr. Johnson has also served in various capacities as a member and chairman of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee and the Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee as well as regularly serving as a volunteer youth court judge. Since 2000, Mr. Johnson has been a frequent instructor for the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association in areas including ethics for prosecutors, victim rights, homicide prosecution, evidence and jury selection.  Mr. Johnson graduated from Columbia University in 1973 and obtained his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.

• Leonard Berger
• Leonard Berger is Senior Assistant County Attorney for Palm Beach County where he has served since 1993.  He is chief appellate counsel for the County Attorney’s Office, and also specializes in land use law and ethics compliance for public officials and employees.  Mr. Berger was one of the principal drafters of the ordinances creating the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics and the Code of Ethics. He received his J.D. from Nova University and B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University.

• Bruce Lewis
• Bruce N. Lewis is the Founder and CEO of L B Limited & Associates, Incorporated, a Strategic Public Relations company located in Downtown West Palm Beach. The firm has been in business for 21 years and specializes in public involvement processes directly related to large scale public/private Development projects. Bruce is responsible for new business development, strategic planning, Construction Program Management, corporate image development, brand strategies, business model development/refinement and serves as Sr. Program/Project Manager. Mr. Lewis has a BSEE Degree with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota and is a research oriented professional. 

Currently, Mr. Lewis serves as the Board Chairman of the City of West Palm Beach, Downtown Development Authority, a special Taxing District responsible for attraction/retention of both commercial and merchant business operations. Mr. Lewis served as the 2005/2006 Campaign Chairman for the United Way of Palm Beach County raising a record $15.5 million and was the first person of color to serve in this capacity in the County’s history.  

• Joseph Centorino
  • Joseph Centorino assumed the position of Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust on September 1, 2011, following his laudatory 25-year career at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. For most of that time, he served as Chief of the Public Corruption Division where he oversaw the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed by public officers and employees. In addition to the private practice of law and work as an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, Mr. Centorino served for eight years as an elected city councilman in his hometown of Salem and worked briefly as a congressional aide.

  The graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School is a frequent lecturer, speaker and panelist on corruption and ethics-related topics. He has served as an instructor of Professionalism & Ethics at Florida International University and is often asked to testify before local and state grand juries, advisory boards and governments. Mr. Centorino serves on the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Facebook Live Question and Answer Session
• Join us on Fridays at 1 pm on Facebook to discuss the virtual ethics presentation of the week.    This week we will examine Professor Ciochetti’s call to action.   Tune into our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/pbccoe on Friday, March 8th at 1 pm.  Our discussion topic and initial questions for consideration will be available at 12:50 pm.  COE staff will begin answering questions shortly thereafter.  We look forward to hearing from you. 

March 11, 2013 Virtual Presentation

• Be the Ethicist Quiz, by Randy Cohen
• For twelve years  Randy Cohen wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine, an experience he drew on to write his first ethics book, “The Good, the Bad and the Difference.” He is currently the creator and host of “Person Place Thing,” a public radio program produced by WAMC. 
• This quiz, developed for Mr. Cohen’s first ethics book asks us to question how we make everyday decisions.  Be sure to record your answers and view the Ethicist’s response.  We look forward to discussing your thoughts and opinions on these ethical dilemmas on Friday, March 15 at 1pm on Facebook. 
• Available at: http://bit.ly/12aZZx4

March 15, 2013

• Facebook Live Question and Answer Session
• Join us Fridays at 1 pm on Facebook to discuss the virtual ethics presentation of the week.    This week we will examine author Randy Cohen’s “Be the Ethicist Quiz”.   Tune into our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/pbccoe on Friday, March 15th at 1 pm.  Our discussion topic and initial questions for consideration will be available at 12:50 pm.  COE staff will begin answering questions shortly thereafter.  We look forward to hearing from you.

March 18, 2013 Virtual Presentation

• Max Bazerman: Blind Spots, Bernie Madoff’s and Ours.  In this short video, author and Harvard Professor Max Bazerman examines the ways in which people overestimate their ability to do what is right and how they can act unethically without meaning to. 
• Available at http://bit.ly/WrnA4Q

March 22, 2013

• Facebook Live Question and Answer Session
• Join us on Fridays at 1 pm on Facebook to discuss the virtual ethics presentation of the week.    This week we will examine Professor Max Bazerman’s analysis of the Bernie Madoff scandal.  Professor Bazerman questions why highly educated, trained professionals in the industry didn’t sound the alarm sooner; why didn’t the warning bells go off for fund managers or government regulators?   Tune into our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/pbccoe on Friday, March 22nd at 1 pm.  Our discussion topic and initial questions for consideration will be available at 12:50 pm.  COE staff will begin answering questions shortly thereafter.  We look forward to hearing from you.

March 25, 2013

• Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Dov Seidman, hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
• This clip is an excerpt of a more detailed conversation on how moral philosophy and ethics affects corporate culture.  Dov Seidman is the founder and CEO of LRN, a corporate virtue consulting firm.   LRN works with international companies such as Apple, Johnson & Johnson, DuPont and 3M to develop ethical corporate cultures and inspire principled performance in business.  Mr. Seidman’s views on business behavior, success and corporate culture have been quoted in hundreds of media, including an in-depth profile in FORTUNE Magazine and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Charlie Rose and ABC’s Good Morning America.  He is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine.
• Available at http://bit.ly/YAj3wh

March 29, 2013

• Facebook Live Question and Answer Session