Edward Petry, PhD
Vice President, Ethical Leadership Group, A Global Compliance Company
Join Edward on August 9 – 13 in the
Chief Compliance and Ethics Officers Group
Edward S. Petry, PhD, joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2005, after serving nine years as the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). He is also currently the Program Director for the Conference Board’s ethics and compliance conferences and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). He has been active in the business ethics field since 1986.
At Global Compliance Ed is responsible for assisting corporations in designing and improving ethics and compliance initiatives including conducting program and culture assessments, writing corporate codes of conduct and designing and delivering training.
Ed served for three years as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Advisory Group and was a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the United States Olympic Committee.
Dr. Petry has authored several major surveys including the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s National Survey of Ethics and Compliance in Organizations (1995), Sources and Consequences of Workplace Pressure (1997) and Technology and Ethics in the Workplace (1998). He has edited and/or co-authored six books on business ethics, published dozens of articles, and been a featured speaker at numerous national and international forums including the Conference Board, the Chautauqua Institute and was the 2004 Ben Williams Distinguished Speaker at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He has been quoted or appeared in every major business publication and business media outlet.
Ed received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and has also received degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto and Trinity College. Prior to becoming the ECOA’s first full-time director, Dr. Petry was a tenured professor of philosophy at Bentley College.