Erica Salmon Byrne, CEO of Ethisphere discusses:
1) How does a company become one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies?
2) What are the top ethics issues facing companies?
3) How can businesses create a more ethical environment?
4) What questions should businesses ask about ethics and AI?
5) Proof that being ethical is good business
Linda Welter, the CEO of Caliber Group, a brand marketing, public relations, and digital firm discusses a number of important ethics topics, including:
1) Where do you draw the competitive line?
2) What is our first responsibility in ethical situations?
3) Ethics issues with influencers
Rebecca Wilson, the Executive Vice President International for WE Communications International provides a great overview of the 2022 Brands in Motion Study and what it means for ethical communicators, including:
1) Addressing the diversity quota dilemma and tokenization
2) How many companies are delivering on their value-led commitments
3) How do brands balance their commitments to practical short-term issues versus long-term issues?
4) Key findings from the 2022 Brands In Motion Study
5) The two things every ethical communicator must embrace
Thank you! Ethical Voices: Practicing Public Relations with Integrity book launched a month early. And it quickly became the #1 and #5 new public relations book (print and kindle) on Amazon.
This week on EthicalVoices, Filomena Fanelli, CEO of Impact PR & Communications discusses a number of important ethical issues, including:
1) Why we need to trust but verify
2) How to make your employees understand and live your values
3) Ethics and predatory lending
This week we’re doing something a little bit different, and we’re speaking with Dr. Juan Meng, the Associate Professor of Public Relations at the University of Georgia, and Dr. Marlene Neill, APR, Fellow PRSA, an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at Baylor University. I asked them to share insights from a recent journal article they authored titled The Role of Ethical Leadership in Building Influence: Perspectives from Female Public Relations Professionals.
Ellen Crane, APR, Fellow PRSA. founder of Women Elevated, addresses a number of important ethics issues including:
1) What to do when your ethical values diverge from your employer’s values?
2) How can old school strategies counter disinformation
first interviewed Felicia Blow, APR, almost two years ago. She was one of my first 15 interviews for the blog and podcast. This year she is the 2022 National Chair or PRSA, so I thought it made sense to revisit the interview.
She discusses a number of important topics including:
• How to make the ethical choice when your bosses issue conflicting orders
• What to do when your employer lies to you
• New areas of PR ethics concerns
• The best ethics advice she ever received
This week, Amy Coward, APR, Fellow PRSA, the President of AC Public Relations, discusses a number of ethics issues, including:
1) How to respond ethically when someone with an agenda attacks you
2) Effective ways to approach your boss to tell them they are acting unethically
3) Why you need to remember – what you allow, you condone
Melissa Vela-Williamson, APR, an award-winning public relations expert, national columnist and host of the great Smart Talk Series podcast discusses:
1) What to do when you are pressured to inflate numbers?
2) What to do when you are faced with nearness and drinking bias
3) The ethics issues of multicultural appropriation