It may be effective but is it ethical? The ethics of transformational change

Jim manages the IDEA Centre’s training, consultancy and applied research portfolio, providing ethical review and consultancy services, training and continuing professional development, and applied research. He has a book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press on the subject of moral responsibility and psychopathy and is the main researcher and author of the report Real Integrity: Practical solutions for organisations seeking to promote and encourage integrity.

Mikael Down is Executive Director for Assessment and Insights at the Banking Standards Board, where he is responsible for the BSB’s Assessment, Policy, Behavioural Science and Data Science teams. He began his career at HM Treasury, where he started as an economist before being seconded to the UK Permanent Representation in Brussels. On return to the Treasury in 2009, Mikael led many of the prudential policy reforms that followed the global financial crisis, before being appointed Deputy Director for Sanctions and Illicit Finance and Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force. In 2013 he joined the Financial Conduct Authority to lead a Policy Department responsible for a major overhaul of the accountability and remuneration frameworks for senior leaders in banks, before joining the BSB in 2015. Mikael is a Fellow at the Forward Institute, a Trustee of the Finance Innovation Lab, an Honorary Lecturer at Queen Mary University London, and a Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. He has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and is studying for a PhD in Ethics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leeds.

Liz is a Teaching Fellow and Consultant in Applied Ethics, and Deputy Director of the IDEA Centre. Her university teaching includes business ethics, professional ethics and corporate social responsibility.  She also teaches on the Centre's online MA in Applied and Professional Ethics, and other MA programmes in the business school. Before completing her PhD on the ethics of economic sanctions, she worked as an auditor at Deloitte for several years and she is a chartered accountant (ACA).

Tracey Groves is a trusted business adviser and consultant, an expert facilitator and executive educator, and an inspiring business speaker with deep consulting and business transformation experience, working with Boards and Business Leaders. A former PwC Partner, she is  Director of Intelligent Ethics, her own award-winning advisory business since 2017,  focusing on hardwiring critical elements of the ESG agenda into business.  Tracey is passionate about how Leaders define and embrace what ‘doing the right thing’ means to them, their business and wider stakeholders.

Group Head of Ethical Business Conduct, BAE Systems Plc. Dominic is responsible for BAE Systems' Business Ethics Programme across the UK and International businesses, and is the current Chair of the International Forum on Business Ethical Conduct (IFBEC). He has deep experience in implementing and operating all aspects of ethics and compliance governance frameworks. Dominic previously held similar leadership roles in Ethics and Compliance at Coca-Cola Enterprises and at BG Group, an oil and gas major. He is also a qualified auditor, and held audit and consulting roles at KPMG for seven years. Dominic has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Philosophy from St. Andrews University.

Director, CoachInclusion. Dawn Jackson is a credentialed ICF coach, consultant and thought leader in equity, inclusion and diversity. She is Director of her own company CoachInclusion which is dedicated to making coaching accessible for everyone irrespective of difference. Dawn also helps with organisations and leaders to develop the inclusive and coaching skills required to lead and engage diverse teams. Having previously led the Talent and Diversity  agenda across numerous Financial Services organisations she joined the Board of the (ICF) International Coaching Federation in 2020 where she focuses her passion for greater equity on advancing Inclusion and Belonging across the Coaching profession.

Jo is an experienced Non-Executive Director who has worked across multiple sectors in her executive and non-executive careers. As an executive she sat on the board of the retailers Homebase and B&Q, and as well as having food, non-food and fashion retailing experience, she also held senior roles in sectors including house building, lottery, and fast moving consumer goods. As a Non-Executive Director she has had extensive board, audit and remuneration experience and is currently the Senior Independent Director and Remuneration committee chair for the Coventry Building Society, and chairs the Current Account Switch Service, the Cash ISA Switch Service, and the PayM mobile payments system for Pay.uk. She sits on the board of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and chairs their Remuneration committee, and is also a Non Exec for the FTSE 250 business Safestore. She is also chair of trustees for the children’s charity Make Some Noise.

Chris is the Director of the IDEA Centre.  He also teaches at undergraduate, taught Masters and PhD levels, in particular directing the MA in Healthcare Ethics and online MA in Applied and Professional Ethics. At undergraduate level he is mainly involved in teaching and material development with business ethics, medical ethics, and ethics in dentistry. Chris is a National Teaching Fellow, one of only three philosophers in the UK to hold this award.