Contributors

Joel A. Rogers, Director of Ethics & Corporate Compliance

Joel Rogers is responsible for management of the RedHawk Ethics Solution within the Ethics & Compliance Practice at Kaplan EduNeering.  He has traveled extensively speaking on ethics, and has conducted workshops designed to impact organizational culture for large corporations and government agencies.  He has also written Corporate Codes of Conduct and Ethics for several major US companies including Chevron, Allstate Insurance, McCormick, and many others.  Joel has been the Director of Ethics Training & Education for the City of New York, has served on the Steering Committee of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL), and has consulted to many public agencies including US municipalities and foreign governments.  Joel has been named a 2008 “Millstein Rising Star of Corporate Governance” by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management.

Theodore W. Nunez, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, Ethics & Corporate Compliance

After working as an editor at a small, independent magazine Ted earned a doctorate in ethics from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Ted has taught applied ethics at several colleges and universities in the United States, including Villanova University and Middlebury College. Ted is a member of several professional societies and a frequent presenter at conferences. An award-winning author, Ted has published a number of scholarly articles in the areas of social and environmental ethics. He brings to RedHawk an expertise in business ethics as well as a keen interest in risk issues and the stewardship responsibilities of business in meeting the challenges of sustainability. 

Cathleen Sullivan, Co-creator of the ECC & former RedHawk President

Cathleen is a leading authority on ethics communication and training. She has provided tactical and strategic consultation to CEOs and other senior executives in the nation’s largest and most prestigious corporations to ensure global support for programmatic ethics training and communication initiatives. She has led development of ethics and compliance programs at the New York Stock Exchange, NCR, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical and many other Fortune 500 companies. Cathleen combines a keen understanding of ethical, policy, and regulatory issues with an extensive knowledge of how to influence employee behavior. The results are ethics and compliance programs that not only meet legal and regulatory requirements but also change employee behavior and build a company’s ethical culture. Cathleen has been a frequent participant at ethics conferences and workshops across the country and has addressed the Ethics Officers Association and the American Management Association. 

Jay Sullivan, Co-creator of the ECC & former RedHawk Chief Creative Officer

Jay has spent over 20 years creating innovative ethics communication tools and strategies for corporate America, applying proven marketing and advertising techniques to directly impact employee behavior. He has created video, online training, and other media to support ethics programs for Sony, Altria, AlliedSignal, Merck & Co., and numerous other leading corporations. A skilled video director and interviewer, Jay has conducted several hundred on-camera interviews with employees to explore their views of ethics in the workplace. He has also worked with CEOs at Fortune 500 companies to capture effective ethics leadership messages on video and in print. Jay had the honor of conducting an on-camera interview with President Jimmy Carter while directing “Source of Hope”, a video profiling Merck’s Mectizan Donation Program.