Working With Values: In Conversation With Mary C. Gentile

Hi, I am Stephen Berkely, Director of Global Business at Flyntrok and I am thrilled to be sharing with you the fabulous conversation I had recently with Mary Gentile about working with values.

About Mary

Mary C. Gentile Ph.D. is the creator and director of Giving Voice to Values, and consults on management education and values-driven leadership for academic, business, government and non-governmental organizations. She served as Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at University of Virginia-Darden School of Business from 2016-2022. She was also faculty at Babson College from 2009-2015. In her ten-year tenure at Harvard Business School (1985-1995), she developed and taught the school’s first course on managing diversity, and helped design and teach its first required module on ethical decision-making.

Mary is held in high esteem in the world of Business Ethics and sits on many Ethics Advisory boards including EthicsIndia Advisory Board. the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance, Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law, and the International Advisory Board, Journal of Business Ethics and Society.

Mary’s books include “Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right” and several titles on ethics and diversity. She is editor of the Giving Voice to Values book series published by Routledge, and also edited eight books in the Business Ethics and Corporate Citizenship Collection from Business Expert Press. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine and Risk Management. She lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts.

What stays with me from our conversation?

Here are some highlights from our conversation that has stayed with me. Please click on the link below to listen to the entire conversation.

  • Increase the likelihood that people will act on our values by Giving people the Comfort, Confidence and Competence to express their values
  • There are seven pillars of Giving Voice to Values. Each one is important to consider and design for.

Here is a link to listen to the entire conversation, as part of the Working with Values series.

Working With Values Series


At Flyntrok, we believe there are many ways to work with values. One that we hold close, is working with values through conversations and stories. We created the Working With Values series to provide a platform where some of the best minds from across the globe can share and build on each other’s perspectives of working with Values. This series includes conversations, webinars, short and long AV posts.

I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Mary Gentille, on working with Values.

Further Reading

Free Course on Giving Voice to Values

Giving Voice to values book

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