The mission of the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics at Xavier is to help students and other Xavier stakeholders recognize and deal with ethical and values-related issues in the workplace. A significant goal of this mission is to be a resource for the local, regional and national business and professional communities. One way of fulfilling this goal is to provide workshops and keynote addresses for groups and organizations. Both the director, Professor Paul Fiorelli, and Assistant Professor, Ann Marie Tracey (Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge, Retired) have spoken to numerous groups about the importance of business ethics. These groups have ranged from commercial realtors to business people from Azerbaijan.

The Institute has embarked on a new initiative of providing ethics related professional education. In the wake of the recent corporate scandals, most professionals realize the need for this important discussion. Professors Fiorelli and Tracey have designed several workshops targeted towards satisfying the continuing education needs for accountants and attorneys. For example, the “Reel CLE” Continuing Legal Education (CLE) session is a lively, interactive session that has been pre-approved to satisfy the Ohio CLE requirements of one hour of professionalism, one hour of ethics and one-half hour of substance abuse training.

The Institute is also available to design workshops tailored to your specific organization, firm or industry. To discuss new workshops or keynote speeches, please contact Paul Fiorelli directly at 513 745-2050, or his administrative assistant, Laura Randall at 513 745-3564.