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Updates from Giving Voice To Values at UVA Darden School of Business

  • 1.  Updates from Giving Voice To Values at UVA Darden School of Business

    Posted 09-25-2025 05:24

    Happy Fall! Giving Voice to Values continues to grow rapidly and globally, and we gratefully share recent developments below.

    New here? See our two-page overview of GVV's history and resources (PDF).

    Book Proposals: If you have proposal ideas for GVV-related books in the Giving Voice To Values Book Series from Routledge, please contact Brian Moriarty.

    Please send newsletter submissions to: GVV@darden.virginia.edu


    Highlights

    Mary C. Gentile will participate as a panelist in,"Physician Leadership for Tomorrow's Complexities: An Innovative Approach to Early Clinical Education," at the International Leadership Association Annual Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 16 October 2025.

    GVV content is included in the "Reimagining Business Excellence" program for executives from Israel and MENA Region hosted by Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. (Launched August 2025) 

    Webinar on "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership" by Mary C. Gentile for Protecting Your Practice: Building an Ethical Firm Culture, Preventing Internal Fraud, and Confronting Misconduct, myLawCLE.com, 28 August 2025.

    "Giving Voice to Values" was presented by Mary C. Gentile to the NASA LEADS Program, 8 July 2025.

    "Giving Voice to Values" was presented by Mary C. Gentile to L'Oreal World Network of Ethics Correspondents, L'Oreal Groupe, 25 June 2025.

    A new publication in the "Giving Voice to Values Book Series" is Making Values Real: Focus on the Yeast Effect: A Practical Guide to Living, Leading and Building Relationships Through Values by Arnold Smit. Johannesburg, South Africa: Knowres Ltd., 2025. Making Values Real is a transformative guide offering practical insights for integrating values into our personal lives, relationships, workplaces and society. Written from a facilitator's perspective, Smit introduces the reader to processes, methods and exercises that can be easily implemented in multiple situations where "making values real" is at stake. Mary Gentile writes the Foreword.

    WEBINARS, LECTURES, & PRESENTATIONS
     
    • "Physician Leadership for Tomorrow's Complexities: An Innovative Approach to Early Clinical Education," with Mary C. Gentile, panelist. International Leadership Association Annual Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 17 October 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values: An Innovative Approach to Accelerating Change in Healthcare" by John Heiser, PhD, MBA, JD;  Director, LEAD@Lahey Pathway; Assistant Dean, Leadership and Faculty Development;  UMass Chan-Lahey Department of Medicine. Charles University, Prague, 14 October 2025.  
    • Guest Lectures by Mary C. Gentile. Ethical Leadership Seminar, Notre Dame University, Mendoza College of Business, 29 September 2025.
    • Guest Lecture by Mary C. Gentile. "Social Impact Communications," Rutgers Online Graduate Course taught by Zach Langway, Fall, 2025.
    • "Webinar on "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership" by Mary C. Gentile for Protecting Your Practice: Building an Ethical Firm Culture, Preventing Internal Fraud, and Confronting Misconduct, myLawCLE.com, 28 August 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. NASA LEADS Program, 8 July 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. ABEN (Australian Business Ethics Network), 13 June 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. L'Oreal World Network of Ethics Correspondents, L'Oreal Group, 25 June 2025.
    • "Story-Telling for Corporate Social Intrapreneurs" by Mary C. Gentile. First Movers Seminar, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, 6 June 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership Development by Mary C. Gentile. Bentley Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop, Bentley University and Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, 2 June 2025.
    • "The Active Learning Curriculum of the LEAD@Lahey Leadership Pathway Program–Leadership Ethics module and the Giving Voice to Values Model in Medical Education" was presented by John Heiser and other faculty from University of Massachusetts Chan-Lahey Medical School. 2025 AAMC Regional Medical Campus Conference, June, 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values," by Mary C. Gentile. Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, Notre Dame University, 27-31 May 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership Development" by Mary C. Gentile. The Negotiation and Conflict Management Collaborative (NCMC), INSEAD and INSEAD Lifelong Learning, 22 May 2025.
    • "Giving Voice to Values," by Mary C. Gentile. Management 7770: "Ethics for Leadership & Change" course, Benedictine University, 17 May 2025.  
    • "Giving Voice to Values," interview with Mary C. Gentile by Dr. Mira Brancu, The Hard Skills Podcast, 1 April 2025.
    • "Standing Up for Your Values and Effectively Speaking Truth to Power Follow-Up Discussion," interview with Mary C. Gentile and guest commentators by Paul Barnett, Enlightened Enterprise Academy, The Salon, 26 March 2025.
    • Mary C. Gentile presented,"Deep Dive: Giving Voice to Values in a Contested Workplace" at the Aspen First Movers Deep Dive, The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program on 12 March 2025.
    PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA, AND ARTICLE MENTIONS/DISCUSSIONS OF GVV
    CURRICULUM

    GVV content is included in the "Reimagining Business Excellence" program for executives from Israel and MENA Region hosted by Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. (Launched August 2025)

    Darden Business Publishing is pleased to offer a new series of Tech Ethics cases (listed below). Several of the cases were made possible with a grant to the University of Virginia from the Deloitte Foundation. The full curriculum is available at Darden Business Publishing.

    PROGRAMS
    • Mary C. Gentile was named a Founding Member of the Enlightened Enterprise Academy. Learn More
    • Mary C. Gentile has been appointed an Advisory Board Member to the Carnegie Council Next Generation Leadership Initiative through 31 Dec 2025 by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
    • "'Giving Voice to Values' by Mary C. Gentile." Executive Coaching course taught by Anna Marie Valerio. New York University, Masters Degree in Psychology, 17 March 2025.
    • The Education Collaborative's Giving Voice to Values (GVV) Africa Program is shortlisted for the Nurturing Values and Ethics Award at the 11th Edition of the QS Reimagine Education Awards. Learn More
    • The Mastercard Foundation continues to work with "Giving Voice To Values" as part of their leadership programming with a presentation for Africa Country Directors given on 30 September and 29 October 2024.


    Books of Note

    Making Values Real: Focus on the Yeast Effect: A Practical Guide to Living, Leading and Building Relationships Through Values

    by Arnold Smit. (Johannesburg: Knowres Ltd., 2025).

    Ethics, CSR and Sustainability (ECSRS) Education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Conceptualization, Contextualization, and Empirical Evidence

    Edited by Noha El-Bassiouny, Dina El-Bassiouny, Ehab Mohamed and Mohamed Basuony (Routledge, 2024).

    Regenerative Business Voices: Values-based Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Enterprises

    by Mark G. Edwards, Anton Lindberg, Melker Larsson and Jonathan Angel (Routledge, 2024).

    Giving Voice to Values-based Leadership

    by Gry Espedal and Frank Elter (Routledge, 2024).


    Socratic Dialogue: Voicing Values

    by Sira Abenoza and Josep M. Lozano (Routledge, 2024).

    In the Works for the
    Routledge GVV Book Series

    The team at Routledge is excited to work with the following authors whose projects have been approved for the series: 
    • Trauma-Informed Leadership by Lisa Jones Christensen
    • Giving Voice to Values in Higher Education by Michelle Darnell
    • Networks of Empowerment: Collectively Giving Voice to Values and Counteracting Persistent and Pervasive Unethical Behavior by Peggy Cunningham and Minette Drumwright
    • Leading with Values in a VUCCA World: A Practical Guide to AI Governance by Dr. Colleen Lyons
    • The Nine Values-Based Drivers of Selling by Alberto Aleo, Alice Alessandri, Serena Calderoni and Luca Giorgetti

    Thank you for your continued interest and use of Giving Voice to Values!