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Technology has increased the flow of information and made our decision-making more transparent. In this panel discussion on empathy and ethics, Bill Drayton, Mary Gordon, Keith Hammonds, Kirk Hanson and Jill Vialet consider how empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and can only then move into the organisations we lead and the societies we serve.
The rapid shift of information flows presents us with an historic opportunity to create a global culture driven by the need for trust and inclusion. This is why it is so important for those who are defining the world’s future structures to consciously build the ethical skills necessary into their designs. The building of empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and quickly move into the organizations we lead, and ultimately, the societies we serve. During this panel discussion the participants are asked how societies are doing this, and more importantly, how change can be made to happen more quickly.
Bill Drayton is the CEO and Chair at Ashoka. He was elected one of the early MacArthur Fellows for his work, including the founding of Ashoka. The American Society of Public Administration and the National Academy of Public Administration jointly awarded him their National Public Service Award and he has also been named a Preiskel-Silverman Fellow for Yale Law School and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mary Gordon is the Founder and President at Roots of Empathy. In 1996 she founded Roots of Empathy, and in 2005 she founded the Seeds of Empathy program. Gordon is a Member of the Order of Canada, author, and social entrepreneur who has created award-winning programs based on the power of relationships as vehicles for learning.
Keith Hammonds is team leader for Ashoka's new Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism program, Ashoka. Hammonds is also the former Executive Editor at Fast Company. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School. He worked in London and Johannesburg as a freelance journalist, and consulted with New Nation, a weekly newspaper in South Africa, on publishing strategy. He also co-founded a drought relief food distribution network in Namibia.
Kirk Hanson is a professor and Executive Director at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Hanson is a graduate of Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has held graduate fellowships and research appointments at the Yale Divinity School and the Harvard Business School.
Jill Vialet is the Founder and Executive Director of Sports4Kids. Vialet has worked for more than 20 years in the non-profit sector, during which she focused her entrepreneurial skills on conceiving of and growing two successful non-profit organizations, Sports4Kids and MOCHA (Museum of Children's Art in Oakland). Vialet graduated from a public high school in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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