When        
2nd Wednesday of every month -- 7:15 to 8:30 am.

Where
BC Hydro, 333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, B.C.
(please check monthly announcements for room number)

Cost:  Members $7.00   Non-Members $10.00

RSVP to:  604.685-6560 or email: rsvp@workplacecentre.org 

Ethics for Breakfast Chair, Conrad Guelke
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June 2009

Note: Ethics Breakfasts are now on the second Wednesday of each month...
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Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, June 10, 2009           7:15 - 8:30 am Ethics & the Conservation Economy                   with Ian Gill, President of Ecotrust Canada How can we establish new ethical codes of conduct in our economy and society? Too often, economic development models ignore environmental sustainability and social benefits to communities, particularly First Nations... [Read more]   Join Ian Gill as he discusses ways in our current economic crisis to build an ethical conservation economy based on what people need, and what the environment will sustain.                click here to RSVP   -or-  phone: 604-685-6560 DATE:            Wednesday, June 10th -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                       333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                       Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included)        click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560   About Our Speaker: Ian Gill is president and founder of Ecotrust Canada in Vancouver, B.C. and a director of Ecotrust in Portland, Ore. These non-profit organizations promote the emergence of a conservation economy in the coastal temperate rainforests of North America. Before creating Ecotrust Canada, Ian spent seven years as a television reporter with the CBC, and seven years as a senior reporter/editor with the Vancouver Sun. He is the author of the best-selling book... [Read more]

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May 2009

 

Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, April 8, 2009         7:15 - 8:30 am Ethics & Youth: Strategies to Foster Change            with Ann Naymie, Leadership Development Coordinator,                          School Superintendents Association How can older generations guide the moral compass of today’s youth -- and what can we learn from them?  From combating global warming to the challenges of unemployment and a major recession, today’s young people face overwhelming problems and ethical dilemmas. Some don’t trust those who created these problems. But many hold positive visions of a better world, searching for ways to create and maintain a sustainable future through their values, environment and economy. Join speaker Ann Naymie as she explores: How can ethical leaders of older generations share their wisdom and experience to assist youth with much-needed guidance? What lessons from the past can help inform the future? How can elders connect with young people to support their hopes and dreams... and what can they teach us?                click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560                              - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DATE:            Wednesday, April 8th -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                      333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                      Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included)                              - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About Our Speaker: Ann Naymie administered the Ethics Education Initiative for the BC School Superintendents Association’s (BCSSA). She has also taught ethics courses at the Justice Institute of BC, Royal Roads University, and through the Institute for Global Ethics (Canada). As BCSSA’s Coordinator for Leadership Development, Ann designed, managed and implemented educational programs, including online training for prospective superintendents and a leadership program for First Nations educators. She also co-designed a program to facilitate meaningful parent-teacher dialogue for the School Leadership Centre at UBC which was piloted in several elementary and secondary schools in BC. Ann also co-teaches mentoring for the Justice Institute of B.C., and gives film courses at the Vancouver Film School and Emily Carr University of Art & Design.                 click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560

 











































































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March 2009


Note: Ethics Breakfasts are now on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
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Ethics for Breakfast presents

20th Anniversary Event Wednesday, March 11th, 2008             7:15 - 8:30 am  20 Years   of Ethics:     How have things  changed?                     with Terry Anderson and Conrad Guelke,                two of the pioneers of the "Ethics for Breakfast" program,                              and moderator Brian Fraser                                  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do your ethical standards stay the same at home and at work, regardless of the issue?  As children, many of us learned that "white lies" are okay. In recent years, we’ve seen corporate fraud and corruption (from Enron to mortgage lenders) taint the practice of business ethics at the highest levels. Has our notion of ethics, both at the individual and societal level, grown too malleable in the last few decades? Is ethics now a one-size-fits-all approach? Are we more -or- less ethical in business than we were in the 1980s? Twenty years ago, the Workplace Ministry Society and the Vancouver School of Theology launched "Ethics for Breakfast," a series on ethical issues designed for the downtown business community. Our speakers today helped pioneer that program. Join panelists Terry Anderson and Conrad Guelke, with moderator Brian Fraser, as they explore how ethics have changed in the past 20 years.                click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560                              - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DATE:            Wednesday, March 11th -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                      333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                      Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included)                              - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - About Our Speakers: Terry Anderson is an emeritus professor from the Vancouver School of Theology where his academic specialty was ethics. Currently, he is ethics consultant to the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Manitoba on hydro development and serves on the Richmond Hospital Ethics Committee and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Ethics Committee... [Read more]. Conrad Guelke, P. Eng., is principal of CSP Enterprises, a consulting business with a focus on strategy, planning and communications. He is a director of the Pacific Energy Innovation Association (PEIA) and a member of the Council of Elders of the David Suzuki Foundation. He has organized the Workplace Centre’s Ethics for Breakfast program since its inception in 1989... [Read more]. Moderator Brian Fraser is the Lead Provocateur of Jazzthink. He does professional speaking, consulting and executive coaching aimed at helping people and organizations achieve exceptional performance. Prior to launching Jazzthink, Brian served 16 years as Dean of St. Andrew’s Hall and Professor of History at Vancouver School of Theology... [Read more].                 click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560

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February 2009


 

Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, Feb. 11th, 2008             7:15 - 8:30 am Obama, Ethics and the Environment with Bob Worcester, Psychologist and Instructor (Ret.), Langara College, and President, Multi-Faith Action Society Can we move beyond self interest  -to-  what's good for all human beings, and the planet as a whole? In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama made reference to the biblical passage in Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but now it is time to put away childish things." His politics also represents an emergence of the civil society model ("it takes a village to raise a child") and beyond the individualist-nationalist-free enterprise approach of George Bush. So what might ethical and environmental "maturity" look like? And how will this shift to civil society values change the way we deal with the environmental and ethical dilemmas that face us? Join us as Bob Worcester explores some of these dilemmas – from choosing among nuclear power, biofuels, wind/solar energy...  [Read more]             click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560 DATE:            Wednesday, February 11th -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                      333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                      Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included) About Our Speaker: Bob Worcester has an MA in Psychology and was an instructor in Psychology at Langara Community College for the past 35 years. A long-time member of Christ Church Cathedral (Anglican), he is the Chair of the Anglican Environmental Taskforce of the Diocese of New Westminster – and President of the Multi-faith Action Society, which sponsored the 2008 "Faith and the Environment" conference. ...[Read more]                 click here to RSVP   or phone: 604-685-6560

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January 2009

Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, Jan. 21st, 2008            7:15 - 8:30 am Rogue Traders: The canaries in the mine(field) of the Economic Meltdown with Dr. Mark Wexler, Endowed University Professor of Business Ethics, Segal Graduate School of Business Administration, SFU If we had interpreted the signs better...                                              could we have seen this coming? In this session, Dr. Mark Wexler will look at Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- a famous story about a rogue ivory trader -- as a parable for considering our recent economic meltdown, and navigating through the ethical quagmire and ongoing excuses about what caused it. Loosely based on his paper, "Financial edgework and the persistence of rogue traders" (forthcoming in Business Ethics: A European Journal), Mark will look at:      • the relationship between speculative brokers and the brokerage houses that employ them      • trading and loss limits -- deemed "immutable" by brokerage houses to their customers, but "negotiable" to their star traders      • inducements to traders, provided by brokerage houses, that frame "betting as a form of risk;" and      • why he believes that rogue traders can be seen as the "canaries in the mine(field)" of our present economic situation. Join us for a lively and thought provoking talk/discussion with our "resident Ethics expert," Dr. Mark Wexler. In Heart of Darkness, Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando in the film Apocalypse Now) was an ivory trader who "went rogue." Employed by the Company and admired by all the traders, he was given increasing autonomy to 'do as he would' as long as he continued to rack up stupendous profits...[Read more]                click here to RSVP   or phone   604-685-6560 DATE:            Wednesday, January 21st -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                      333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                      Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included) About Our Speaker: Dr. Mark N. Wexler is Endowed University Professor of Business Ethics at the Segal Graduate School of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, as well as Executive Director of the Perimeter Group of Ethics Consultants and Vice President of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The author of eight books, Mark is a four-time teaching award winner, a recipient of the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Leadership in Management Education" Award, and... [Read more]                click here to RSVP   or phone   604-685-6560 Note: For those not able to attend or uncomfortable with raising questions during the session, Mark will make copies of his discussion available and invites you to contact him at wexler@sfu.ca.

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December 2008 EVENT 

Ethics for Breakfast presents

Bringing Values to Work         with Rob Safrata, CEO, Novex Delivery Solutions                         (Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 -- 7:15 - 8:30 am)                                             - - - - - - - - - -           "It's easier telling the truth, that way you don't                have to remember anything." - Mark Twain Respect, service, care, honesty, communication and higher order – these are all important elements of operating a "triple bottom line" business, according to Novex CEO Rob Safrata. Novex Delivery Solutions (aka Novex Couriers) is one of the largest local same-day couriers in the Lower Mainland, with over 100 delivery vehicles making over 2000 deliveries per day. Winner of the 2008 ecoFREIGHT Transportation Award (one of the GLOBE Foundation Awards for Environmental Excellence), the company is also committed to becoming a truly sustainable organization, by creating a triple bottom line that includes a social, economic and environmental focus. [Read more here] Join us as Rob Safrata talks about Novex's commitment to Sustainability and Ethical Business practices, and the alignment of its associates to its cause.                                        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -                        click here to RSVP   -or-  phone: 604-685-6560 DATE:            Tuesday, Dec. 9th -- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                       333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                       Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included)                click here to RSVP   -or-  phone: 604-685-6560 About Our Speaker: Robert Safrata was an established and successful corporate leader, visionary and investor prior to buying NOVEX Couriers and becoming the company’s CEO. Since then, he has turned the company into Canada’s first environmentally responsible courier. It is now being heralded as the company that is raising the bar and setting new standards of environmental ethics – in a business not historically known as being environmentally sensitive. In 1996, Safrata founded Eaglequest Golf Centers Inc., and built this into a chain of golf centres across North America. He acted as CEO until 1998, at which time the business revenues had reached $40 million with 450 employees. Safrata and his partners sold Eaglequest to the US market leader for $105 million, providing returns of over 300% to shareholders. An Al Gore-trained speaker for An Inconvenient Truth, Safrata remains an active partner of Paradigm Partners, a corporate investment group comprised of the former executive management team of Eaglequest Golf Centers. Rob Safrata is a Member of the Young Presidents Organization and a past Chairman of Outward Bound Canada. As a member of the Canadian Ski Team from 1973 to 1978, he competed in the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. [More on this speaker]

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November 2008 EVENT

**NOTE:  Ethics for Breakfast is on WEDNESDAY this month...** Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, November 12, 2008                7:15 - 8:30 am Ethics and the Fishbowl of Public Life   with Stephen Owen, QC, Vice President, External, Legal & Community    Relations at UBC, and Former Member of Parliament & Cabinet Minister                            With all the public scrutiny,                     would you be willing to be a politician? Most of us have the tendency to perform more ethically and to a higher standard when we are being observed. Yet the harsh scrutiny by the news media of those in public life can cause individuals and organizations to act secretively. This in turn can lead to misfeasance and malfeasance. What principles and processes can assist public officials to rise above the risks and fray? What is it like to live and work in this "fishbowl"? Join us for this rare look into the challenges of being an elected official, with someone who's seen it from the inside out.                click here to RSVP   -or-  phone: 604.685-6560 DATE:            Wednesday, Nov. 12th-- 7:15-8:30 am LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building                       333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver                       Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby COST:           Members - $7.00     Non-Members - $10.00                       (muffins, tea and coffee included)                            click here to RSVP   or phone: 604.685-6560 About Our Speaker: Stephen Owen has held many prestigious public service positions ranging from Ombudsman of British Columbia to Member of Parliament and Federal Cabinet Minister. His professional activities have included a two-year term as Chair of the Ethics and Education Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and numerous consulting assignments with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Amnesty International and other international organizations. In April 2007, he was appointed Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations at the University of British Columbia. [More about this Speaker] Full details on Mr. Owen's biography can be found at: http://www.external-affairs.ubc.ca/cv/.

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October 2008 

Our October Ethics for Breakfast has been cancelled
- due to the long weekend, the Election, and our speaker having to postpone!

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September 2008