Roger Steare

Professor Roger Steare FRSA
Born	(1958-03-10) 10 March 1958 Brighton, Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Bedford College, University of London
Occupation	Consultant Speaker Author
Website	thecorporatephilosopher.org

Roger Steare (born 10 March 1958 in Brighton, England), is a British ethicist, corporate philosopher, consultant, speaker and author.

Early life and education

His father was a Methodist preacher and later a non-stipendiary Anglican priest. Steare read History at Bedford College, University of London, (1976–1979) and elected to read the History of Western Philosophy with Conrad Russell.

Career

Steare's early career included roles as a social worker and banker, and ten years as chief executive of a recruitment company.^[1]

He is now Honorary Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School in London. He teaches on the Executive MBA Programs as well as consulting with external corporate clients through Cass Executive Education.^[1][2]

He is also a fellow of the cross-party policy think tank, ResPublica^[3][4] founded by Phillip Blond in 2009. Steare's essay on The Power of Love in Business was included in ResPublica's "Changing The Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain".^[5]

Steare was a member of the Expert Drafting Committee for Rights and Humanity, invited by the British Government to prepare recommendations for the G20 London Summit in April 2009.^[6][7][8]

In collaboration with Athens-based chartered psychologist Pavlos Stamboulides, Steare conducts empirical research on moral character, judgement and behaviour. Some of this research was published in The Times^[9] in October 2010, in a speech by Hector Sants of the Financial Services Authority in 2010^[10][11] and by PwC UK in 2010.^[12] He is co-designer of the psychometric profile MoralDNA, used to measure moral values.^[1]

Steare is the author of Ethicability, first published in 2006 and now in its 5th edition.^[13] He is a regular contributor to the FT and to Chartered Banker^[14] magazine in which he challenges the "dysfunctional totalitarian construct" of modern corporations.^[15] On 22 July 2012, he was a guest on the BBC World Service's "In the Balance" programme, in an episode entitled Holding Companies to Account.^[16]

In 2014, Steare was appointed Visiting Professor of European Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges.^[17] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.^{[6][7][18][19]}

Steare has developed programs in leadership, ethics and corporate responsibility for organisations including BP,^[10] Citigroup,^[20] HSBC,^[10] PwC,^[20][21] the Financial Services Authority^[1] and the Serious Fraud Office.^[22]

Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, BP incorporated Steare's ethicability RIGHT framework for ethical decision-making into the BP 2011 Code of Conduct.^[23]

Bibliography

• —— (2013). Ethicability: How to Decide What's Right and Find the Courage to Do It (5th Revised ed.). Roger Steare Consulting Limited. ISBN 978-0955236976. 

Papers

• ——. "The Board's Role in Establishing the Right Corporate Culture" (PDF). Business Risk – A practical guide for board members (A Director's Guide). Institute of Directors: 25–31. ISBN 9781904520-80-1. 
• —— (2014). "The Virtue of Enterprise" (PDF). ResPublica. 
• —— (2014). "Virtuous Banking" (PDF). ResPublica. 
• —— (2014). "Managers and their MoralDNA" (PDF). Chartered Management Institute. 
• —— (2014). "The MoralDNA of Performance" (PDF). Chartered Management Institute. 

References

External links

• Official website
• Roger Steare on Twitter
  
• In the Balance – Holding Companies to Account on BBC iPlayer