About the Sponsors
The Center for Business Ethics (CBE) at Bentley College (Waltham, Mass.) is one of the world’s leading research and educational institutes in the field of business ethics. It is also among the oldest — established in 1976 by W. Michael Hoffman, when the field was in its infancy. For more than three decades, CBE has shown unsurpassed leadership in advancing knowledge, stimulating public discourse, and disseminating best practices among a global network of executives, ethics and compliance professionals, academics, researchers, and students of business. Bentley is a leader in business education. Centered on education and research in business and related professions, Bentley blends the breadth and technological strength of a university with the values and student focus of a small college.
The Saltwater Institute (Kennebunk, Maine) was established in 1999 by Tom Chappell, the co-founder and CEO of Tom’s of Maine. The Saltwater Institute is a nonprofit educational foundation that helps professionals be more intentional in practicing values-integrated leadership and building values-integrated organizations. Saltwater assists in identifying and integrating individual and organizational values, and in weaving those values into business strategy. Results are transformational, both in terms of individual leadership and organizational performance. More than 500 individuals have graduated from The Seven Intentions® program with a new
understanding of how to lead with their values.
