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Dr. Joanne Ciulla is a professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University. She is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Before joining Rutgers, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond), where she was a founding faculty member of the first degree-granting liberal arts school of leadership studies in the world. 

She has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University, and numerous visiting appointments outside the U.S. She sits on the editorial boards of The Business Ethics Quarterly and The Leadership Quarterly.

Professor Ciulla is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship in Business Ethics from the Society for Business Ethics, the Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association, The Eminent Scholar Award from the Network of Leadership Scholars in the Academy of Management, The Lifetime Achievement Award for Service from the Society for Business Ethics, The Master Teacher Award from The Wheatley Institution and the Society for Business Ethics, The Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education, and The Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond.

Connecting with Dr. Ciulla

• Dr. Ciulla's webpage at Rutgers University 

Select Publications by Dr. Ciulla

• Dr. Joanne Ciulla at Google Scholar
• Leadership and the Power of Resentment
• Searching for Mandela: The insights of biographical research
• The Working Life: The Promise of Betrayal of Modern Work
• Ethics: The Heart of Leadership

Quotes From This Episode

• Philosopher Max Scheler "describes what he calls the 'arriviste.' And he's really describing Hitler...he describes the social phenomena that allow for leaders like that to emerge and use resentment as a way of gaining power."
• "If you think of what leaders do, they're people who take responsibility for something...it's fundamental for moral accountability."
• (Nelson Mandela wrote) 'they don't see me. They see me as a saint. But I'm only a saint who is a sinner who keeps on trying.' And so I think the same could be said of som

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