Summary & Highlights
Sue Bethanis hosts Andrew C. M. Cooper, influential executive leader and author of the book The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business.
Andrew lays out a new, practical path for corporations to rethink harmful, outdated models and integrate themselves with the communities that they inevitably affect.
Sue and Andrew discuss:
- Why Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly critical of corporations.
- How a conscientious executive can balance the demands of profitability with the need for ethical leadership.
- Ways the recent election will affect how business executives and managers approach leading with conscience.
- Five practical steps executives can take to “level up” their leadership skills.
Guest Profile
Andrew C.M. Cooper is a Fortune 500 executive, attorney, and board director. He is the Associate General Counsel for strategic transactions and mergers and acquisitions at Meta Platforms, Inc. He also serves on the boards of seven professional and charitable organizations.
Andrew led as a history-making first Millennial and Black executive to serve as general counsel of UPS Airlines, the world’s largest logistics airline, with over 20,000 employees operating in 220 countries. His team was essential to the success of Operation Warp Speed, the United States’ pandemic vaccine relief effort. He helps organizations regain and retain high performance through leadership transformation.
A patent inventor and lecturer, he settled in Roswell, Georgia, with his wife and daughter. The Ethical Imperative is his first published book.
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- 10/25/24
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