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Happy New Year! Giving Voice to Values continues to grow rapidly and globally, and we gratefully share recent developments below.

New here? See our two-page overview of GVV's history and resources (PDF).

Book Proposals: If you have proposal ideas for GVV-related books in the Giving Voice To Values Book Series from Routledge, please contact Brian Moriarty. For a list of recently published volumes in the GVV Book Series and a list of exciting new volumes in process, see the end of this newsletter.

Please send newsletter submissions to: GVV@darden.virginia.edu

Highlights

WEBINARS, LECTURES, & PRESENTATIONS

• "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership" by Mary C. Gentile. U.S. Values Alliance, 28 January 2026.
• "Giving Voice to Values; An Innovative Approach to Accelerating Change in Healthcare" by John Heiser. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RSCI) Educational Hub, 3 December 2025.
• "Raising Values-Based Leaders: The GVV Africa Approach to Ethical Leadership," by Freda Addu Dzradosi, Lenny Baer, Liyabona Nqumani and Tiiseto Mhasi. Education Collaborative, 25 November 2025.
• Mary C. Gentile participated as a panelist in,"Physician Leadership for Tomorrow's Complexities: An Innovative Approach to Early Clinical Education," at the International Leadership Association Annual Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 16 October 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values: An Innovative Approach to Accelerating Change in Healthcare" by John Heiser, PhD, MBA, JD;  Director, LEAD@Lahey Pathway; Assistant Dean, Leadership and Faculty Development;  UMass Chan-Lahey Department of Medicine. Charles University, Prague, 14 October 2025.  
• Guest Lectures by Mary C. Gentile. Ethical Leadership Seminar, Notre Dame University, Mendoza College of Business, 29 September 2025.
• Guest Lecture by Mary C. Gentile. "Social Impact Communications," Rutgers Online Graduate Course taught by Zach Langway, Fall, 2025.
• "Webinar on "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership" by Mary C. Gentile for Protecting Your Practice: Building an Ethical Firm Culture, Preventing Internal Fraud, and Confronting Misconduct, myLawCLE.com, 28 August 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. NASA LEADS Program, 8 July 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. ABEN (Australian Business Ethics Network), 13 June 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. L'Oreal World Network of Ethics Correspondents, L'Oreal Group, 25 June 2025.
• "Story-Telling for Corporate Social Intrapreneurs" by Mary C. Gentile. First Movers Seminar, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, 6 June 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values: The 'How' of Values-Driven Leadership Development by Mary C. Gentile. Bentley Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop, Bentley University and Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, 2 June 2025.
• "The Active Learning Curriculum of the LEAD@Lahey Leadership Pathway Program–Leadership Ethics module and the Giving Voice to Values Model in Medical Education" was presented by John Heiser and other faculty from University of Massachusetts Chan-Lahey Medical School. 2025 AAMC Regional Medical Campus Conference, June, 2025.

PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA, AND ARTICLE MENTIONS/DISCUSSIONS OF GVV

• "Do We Agree on These?" by Mary Gentile, The Renovator, 20 December 2025.
• "Practicing Courage – How Values Become Action," interview with Mary C. Gentile by Michael Koehler, On the Balcony, 16 December 2025.
• "How to Do the Right Thing: Knowing your values is one thing; it's acting on them that's the real challenge" by Mary C. Gentile. The Renovator, 6 December 2025.
• "Giving Voice to Values to Increase Organizational Results," interview with Mary C. Gentile by Alice Alessandri and Alberto Aleo, UpDa[y]te, 10 November 2025.
• "No 11: Giving Voice to Values," interview with Mary C. Gentile by Neil Hawkes, Noble Conversations, 6 November 2025.
• "The Inquisitor: We Need Ethics Muscle Memory," interview with Mary C. Gentile by Robert Huebscher, Portfolio Construction Forum, 4 November 2025.
• "Reviving academic integrity: Part II - What even is cheating, and why shouldn't we do it?" by Joanna Kenty. Humanist. 4 November 2025.
• "When and How to Respond to Controversial Topics in the Workplace" by Jessica McManus Warnell, Adam Kronk and Mary Gentile. University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business "News and Events," 24 October 2025.
• GVV content is featured in "Communicating Our Values with Integrity for Sustainable Progress and Development" by Anny Tubbs, Catalyst Prospectus, 15 June 2025 [PDF].
• GVV content is featured in "Giving Voice to Values Requires Rehearsal...and Narrative Imagination" by Margaret Heffernan, On the Level with Margaret Heffernan, Substack, 26 May 2025.  
• GVV content is featured in "Where Are Our Business Leaders?" by Judith Samuelson, LinkedIn, 15 May 2025.
• GVV is featured in "Inner Compass – A Spotlight on Dr. Mary Gentile," Purposeful Empathy LinkedIn Newsletter by Anita Nowak, 12 March 2025.
• GVV is included in Viewbook: Putting i5 Into Practice (2024) published by the Principles for Responsible Education, an initiative supported by the United Nations. 
• "12 Ideas for Fostering Belonging and Collaboration in local news organizations" by Caitlin Dewey and Jan Ross Sakian, API's Better News (American Press Institute), 13 August 2024.
• GVV is discussed in Making Work Matter: How to Create Positive Change in Your Company and Meaning in Your Career by Nancy McGaw, Royal Oak Press, 7 May 2024.
• "Connecting Voice to Organisational Integrity," (Chapter 27) by Brett Beasley with Mary C. Gentile, in Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity, edited by Muel Kapstein. (Edward Elgar: 2024). 
• "Book Review of Giving Voice to Values," by Evgeny Popov in "Evgeny's Substack," (April 2024). 
• "The Human Economy: Creating Resilience through Human-Centric Systems" by Line Lorenzen. Global Peter Drucker Forum on LinkedIn, 29 February 2024.
• "The Practical Uses of Hope: Giving Voice to Values" by Mary C. Gentile. Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing, Summer/August 2023.
• Foreword by Mary C. Gentile. In Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting: Text and Cases, 6th Edition by Steven Mintz and William Miller. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2023.
• "Giving Voice to Values as an Enabling Pedagogy for Digital Ethics," by Adriana Krasniansky and Mary C. Gentile. In The Future of Responsible Management Education: University Leadership and the Digital Transformation Challenge, edited by Christian Hauser and Wolfgang Amann. Humanism in Business Series. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, May 2023.
• "Finding Meaning in Work" by Mary C. Gentile, Innovations: Technology, Governance & Globalization (A Quarterly Journal Published by MIT Press.) Volume 13, Issue 3/4, 60-63. Spring 2023.
• "An Empirical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundation of the Giving Voice to Values Pedagogy" by William F. Miller, Tara J. Shawver and Steven M. Mintz. Accounting Education, 6 March 2023.
• GVV is featured in, "Business Schools Must Teach the Value of Disobedience Over Climate," by Oliver Laasch, Times Higher Education, 28 January 2023.
• Mary Gentile's research is cited in, "An Empirical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundation of the Giving Voice to Values Pedagogy," in Accounting Education, by William F. Miller, Tara J. Shawver and Stephen M. Mintz.
• "Case Study: Does Facial Recognition Tech Enhance Security?" by Mary C. Gentile, David Danks, and Maralee Harrell. Harvard Business Review, November-December 2022.
• "Voice Your Values" by Dr. Judy K. Frels. Insights with Impact, March 28, 2022.
• "Developing Ethical Confidence: The Impact of Action-Oriented Ethics Instruction in an Accounting Curriculum" by Anne Christensen, Jane Cote and Claire Kamm Latham. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 153, 1157–1175, 20 December 2016.

CURRICULUM

GVV content is included in the "Reimagining Business Excellence" program for executives from Israel and MENA Region hosted by Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. (Launched August 2025)

Darden Business Publishing is pleased to offer a new series of Tech Ethics cases (listed below). Several of the cases were made possible with a grant to the University of Virginia from the Deloitte Foundation. The full curriculum is available at Darden Business Publishing.

• "Move Fast, but without Bias: Ethical AI Development in a Start-up Culture (A)" (OB-1411) 11 August 2022. Gentile, Mary; Krasniansky, Adriana. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Ethical Programming of Algorithms: How to Deal with Ethical Risks of AI Tools for Hiring Decisions? (A)" (OB-1401) 8 August 2022. Gentile, Mary; Hunkenschroer, Anna Lena. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Recommendation Algorithms and Politics on Social Media (A)" (OB-1399) 28 July 2022. Gentile, Mary; Sloane, Mona. Darden Business Publishing.
• "You Can't Tell Anyone (A)"(OB-1406) 15 July 2022. Gentile, Mary; Moriarty, Brian. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Ubiquitous Surveillance (A)" (OB-1403) 8 July 2022. Gentile, Mary; Danks, David; Harrell, Maralee. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (A)" (OB-1395) 6 June 2022. Gentile, Mary; Warnell, Jessica McManus. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Held Hostage in the 21st Century: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Crisis Management (A)" (OB-1392) 24 May 2022. Gentile, Mary; Feehan, Ross. Darden Business Publishing.
• "Programming a "Fairer" System: Assessing Bias in Enterprise AI Products (A)" (OB-1340) 9 December 2020. Gentile, Mary; Krasniansky, Adriana. Darden Business Publishing.

PROGRAMS

• Mary C. Gentile was named a Founding Member of the Enlightened Enterprise Academy. Learn More
• Mary C. Gentile has been appointed an Advisory Board Member to the Carnegie Council Next Generation Leadership Initiative by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
• "'Giving Voice to Values' by Mary C. Gentile." Executive Coaching course taught by Anna Marie Valerio. New York University, Masters Degree in Psychology, 17 March 2025.
• The Education Collaborative's Giving Voice to Values (GVV) Africa Program is shortlisted for the Nurturing Values and Ethics Award at the 11th Edition of the QS Reimagine Education Awards. Learn More
• The Mastercard Foundation continues to work with "Giving Voice To Values" as part of their leadership programming with a presentation for Africa Country Directors given on 30 September and 29 October 2024.

Books of Note

In the Works for the
Routledge GVV Book Series

The team at Routledge is excited to work with the following authors whose projects have been approved for the series: 

• Trauma-Informed Leadership by Lisa Jones Christensen
• Giving Voice to Values in Higher Education by Michelle Darnell
• Networks of Empowerment: Collectively Giving Voice to Values and Counteracting Persistent and Pervasive Unethical Behavior by Peggy Cunningham and Minette Drumwright
• Leading with Values in a VUCCA World: A Practical Guide to AI Governance by Dr. Colleen Lyons
• The Nine Values-Based Drivers of Selling by Alberto Aleo, Alice Alessandri, Serena Calderoni and Luca Giorgetti