S1E22 - Professor Garrett MacSweeney: Ethics, Theatre, and How To Build Trust

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 10:45 p.m.

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"Instead of teaching ethical theories, you need to teach people how to think" - Garrett MacSweeney

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About Garrett MacSweeney

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Garrett MacSweeney is Co-Founder and Principal of Choice Point Solutions (choicepoint.ca), a boutique firm specializing in customized mini-simulations for augmenting organizational training. A formally trained organizational ethicist, Garrett specializes in issues pertaining to leadership, decision-making, conduct, conflicts of interest, and strategic stakeholder management. As a management consultant, he has acted as a subject matter expert for the Governments of Ontario and Alberta, and has helped private businesses develop and implement policy and programs to improve corporate culture, operations, and performance.

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Garrett is a Fellow of both the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University and McLaughlin College, the public policy college at York University. He has been affiliated with the Ted Rogers School of Management since 2014, teaching Regulation, Government, and Socially Responsible Management in the Ted Rogers MBA, and Ethics in Commerce and Business Decision Making in the Law and Business program.

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Previously, Garrett taught Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, and Applied Ethics, along with an honours seminar on Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, in the Department of Philosophy at York University. Garrett held a Graduate Fellowship at The Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security at Osgoode Hall Law School, and was a Board Member at the York Centre for Practical Ethics, where he co-authored a book on ethics for public management from Nelson Press. He has guest lectured at the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, was editorial manager for the Journal Criminal Law and Philosophy, and was a member of the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network.

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Garrett holds an Hon. B.A. (Saint Mary\\u2019s University) and M.A. (York University) in philosophy, and is completing a Ph.D. (ABD) dissertation on white-collar crime and the criminal law.

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Connect With Garrett 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-macsweeney-52891933/

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Twitter: @MacSweeneyG

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Website: https://choicepoint.ca/

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