Greetings! I hope your New Year is well begun and that 2022 will bring good things for all of us.
I am writing now with: - First, some personal news about a change in my affiliation: I am retiring from University of Virginia Darden School of Business as of 25 May 2022, but I will continue to share Giving Voice to Values (GVV) via lectures, train-the-trainers, consulting, program design and personal support. I simply will be operating more independently. See item no. 1 below for more about this.
- Second, some reassurances about the continuing and unchanged availability of the GVV materials and initiatives: frankly, nothing much will likely change from outside user perspectives as I have ensured a permanent home for GVV at UVA Darden so you can continue to access the curriculum materials and you can access more information at the UVA Darden GVV website. You can also stay connected through my own website, and you can continue to email me at GentileM@darden.virginia.edu for the foreseeable future. See item no. 2 below and/or contact me for more info about how to publish GVV cases or translate existing materials in the Collection; about the GVV book series; about the customizable GVV MOOC from Coursera; about the customizable series of interactive online social cohort-based modules from Nomadic.fm; and about so much more.
- Third, an invitation to be part of a referral network for all of you who have used or are interested in learning more about/using "Giving Voice To Values" (GVV) in your own lives; in your teaching and curriculum development; in your organizations and management; in your consulting; and/or in your research and writing. I invite you to be in touch; let me know what your experience with GVV has been and what you may be interested in doing more of in the future (teaching, curriculum development, consulting, training, research, publishing, etc.). See item no. 3 below for more information on this invitation.
1. First the personal news:
I have spent the past 15 years of my life developing and sharing GVV around the world, across professions and educational settings. I have been incredibly gratified by the many educators, managers, leaders and learners who have taken up the GVV concepts and used them, expanded upon them, improved them, spread them around the globe.
I am writing to let you know about a shift in my own life and let you know how you can continue to use and build upon GVV – and to invite you to do so.
I will be retiring from my role as Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in the Spring of 2022. I will continue to share GVV via lectures, train-the-trainers, consulting, program design and personal support, but I will be operating more independently.
2. Reassurances about the continuing and unchanged availability of the GVV materials and initiatives:
I have ensured a permanent home for GVV at UVA Darden so you can continue to access the curriculum materials and you can access information at the UVA Darden GVV website. You can also stay connected through my own website www.MaryGentile.com, and you can continue to email me at GentileM@darden.virginia.edu for the foreseeable future.
Frankly, nothing much will likely change from outside user perspectives but I did want to reassure folks that:
- As I noted above, the curriculum will continue to be available from Darden Business Publishing.
- The GVV Book Series from Routledge/Greenleaf will continue to grow with new co-editors: Professor Brian Moriarty at UVA Darden, Professor Dann Arce at University of Texas-Dallas and Professor Emeritus Jerry Goodstein at Washington State University.
- The GVV Elective, "Leadership When It Really Counts," will continue to be taught at UVA Darden by Professor Brian Moriarty and I will continue to guest lecture as appropriate. (The syllabus is available from Darden Business Publishing.)
- New cases will continue to be added to the curriculum as faculty (including you, hopefully!) develop them and they will be made available at the GVV webpage at Darden Business Publishing. I invite any of you who have an idea for a new case – or if you wish to translate any of the existing materials – to be in touch with me for now, and later with Brian Moriarty and/or Steve Momper at Darden Business Publishing to discuss case ideas and processes. FYI, there will be eight new cases forthcoming on GVV and Tech Ethics issues in 2022. Watch for them.
- The GVV MOOC is available at Coursera. And we have worked with different professions and organizations (e.g., engineering, Health and Safety) to customize it for their use; this option will continue to be available.
- The interactive online social cohort-based modules based on GVV will continue to be available from Nomadic.fm and these can also be customized and/or translated as appropriate. See Plans | Nomadic Learning.
- And I expect that the occasional GVV e-newsletter will be coming out from UVA Darden but I invite you to contact me if you have any questions or ideas.
- I will be available to provide information and support and to offer lectures, consulting, train-the-trainer events, and so on.
3. Now to the invitation:
I am writing to you because you have been a user of GVV and/or expressed interest in the approach.
As I plan this next phase, I want to connect with you. As you know, my deepest commitment and hope has been to ensure that GVV can continue to be available to interested users and can continue to grow, expand, deepen and influence educators and practitioners across professions and industries.
I have intentionally designed GVV as something that can be available to and used by many. I didn't want it to be "held closely" or to simply build a consulting practice around it. I see GVV as an IDEA – powerful and accessible – and believe that no one "owns" ideas. So I have tried to catalyze others to build on the work and I believe that has actually happened – with faculty, with companies, with publishers, with other authors and researchers, etc. For these reasons, I do believe that the GVV work can and will continue since so many use it, very often without my knowing about it.
And I want to explicitly invite and encourage you to participate in this growth and development of GVV. There are many ways you can do this: - Using the GVV approach in your existing courses and developing new GVV-style cases and other curricular materials, if you are an educator.
- Using GVV in your consulting with organizations that are interested in developing training initiatives and management practices that encourage the development of "Moral Muscle Memory" through the GVV process of pre-scripting, action planning, rehearsal and peer coaching.
- Offering presentations on GVV with different audiences.
- Translating GVV materials into other languages.
- Collaborating on the customization of the GVV MOOC or the Nomadic modules for different companies, organizations, professions, etc.
- Doing research on the use and impacts of GVV in teaching and training.
- Publishing on the potential of GVV for different professions and functional areas and topics (DEI, Sustainability, etc.)
- Contributing new books to the GVV Book Series from Routledge/Greenleaf.
I am deeply grateful for all the contributions you have already made to Giving Voice To Values and I want you to know that I will continue to be available to you to offer any support that I can.
Finally, if you would like me to keep you in mind for possible referrals, please do send me a note describing your interest in GVV and your experience using it thus far.
Thank you,
Mary Gentile | |