Business Ethics Alliance Announces CEO, Executive Director Transition

Beverly Kracher, Ph.D., founder, CEO, and executive director of the Business Ethics Alliance (www.businessethicsalliance.org), officially stepped aside at the end of May. The transition had been in the works for more than a year.

“I feel great pride when I think about the innovative and impactful ways that the Business Ethics Alliance have delivered business ethics education to our Greater Omaha community and beyond,” Kracher said. “The Alliance is strong. We have established Greater Omaha as a beacon of business ethics. New leadership creates the positive change that enables continued growth.”

On June 1, Patrick Leahy stepped up from director of resources and development to be the Alliance’s interim executive director. Eve McLain, the Alliance’s director of education, will continue to serve as a resource for Alliance community programs and organizational ethics products and services. This summer, the governing board will perform a search for a permanent executive director.

Kracher will continue to hold the Robert B. Daugherty Chair in Business, Ethics & Society in Creighton’s Heider College, and expand her work as an ethicist with students, research colleagues, and business practitioners alike. Furthermore, she will serve as senior ethicist for the Alliance.

The Greater Omaha Alliance for Business Ethics at Creighton University—the Business Ethics Alliance—is the nation’s leading nonprofit dedicated to city-level business ethics education. Learn more online at www.businessethicsalliance.org.