Motivators, coaches weigh in on 'dirty' CEO label

The participants, with PhDs in various fields, gathered this week at a Global conference sponsored by the Milken Institute, a Los Angeles-based think tank which has a mission is to help leaders in business and public policy identify and implement ideas to create broad-based prosperity.

The institute highlighted quotes from the participants on Saturday in a news release about the forum, with the panelists discussing the need for chief executives to seek a “higher cause” for their companies, addressing the issue of pay disparity between CEOs and front-line workers, and hold themselves and their firms accountable to a higher standards.

The 80 minute discussion is available online at the Milken Institute’s website:

Panel presentation: CEO: How Will It Stop Being a Dirty Word?

Panelists:

Sir Ken Robinson - a speaker and consultant who has devised and implemented creative strategies for change in consulting work with government, education, culture and business.

Dr. Oren Harari - a consultant, author and professor of strategic and global management in the Graduate School of business in the University of San Francisco.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith - an author, executive educator and coach.

Rafael Pastor, Chairman of the Board and CEO of executive performance company Vistage International