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Speaker KEITH T. DARCY Subjects business ethics & corporate responsibility    Video Clip

Keith T. Darcy is President of the Center for Integrity, and advises boards and presidential executives on business ethics and corporate governance. Until recently, Darcy served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Office of the President of IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company (IBJW), NYC.  In that capacity was responsible for strategic planning, human resources, legal, corporate governance, audit, risk management, ethics, compliance, marketing, communications and administration.  
 
Darcy has combined a 30-year career in the financial services industry with his profession as an educator and his long-term involvement in business ethics, corporate governance and organizational leadership.  In the financial services industry he has extensive and broad-based senior-level experiences.  For fourteen years he was a senior executive Marine Midland Bank, N.A. where he headed both consumer banking and corporate finance groups as well as several senior staff positions.  In the mid-1990’s, Darcy helped Prudential Securities Inc. establish the first Ethics Office among Wall Street firms.  Prior to that, Darcy was Chief Executive Officer of an insurance company jointly owned by General Reinsurance Corporation and Frank B. Hall & Company, and served as CEO of a related derivatives trading company.
 
Darcy teaches Ethics & Leadership in the Executive Programs at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  Darcy is also a Teaching Fellow at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, where he teaches business ethics.  In addition, Darcy is Executive-in-Residence at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, where he wrote the curriculum for, and teaches in, the Masters of Science Program in Organizational Leadership.  Darcy also is an Executive Fellow of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, MA.  Darcy previously served as Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Business at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he taught courses in The Social Responsibility of Business.  At Georgetown, Darcy was also Director of the Center for International Executive Education.
 
Darcy served as President & CEO of the Leadership Group Inc., a nonprofit organization originally formed as The Foundation for Leadership Quality & Ethics Practice.  The Leadership Group Inc. worked closely with executives from Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, professional associations, and universities in the areas of ethics, leadership and organizational performance.
 
Darcy is Chairman of the Board of the Better Business Bureau Foundation, which supports the Better Business Bureau of New York.  Additionally he is Director Emeritus of the Ethics Officer Association, based in Belmont, MA, where he remains an active member and advisor.  He is also Vice Chairman of the Center for Values-Based Leadership headquartered in Fairfield, CT.  Darcy has also long played an active role with the Caux Round Table, based in Caux, Switzerland.  The Caux Round Table, which has Secretariats in Japan, Europe, and the United States, is a group of world business leaders concerned with the role and responsibilities of business in society. 
 
Darcy holds a B.S. degree from Fordham University's College of Business, an M.B.A from the Hagan Graduate School of Business at Iona College, and has done additional post-graduate study at New York Theological Seminary. 
 
Mr. Darcy has contributed his expertise to numerous books including The Change Management Handbook (Irwin Press) and A Companion to Business Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford).  He is on the Editorial Board of At Work: Stories of Tomorrow's Workplace, is featured in Survival Skills for the Financial Services Industry (John Wiley & Sons), Winning the People Wars (Financial Times-Prentice Hall), The Ethical Edge (Mastermedia Publishers), The Portable Executive (Simon and Schuster), Merchants of Vision (Berret Koehler Publishers), and Career Crossroads (Workworld Press) and is widely published, quoted and referenced in newspapers and magazines.  Over the years, he has been a keynote speaker and panelist in hundreds of venues.  His biography is included in Who's Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Who's Who in American Education among others.
 

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