Seminar Moderator Leigh Hafrey

Leigh Hafrey has worked as a teacher, journalist, and consultant in international development, communication, and professional ethics.  Over the past 18 years, Hafrey has taught courses in communication at the Harvard Business School, Arthur D. Little's Management Education Institute, and the MIT Sloan School of Management.  Since 1992, he has also worked in professional ethics, with a focus on ethics and management, teaching courses at Harvard and MIT Sloan and consulting with professional groups in medicine, architecture, law, and business, in the U.S. and abroad.

Principal Teaching and Administrative Appointments
Since 1995, Hafrey has been Senior Lecturer in the Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT Sloan, teaching regularly in the MBA, MIT-China, and Leaders For Manufacturing programs.  He has also taught in MIT's Industrial Liaison, Management of Technology, Nanyang Fellows, Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership, and System Design and Management programs.  Together with his wife, Sandra Naddaff, Hafrey is also co-Master of Mather House, one of the 12 residential complexes in Harvard College.

Other Affiliations
In the late 1990s, Hafrey served as a core committee member of the Brandeis Seminars in Humanities and the Professions, part of the Brandeis University Int'l Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life.  In 1997, he was a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, participating in panels on leadership and cultural diversity and moderating a seminar in ethics at the WEF Davos Annual Meeting.  For the past decade, Hafrey has moderated the Aspen Institute's Executive Seminar in values-based leadership and other seminars sponsored by the Institute; in 2007, he also served as guest moderator at the Arden Institute of Shakespeare & Co., in Lenox, Mass.

Publications
A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, Hafrey has published book translations from French and German and reporting, essays, reviews, and interviews in The New York Times and other American and European periodicals.  He writes an ethics column for IPA's Business Today, a quarterly magazine for small to medium-sized businesses, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal Philosophy of Management (U.K.) and the Journal of Business Ethics Education (U.S.).  His book on how people use story to articulate ethical norms, The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business, appeared in September 2005 with Other Press.

Education
Hafrey holds an A.B. in English from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.