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Roger Steare
Roger Steare helps boards and leadership teams make better, more ethical decisions. A business ethics and corporate governance speaker, Roger wrote Ethicability, created the MoralDNA character profile, and designed the BP ethics programme mandated by the US Department of Justice.
Roger Steare, known as The Corporate Philosopher, advises boards, executive teams, and regulators on moral reasoning and ethical decision-making, helping organisations move beyond rules-based compliance towards values, character, and better judgement.
Roger is an Associate Professor at Headspring, the Financial Times and IE Business School joint venture, and a former FCA Advisor on Culture and Ethics. His book Ethicability is in its sixth edition, with more than 700,000 digital licences and 25,000 copies sold, and his MoralDNA profile has been taken by over 200,000 people. In 2026 he was appointed a Commissioner to the Institute of Directors' Commission on Business: A Force for Good?
His work has taken him into the boardrooms of Citi, HSBC, Barclays, BT Openreach, Nationwide Building Society, PwC, and the Serious Fraud Office. In 2016, the US Department of Justice mandated his BP ethical leadership programme as part of the $20 billion Consent Agreement that followed the Gulf of Mexico disaster. He is a Fellow of ResPublica and the Royal Society of Arts.
Roger's sessions give leaders a shared language for values and character, a framework for sound decisions under pressure, including decisions made with AI, and the confidence to speak up and do the right thing.
Book Roger for boards and leadership teams who want to make better decisions and stand behind them.
Topics, sessions and talks
Roger Steare looks at what happens to judgement and accountability when AI becomes part of everyday decisions. Drawing on his recent work with Accenture on decision-making with AI, and on the MoralDNA research behind his advisory work, Roger sets out how leaders keep human values and responsibility at the centre of how the technology is designed, bought, and used. Leaders leave with practical questions to test AI-assisted decisions before they're made, and a clearer view of where responsibility sits.
Roger Steare treats moral judgement as a leadership skill that can be trained, much like physical fitness. Using the MoralDNA profile, taken by more than 200,000 people, he shows leaders how they tend to reason through ethical choices, whether through obedience to rules, care for others, or independent reasoning. Drawing on his work with boards at BP, HSBC, and Barclays, the session gives leaders a framework for making difficult decisions and owning them afterwards.
Many hiring processes test for skills and experience first and hope character follows. Roger Steare argues for reversing that order. Drawing on his MoralDNA research and decades advising executive teams, Roger explains how organisations can assess values and integrity during recruitment, why character shapes how people behave under pressure, and how skills can be developed once the right people are in place. HR and leadership teams come away with practical ways to build character into how they hire.
Roger Steare pairs decades of boardroom advisory work, including the BP ethical leadership programme mandated by the US Department of Justice, with his current role as an Associate Professor at Headspring. Leadership audiences get a framework for judgement already tested in regulated, high-stakes organisations.
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