Vincent Fairfax Fellowship™
Ethical leadership is a constant challenge in modern organisations. At the Centre for Ethical Leadership (CEL) at Melbourne Business School (MBS), we believe that the greatest barrier to ethical leadership is not a lack of individual character, but rather the lack of a framework for understanding what it means to act as an ethical leader and how to provide this leadership in complex and dynamic situations.
The Vincent Fairfax Fellowship™ offered through CEL provides this framework for senior leaders and applies it in the development of the moral reasoning skills and leadership capabilities that make Fellows more effective ethical leaders.
The MBS Centre for Ethical Leadership was established in 2010 with the mission of building ethical leadership capabilities across the different sectors in Australian society through teaching, research and community engagement programs.
The Centre’s programs target change at three levels:
- The development of individual ethical leadership capabilities of program participants;
- Building more effective and more ethical cultures, systems and processes in the host organizations of program participants and industry partners; and
- Engaging our program participants and leaders in our industry partners in ongoing cross- sectoral conversations and learning about ethical leadership.
The flagship teaching program of the Centre is the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship™, which provides a small and select group of senior leaders the opportunity to produce significant change at the personal, organizational and community level.
