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The Services
It is sometimes surprising how general ideas can influence our thinking, our life, and our way of doing business. To refresh our mental batteries we sometimes need to take time out and consider some challenging ideas. That is one of the main aims of the workshops and talks that I offer.
In the past I have spoken on a variety of subjects to different groups (see below for a list of Past Speaking Engagements). I can therefore offer to speak on a wide range of subjects to your organization: Practical Ethics and Moral Intelligence; Ethics in Business, the Media, Politics, the Professions; Globalization, Open Markets & Social Markets, Technological Change, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, The Science Ethic; The Knowledge Economy, Intellectual Property, The Communications Age; Public affairs & Democracy, Philosophy & society. There will be generous time for discussion and questions at any talk.
I also offer 2 day 1 day or 1/2 day workshops on these or related topics. Workshops go beyond speaking engagements. They involve the client's active participation, in discussions, role playing, and perhaps the creative arts. There is usually some prior reading as well.
Longer mini-courses are also available (see the Teaching Services page).
Please contact me about your interests in these services. There may be ways in which I can be of assistance. Rates are available on request.
Possible Topics for Talks, Workshops
- If technocrats and professionals know their stuff, then why are so many people upset about them?
- What's so bad about making money?
- Is Trade the foundation of Ethics?
- What's so wrong about rising to the top? Especially if you deserve it?
- Reciprocity, the alternative to Self Interest
- Is Technological Change good for our health?
- Has the Communications Age gone too far?
- Why all the fuss about privacy, no body knows what it means & you never had any anyways?
- People will talk. Or, why Communication is good for you
- What's wrong with Surviving? or Winning?
- Is Politics one of the noblest human practices?
- Are Rights Merely Something Some People Demand of Others?
- Saving the Planet - Free Market Democracy or a Benevolent Dictatorship?
- Why do people try to deny that we're animals? Is this good for our health?
- Are Results More Important than Process?
- Should we take Short term Gains Now, Rather than wait for the Long Term?
- Change is Good. You Go First.
- Should we Go with the Flow or Preserve the Past?
- Uncertainty and Insecurity are the Human Condition.
- Times, Spaces, Populations & Gods--New Paths in Philosophy
- You Scratch my back, & I'll scratch yours: the basis of Ethics.
- Talking, Dealing & Compromising, and a Moral Politics.
- What's so great about psychological navel-gazing? Or, why living well trumps self-knowledge.
- Are Brains machines or organic forms of Artificial Intelligence?
- Are Good Moral Practices much Different than Sound Social Values?
- If you Identify a Problem, should you Propose a Solution Too?
- Is Rational Man not only Stupid, but Dangerous too?
- Do the Media scare you as much as they scare me?
- Why do so many well educated, over paid academics promote so much Anti-Intellectual Obscurantism?
- Could the main problem with education be that tenure and high salaries for profs & teachers, are encouraging the wrong things?
Past Speaking Engagements
- Intellectual Property and the Entrepreneurial Academe. York University Brown Bag Lecture. 21 January, 2003.
- Ethics in Business. Georgian Learning Institute, Collingwood, Ontario. 8 October, 1999.
- The I of the Storm-Ethics in Politics. Georgian Learning Institute, Collingwood, Ontario. 29 October, 1999
- The Social Market and Social Democracy. Social Marketing and Entrepreneurship Institute. Centra Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand. 15 April, 1998
- Information System Ethics. Presented to the Graduate School of Management in The University of Western Australia, in Perth, Australia. 3 April, 1998.
- Ethical Problem-Solving in Business. Presented to the Department of Management of The University of Newcastle, in Newcastle, Australia. 8 April, 1998.
- Environmental Ethics in Technical Settings. To environmental technicians and local environmental technical personnel. Sault College, Eliot Lake. Campus. 25 January, 1995.
- Environmental Policy: An Approach Appropriate to Developing Countries. (Manejo Ambiental: Un Enfoque Apropriado a Paises en Desarollo.) INMADI. The Institute for Investigation into the Environment and Industrial Development. (Instituto y Investigacion Sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarollo Industrial). Museo de la Nacion. Lima, Peru. 6 May, 1994 .
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Management in Mining. (Desarollo Sustenible y Manejo Ambiental en la Mineria.) The National Club for Mining and Petroleum in Peru (Sociedad Nacional de la Mineria y Petroleo de Peru). Lima, Peru. 4 May, 1994.
- Ethics and Controlling Technological Systems. National Association for Science, Technology and Society 6th Annual Technological Literacy Conference. Washington DC. 2 February, 1991.
- Ethics in Technology Management. MBA Women's Association of Toronto, Toronto. 21 February, 1991.
- Training and Literacy. Sudbury Skills and Training Network. Cambrian College. Sudbury, Ontario. 11 December, 1991.
- Biomedical Waste and Environmental Ethics. Sudbury and District Medical Association. 21 November, 1991.
- Professional Ethics in Occupational Health and Safety. Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario. Annual meeting. 28 March, 1990.
- Privacy in the Information Age: do you have any? Talk sponsored by the Centre for Society, Technology and Values. University of Waterloo. 16 January, 1990.
- Innis on Oral and Literate cultures. Culture and Technology Literacy Series. McLuhan Program, University of Toronto. 1 April, 1985.
Workshops Given
- Ethical Issues in Technological Change. Organizational Values and Ethics Workshop Series. Stephen Maguire, Director. Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa. 12-13 February , 2003.
- Ethical Problem Solving Workshop. Presented at IIPE/EPAC Conference. Ottawa. 28 September, 2001
- Human Resource Management and Ethical Problem-Solving. Presented to the New Zealand Association of Human Resource Professionals. At University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand. 25 May, 1998.
- Business and Society in the 21st Century. Co-leader of workshop with Sandra Waddock. International Association of Business and Society. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. 11 June, 1998.
- EthicScan Conference For Ethics Officers And Practitioners: Ethics Essentials 1995. Co-Presenter with David Nitkin and Len Brooks of EthicScan. 12 June, 1995.
- Enhancing Ethical Management in Canadian Corporations: Trends, Techniques, Challenges. Co Presenter with David Nitkin, Suzanne Jackson and David Powell of EthicScan. 22 November, 1994.
- Media Ethics. Presented at the Canadian Radio Television News Directors Association, annual conference. Sudbury. 15 May, 1988.
- Ethics Management. For the Canadian Society for Association Executives. Annual Convention. St. John, N.B. 12 August, 1987.
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For more information please contact me at the address below.
Vincent Di Norcia
4 Irish Lane
Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M 6H8
Phone: (705) 725 1280
Email: vdn@dinorcia.net
"Everything Flows." -Heraclitus