Senior Director, Leadership Ethics
408-554-5466
askeet@scu.edu
Ann (Gregg) Skeet is the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical dilemmas of leaders and followers and business ethics, with a particular interest in healthy corporate culture, corporate governance, and ethical leadership practices, all grounded in an emphasis on human flourishing. Her research explored how to make ethics pervasive in organizations and she has authored resources for managing culture. She teaches ethics literacy for boards in the Silicon Valley Executive Education Center in the Leavey School of Business. Skeet is a co-author of “Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap” and "Voting for Ethics: A Guide for U.S. Voters Second Edition."
Skeet served as CEO of American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley for 8 years and worked for a decade as a Knight Ridder executive, serving the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Newspapers as Vice President of Marketing. She was also president of Notre Dame High School San Jose.
Skeet was a member of the steering committee for the Responsible Use of Technology at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution where she co-authored a white paper on designing ethics into organizations. She has also served on the Partnership on AI’s Working Group on AI, Labor and the Economy where she co-authored a paper offering a Framework for Workforce Well-being in the AI-integrated Workplace. She participates in an academic discussion group on AI and the Political, Economic and Social concerns involving the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture.
Skeet has been published, interviewed, or mentioned in media including Al Jazeera, Associated Press, CEO magazine, CGTN American, Forbes, Fortune.com, Gizmodo, KCSB, KGO-TV, KNGU, Marketwatch, NBC Bay Area, NPR, The New York Times, recode, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, the World Economic Forum website, the Young Leaders of Americas initiative, ZDNet, and on various podcasts.
Skeet earned a bachelor of arts in economics from Bucknell University and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School. She spent an undergraduate semester at the London School of Economics. Skeet spent her early career working in outside plant for C&P Telephone Company (now Verizon) in the Washington, D.C. area.
In the Silicon Valley community, Ann has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the Silicon Valley Directors Exchange; the Institute for Sports Law and Ethics; the Catholic Community Foundation of Santa Clara County; and as a chair for United Way of Silicon Valley and American Musical Theatre San Jose.
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