Ann Skeet

Senior Director, Leadership Ethics
408-554-5466
408 489 5399
askeet@scu.edu
Twitter: @leaderethics

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, with a particular interest in healthy corporate culture, corporate governance, ethical leadership practices, and well-being, all grounded in an emphasis on human flourishing. She teaches ethics literacy for boards in the Silicon Valley Executive Education Center in the Leavey School of Business.

Ann 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 in San Jose.

Ann graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, where she earned a bachelor of arts in economics and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School, where she received a dean’s graduation prize for her service to the school community. She spent an undergraduate semester at the London School of Economics. During college, she volunteered with the Christian Appalachian Project, an interdenominational nonprofit and with Crisis at Christmas in London, an organization that served the city’s homeless population. She spent her early career working in outside plant for C&P Telephone Company (now Verizon) in the Washington, D.C. area. 

Skeet is a member of the steering committee for the Responsible Use of Technology at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the 4^th Industrial Revolution and served on the Partnership on AI’s Working Group on AI, Labor and the Economy. 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 developed tools, such as a model for The Practice of Ethical Leadership, and resources for managing culture, to help leaders understand, discuss, and positively influence their corporate cultures and business practices. She published an academic journal article on Managing organizational ethics: How ethics becomes pervasive in organizations, and several white papers with collaborators at the World Economic Forum and the Partnership on AI, and she launched the Ethics Center’s social sector ethics program. She writes about issues facing leaders across sectors regularly for her blog, Benison: The Practice of Ethical Leadership, and other media outlets, and is a frequent media commentator and panelist.

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. She is an advisory council member for Harvard Business Review.