Katherine A. Nelson Kate Nelson is a consultant, teacher, and author who specializes in ethics program design and strategic organizational communication. Kate is a senior fellow in ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and is currently teaching business ethics at Wharton Executive Education and to executive MBA students at the University of Delaware. After a career on the corporate side, she has consulted on ethics and communications for 15 years — in large and small consulting firms. For four years, she was a principal and communication practice leader for Mercer HR Consulting in Philadelphia, where she managed the 19-person department delivering communication services to clients of Mercer's Philadelphia, Princeton, and Rochester (New York) offices. Earlier, she was a vice president and head of worldwide HR communications at Citicorp in New York City and held similar positions at Merrill Lynch and at Honeywell. Kate has been a guest speaker on ethics and values at many conferences and organizations including the Conference Board, World@Work, Society for Human Resources Managers, Young Presidents’ Organization, the Ethics Officer’s Association, and Wharton Executive Education. She has designed and/or conducted ethics training programs for numerous business schools including Harvard, University of Chicago, Columbia, Vanderbilt, NYU, MIT, Temple, and Northwestern; and for numerous organizations, including: General Electric, J.P. Morgan, Prudential Securities, AC Nielsen, SmithKline Beecham, Citibank, Dupont, Martin Marietta, NYNEX, Philip Morris, and NASA. An ethics game that Kate created at Citicorp, The Work Ethic, was awarded the Gold Quill of Excellence by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1987, and was featured in numerous media, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Fortune. Communications she created have been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, the Art Directors Guild, the IABC, and have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. She received her B.A. from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York City and has been affiliated with Wharton since 1991. She is co-author, with Penn State University professor, Linda Klebe Trevino, of Managing Business Ethics (John Wiley, 3rd edition, 2003). Kate also is a 2002 graduate of Leadership, Inc., a Philadelphia organization that mobilizes the private sector on behalf of the community and trains executives to serve on boards of directors.