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Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy


Through his practical, engaging and entertaining presentations on high-character leadership, Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy®, inspires company leaders to do the right thing every time. "High-character leadership is the key to financial success in business," Bruce says.

He is the CEO of the Institute for High-Character Leadership and writes the weekly Forbes online column, Profiles in High-Character Leadership.

Bruce does a recurring ethics segment on the top-rated morning news program in New York City, and he has discussed high-character leadership in business on CNN, NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNBC’s Fast Money and Power Lunch, Fox Business's Cavuto and Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends.

Société Generale, CRH, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, All State Insurance, Astellas Pharma, the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, The Home Depot, Northrop Grumman, the National Football League, and the South Carolina National Guard have been among Bruce’s many clients.

Bruce received his B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan awarded Bruce a National Fellowship in leadership development.

He lives in New York City with his wife Kristen Bancroft, who is a compliance professional in the financial services industry and was a contestant on Jeopardy. Bruce maintains the website, TheEthicsGuy.com.