Part 2: The History of E-Cubed

1. Part 2: The History of E-Cubed A Love Story

2. Thousands of Ivory Tower Academics with Consulting Firms • Why Do We Need Another? • Because Ethics are the key to Quality Decision Making. • Because I Didn’t and Couldn’t Have Learned that Lesson at School • Because Unethical Behavior is so commonplace we don’t even pay attention to it.

3. We teach Deception and Lying • In our homes; • In our schools; • In our sports; • On our jobs; • In our businesses; • In our social activities; • In our governments; • In our non-profit organizations We Teach it Everywhere

4. Who Pays the Cost of Unethical Decision Making? • The Recurring personal and professional crises we face are a direct result of Unethical Decision Making. Lying and deception create fear, anger, and alienation. • Penn State, Wall Street bailouts; Enron; sex scandals, government corruption; athletic wrongdoing; etc. • No matter how successful in the SHORT term, In the long term, decision making ground in anger and fear ALWAYS Fails • Who is Hurt the most? Our Future Generations (our children) become Endangered when Decisions Made with lies and deception, acting out of fear/anger, without sufficient love and compassion.

5. Collateral Damage of My Wars Do you have any collateral damage from yours?

6. How Do We Stop Escalating Unethical Conflict?We Pay Attention to It! • We teach the value of ethics as it relates to quality decision making and purpose; • We teach a method of ethical communication that can help us achieve better decisions and purpose; • We teach how to recognize the relationship of acting ethically in our personal lives where we find love, compassion, and forgiveness to our professional, political, and all organizational decision making.

7. The Louisville Project • A revolutionary 12 year “experiment” by creating a predominately black debate team on a predominately white campus as a diversity initiative for competition in highly technical and specialized college debate community; • As a Director of a program, increased our budget over 10 fold in a four year period, from about $40,000 to over $500,000; • Created an entire new style of debate that required a heightened emphasis on persuasion hat called into question the ethics of interscholastic debate.

8. Accomplishments • Significant academic controversy about our methods, including dissertations, novels, and featured in several documentaries about high school and college debate; • Significant positive public relations and media for our accomplishments not just as a “Black” debate team, but as a team challenging the anti-rhetorical norms and procedures of debate; • Non-competitive successes like a high recruiting, retention, and graduation numbers of a highly diverse population of students, including not only race, but gender, sexual orientation, and religion as well;

9. Accomplishments • Recipient of the Don Brownlee “Outstanding Educator of the Year Award” in 2004; • Recipient of the University of Louisville Multicultural Teaching Award in 2008; • Recipient of the Porter Scholar’s Professor of the Year Award in 2009.

10. How Those Lessons Create E-Cubed Consulting • Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness is just as important in effective organizational decision-making, whether winning a competition, making profits, or fighting for social change. • Lacking these values, poor long term decision making results that hurts the futures of our children. • E-Cubed uses ethical engagement (a focus on the truth with consideration of love, compassion, and forgiveness) using organizational narratives as the method to achieve more effective decision making.