About Wade

Wade Chumney is an Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Law at California State University, Northridge. He joined the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics in August 2014. Prior to that he was employed at Georgia Tech as the Cecil B. Day Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Law in the Scheller College of Business since 2009. He was previously an assistant professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Wade also spent five years in private practice before embarking on an academic career.

The primary focus of Wade’s research and teaching is the practical application of business ethics. His intention in teaching is to present a practical understanding of how to apply the principles of ethics in order to benefit your own life. To that end, he has also created an interdisciplinary Business Ethics Minor within the Nazarian College of Business in order to teach experiential aspects of business ethics to students across the entire CSUN campus.

Conscious Business Ethics

Transform Your Life For The Better

“Conscious Business Ethics takes thinking about business ethics a huge step forward.” — Dr. Sandra Waddock, Professor of Management at Boston College

The case for business ethics is both settled and urgent; we are within an era of human history in which the most influential organizations on the planet, businesses, must align their goals with principles of human flourishing, ethics, if humanity is going to experience a more ideal future than what we now know. To accomplish this attainable goal, we must realize that business is composed of individuals who must make the conscious choice to pursue a more ideal future.

In this revolutionary approach to business ethics, Wade Chumney utilizes his nearly 20 years of experience in the field to synthesizes the ancient wisdom found in Plato’s philosophy, the modern findings of positive psychology, and the powerful insights of systems thinking to create a new paradigm for the field. Centered around the consciousness found within each of us, Conscious Business Ethics provides a practical approach that anyone can apply in order to develop the one quality most desired by humanity in any historical era: wisdom.

The common threads found within all wisdom traditions are distilled into simple, understandable concepts and diagrams that make practical application accessible to anyone.

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Insert:Human Podcast

Wade visits the Insert:Human podcast with Chris Colbert to discuss the difference between ethics and business ethics. He reveals how we can understand the systems that govern our world and connect us. He discusses how Plato’s teachings inspired him to write his book and his attempt to modernize ancient philosophical ideas. He shares how living a life based on fear or love determines a person’s path and goals.

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Cutting Edge Consciousness

Wade joins Freeman Michaels for a great conversation about the importance of Business Ethics in organizations. But the conversation goes much deeper – Wade views Business Ethics as a modern day Wisdom Tradition. Check it out!

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Plato’s Cave

The Purpose of Education

Virtue Ethics