2018 Business Faith and Common Good Symposium

“An Economy of Communion”

Friday, October 5, 2018, Skutt Student Center Room 105

The 2018 Business Faith and Common Good Symposium brings a lineup of outstanding speakers who will provide short talks on various topics oriented around “An Economy of Communion”.  This year we will be hosting the Economy of Communion-NA annual meeting, and entrepreneurs from across the country will be here for the event. We hope students and faculty will be in attendance as well! All are welcome.  Attendance is free. Please direct any questions to Andy Gustafson (andrewgustafson@creighton.edu)

Schedule

8-845 Coffee/Pastries Networking

8:45 Nick Sanna, COO Risklens, Board Member EOC.  “Welcome”

930 Amy Uelmen (Georgetown) “Pope Francis on The Economy of Communion”

1030 Greg Beabout (St. Louis U) “The Economy of Communion and Catholic Social Teaching”

1130 Angus Sibley (London) “Why Too Much Competition is Bad for Humanity”

1230  Scott Henson,  CEO of TEAM and Nick Morgan, Chief Legal Counsel, TEAM

130 David Cloutier (Catholic U) “Practicing the Economy of Communion in a Consumer Society: Challenges and Opportunities.”

230   John McNerney (Ireland) “How Business Does and Sometimes Does Not Make us More Human”

330 John Gallagher (Maryville) and Jean Buckeye (U St. Thomas) “Why Economy of Communion Exemplifies Subsidiarity”

530 Reception at the Omaha Press Club

We are very excited about this year’s lineup of speakers.  Each talk will last about 30 minutes, with 15 minutes of Q&A.  We expect interesting and spirited discussions about the ways business can be integrated with faith, and visa versa.

The Symposium is generously sponsored in part by Dundee Bank and Anderson Convenience  Market

            

On the Presenters:

Nick Sanna Nick is the COO of RiskLens and is responsible for the definition and the execution of the company strategic positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies. A serial entrepreneur, Nick’s passion is to help the industry close the gap that separates IT from the business. Prior to RiskLens, Nick contributed to closing that gap as CEO of Netuitive, a leading IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) software company and as CEO of e-Security, the pioneering Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) company that was ultimately sold to Novell.

Amy Uelmen   Uelman was the founding director of Fordham University’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work from 2001 to 2011 and  is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown Law and a research fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center. Her scholarship focuses on how Catholic social thought might shed light on tort law, legal ethics and legal education, and how principles of dialogue might inform debates about religion in the public square. Books authored include: Education’s Highest Aim: Teaching and Learning through a Spirituality of Communion (2010) and Focolare: Living a Spirituality of Unity in the United States (2011),

Greg Beabout is professor of philosophy at St. Louis University and has a thorough knowledge of Catholic Social Thought.  His books include The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward. (2013), Celebration of the Thought of Pope John Paul II: On the Occasion of the Papal Visit to St. Louis. (1998), and  Applied Professional Ethics (1994)

Angus Sibley: Angus Sibley is a retired actuary and former member of the London Stock Exchange. He has written extensively on finance, economics, Catholic theology, and other topics. In 2015 he published  Catholic Economics: Alternatives to the Jungle in 2015. and in 2011, The Poisoned Spring of Economic Libertarianism.  Angus runs Equilibrium Economicum

Scott Henson International Director, TEAM.  Scott holds a Ph.D. in international relations and law from Vanderbilt University, an MBA from Duke University, an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and a bachelor’s in religious and Biblical studies from Gardner-Webb University. He serves on the faculty at Maryville College, where he teaches political science and international studies and is passionate about mentoring young global leaders.

David Cloutier teaches moral theology at Catholic University, and is author of the award-winning The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age, and Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Faith, as well as Reading, Praying, Living Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’

John McNerney is a researcher in and lecturer in business ethics and philosophy.He has been Head Chaplain/Student Adviser at University College in Dublin, Ireland.He recently published a book, Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face

John Gallagher, professor of management at Maryville College and and Jean Buckeye associate professor of ethics and business law are co-authors of the book Structures of Grace, about EOC companies in the U.S.