Senior Get-Away
Keynote Speaker Al Gini

Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago.  He is also the co-founder and associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of the Society of Business Ethics.  Besides lecturing to community and professional organizations he does consulting on corporate ethics, and can be regularly heard on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM.  His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual, (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations, (Routledge, 2003); and, he has written and produced two plays:  Working Ourselves to Death and Letters of a Consumacholic.  His most recent book is entitled, Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2006)

During the retreat, Dr. Gini will speak on the role of both work and play in our lives, as well as the various aspects of work that most often lead to lives charged with happiness, meaning, and passion.