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David is the President of Working Values, Ltd. and a Senior Vice-President of SmartPros Ltd., the professional education firm that acquired Working Values in 2003. Since founding Working Values in 1993 as a strategic communications and learning agency, David has become a recognized thought leader in the emerging field of values-based ethics and integrity risk management. Working Values has maintained a cherished reputation as an innovator of new approaches to raise the awareness of ethics and values in major organizations through consulting with senior leaders on the deployment of integrity-based processes and the development of interactive ethics and compliance training programs. A business lawyer by training, David received his Juris Doctor from the University of California in Davis. As an attorney in private practice, David gained extensive experience in both bank regulatory and software licensing issues. David worked in Israel for CBS Records International as Director of Business Affairs, and as a staff lawyer for El Al Israel Airlines. David became familiar with the regulatory and compliance issues of public companies while serving as Corporate Counsel for Gamma International Ltd. As the company s senior practice leader and strategist, David works with clients to shape program goals and articulate the links between the organization s values and the behaviors required to implement those values. David is the creator of the Integrity Alignment Process, a methodology used by companies to close the gap between behaviors and company standards. David s work has benefited clients such as America Online Corporation, The Boeing Company, Coors Brewing Company, Raytheon, Reebok, and Schering Plough Corporation, among others. David is a noted speaker on ethics and values and their role in the workplace. David has led senior -manager workshops for clients world-wide and has led numerous sessions at audit, communications, and ethics conferences, including the Conference Board of Canada, the Division 1 Athletic Directors and workshops at the Ethics Officer Association Annual Conference for the past five years and at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Conference. In December 2003 and in January 2005, David led seminars on Business Ethics in Tel Aviv, Israel sponsored by the Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem, for which David serves on its International Advisory Committee. In 2003 David became a Research Fellow at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts to further his research in systems and processes to help organizations reduce risks to their reputation and develop ethical cultures. | 