- Home >
- Campus News
Enron whistleblower to speak at PLU
April 13, 2007
Enron whistleblower Lynn Brewer will give a speech titled, “Integrity, Ethics and Enron,” on Monday, April 16 at 6 p.m. in the Morken Center’s public events room.
Brewer was an executive at Enron from 1998 to 2001, and quit shortly before the company imploded. At Enron, she was responsible for risk management, and within six months of starting there, she discovered what appeared to be $250 million in bank fraud.
Throughout her tenure, she witnessed numerous instances of illegal and corrupt dealings. Each time, she brought her concerns to the attention of her supervisor but was told to look the other way. After leaving Enron, Brewer went to the government and the media with her suspicions, and Enron ultimately collapsed.
Her talk at PLU will focus on ethical issues in business and the things business students need to know as they enter the corporate world. According to Brewer, a lot of people compartmentalize their private and work live, acting ethically in their personal life but unethically at work. However, she believes there can be no separation between the private person and the work person.
Brewer is the author of “Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower’s Story, which describes her career at Enron, her decision to blow the whistle and her fateful meeting with Ken Lay just two weeks before his death.
Today, Brewer is the founding chairman and CEO of The Integrity Institute, a for-profit research company based in Seattle. Through a quantitative model, the company can measure and predict the integrity of a company, which helps stakeholders decide if they want to work for or invest in the company.
Brewer holds a certification in business ethics from Colorado State University and currently serves on the Leadership Council of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group.
Throughout her tenure, she witnessed numerous instances of illegal and corrupt dealings. Each time, she brought her concerns to the attention of her supervisor but was told to look the other way. After leaving Enron, Brewer went to the government and the media with her suspicions, and Enron ultimately collapsed.
Her talk at PLU will focus on ethical issues in business and the things business students need to know as they enter the corporate world. According to Brewer, a lot of people compartmentalize their private and work live, acting ethically in their personal life but unethically at work. However, she believes there can be no separation between the private person and the work person.
Brewer is the author of “Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower’s Story, which describes her career at Enron, her decision to blow the whistle and her fateful meeting with Ken Lay just two weeks before his death.
Today, Brewer is the founding chairman and CEO of The Integrity Institute, a for-profit research company based in Seattle. Through a quantitative model, the company can measure and predict the integrity of a company, which helps stakeholders decide if they want to work for or invest in the company.
Brewer holds a certification in business ethics from Colorado State University and currently serves on the Leadership Council of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group.