Cynthia Schoeman is the Managing Director of Ethics Monitoring & Management Services (Pty) Ltd. She is a founding non-executive director and the chairperson of the Ethics Practitioners’ Association (EPA), she sits on the Ethics Committee of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and she has been appointed as a Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. She has also served two terms on the Investigating Committee of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA).

She has over 15 years’ experience in the field of workplace ethics and governance. She has developed practical tools and services to support the effective and proactive management of workplace ethics within organisations and consults to private and public sector organisations in this regard.

Cynthia is a published author in the area of workplace ethics, namely Ethics Can: Managing Workplace Ethics (2014), Ethics: Giving a Damn, Making a Difference (2012) and An Employee’s Guide to Workplace Ethics (2011). Cynthia’s articles are widely published in business journals and the press.

Cynthia is a regular speaker on workplace ethics at conferences and is often interviewed on TV and radio as an ethics expert. Cynthia has lectured on ethics and governance as external faculty on executive and academic programmes since 2000 at South Africa’s top business schools.

Cynthia has a BA from Unisa, an MBA from Wits Business School and an MPhil in Applied Ethics (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University.