The mission of the Arrupe Program is to promote the pursuit of truly human values by business managers and executives and the people who run them.  The program offers an eight-week seminar entitled Faith and Values at Work, to help the participants develop a faith-centered framework for thinking about themselves, the purpose of business, and the vocation of organizational leadership.  The Arrupe Program has also developed a one-day workshop centered around these same themes for groups of Jesuit high school and university alumni, and a values-based course, The Foundations Seminar, for use with business management teams. In July 2004, the insights of the Arrupe Program were applied in an exciting new setting. More than twenty CEO's gathered on July 15-16th in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, for an interactive seminar on "The Vocation of the Catholic CEO: The Future of Corporate Leadership." The seminar was jointly designed by Seton Hall University and Woodstock. Dr. Terry Armstrong helped facilitate a discussion on "Ethical Leadership Skills and Tools," and Woodstock senior fellow John Haughey, S.J., helped lead a session on "Faith-Based Ethical Leadership." Father Gasper Lo Biondo, S.J., facilitated the concluding discussion on "Where Do We Go from Here?" The seminar was designed to provide an opportunity for Catholic CEO's to "mutually explore their vocation regarding the quality of their leadership, the ways in which they alter the ethical climate of their enterprises, and the spiritual resources of Catholicism that have sustained them in their corporate leadership." Seton Hall University was represented by Msgr. Richard Liddy, director of the University's Center for Catholic Studies, and Dr. William Toth, co-director of the University's Institute on Work. Funding for the event was provided by the Lilly Endowment. You can view the full, two-page announcement of the event, with descriptions of the individual discussion sessions (in PDF format). The Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business and the Woodstock Business Conference were featured in an article in the May 2004 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine. The article, "By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them: Can Catholics make a difference for justice in the business world?", was written by Dennis O'Connor, managing editor of the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The article included a brief explanation by Dr. Armstrong of the Woodstock Business Conference's unique Ignatian process for aiding executives to reflect on and integrate their spiritual and work lives. It also included insights from Gregory F. Augustine Pierce, a member of the Chicago chapter of the Woodstock Business Conference, and owner of ACTA Publications. He relates some of the ways in which the chapter meetings help executives deal with very wrenching, difficult business decisions from the perspective of their Catholic faith. You can read the full text of the article online at the U.S. Catholic web site.