The University of St. Thomas

Facilitators

Facilitators 

Facilitators in the Aspen tradition are neither lecturers nor group experts. Rather, they are people who set the context for the text, ask questions about the meaning of the text and help to foster meaningful dialogue and debate over the text. In other words, facilitators focus both on the text and the participants to have a meaningful exchange both over the interpretation of the text and its modern implications.

If you have any questions on how to facilitate the CIT seminar please contact either Ken Goodpaster or Michael Naughton, who have served as the facilitators for the past CIT seminars.  

Kenneth Goodpaster earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his A.M. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan. Goodpaster taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy at the University of Notre Dame throughout the 1970's before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980, where he developed the ethics curriculum. In 1990 Goodpaster left Harvard to accept the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. At St. Thomas, he teaches in undergraduate, MBA and executive educational programs.  For more information, see his website:  http://www.stthomas.edu/cob/faculty/goodpaster.html

Michael J. Naughton is the holder of the Alan W. Moss Endowed Chair in Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) where he is a full professor. As a faculty member with a joint appointment in the departments of Catholic Studies (College of Arts and Sciences) and Ethics and Law (Opus College of Business), he is also the director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, which examines Catholic social thought in relation to business. As director he has organized international conferences in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America on the theme of Catholic social thought and management as well as various faculty and administrative seminars on the mission and identity of Catholic universities. He received his Ph.D. in theology and society from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. He is married with five children. For more information, see his website: http://www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/masters/faculty/naughton.htm