One of the leading authorities on moral reasoning and ethical decision-making, Roger Steare is an independent advisor to boards, executive teams and regulators. 

Also known as The Corporate Philosopher, Roger is an Associate Professor at Headspring, the Financial Times and IE Business School joint venture, and has worked closely over many years with chief executives around the world.

Roger’s two defining contributions are the book Ethicability – now in this 6th edition with over 700,000 digital licences and 25,000 book sales to date, and the MoralDNA character profile – taken by over 200,000 people worldwide. Informing a compelling body of ethics research, together these evidence-based resources have given many organisations a practical language and rigorous framework for moving beyond rules-based compliance, towards values, character, better judgement and sound decision-making. 

A member of the Expert Drafting Committee for Rights and Humanity, invited by the British government to prepare recommendations for the G20 London Summit in 2009, Roger also served as an FCA Advisor on Culture and Ethics from 2013 to 2022. His work has taken him into the boardrooms and C-suites of Citi, HSBC, Barclays, BT Openreach, Nationwide Building Society, PwC and the Serious Fraud Office. In 2016, his BP ethical leadership programme was mandated by the U.S. Department of Justice in the $20 billion Consent Agreement.

A Fellow of the think tank ResPublica and the Royal Society of Arts, Roger’s books can be found in homes, offices, schoolrooms and even a presidential library. In 2026 he was appointed a Commissioner to the Institute of Directors’ Commission on ‘Business: A Force for Good?’