Michael DeWilde is the director of the Koeze Business Ethics Initiative at the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, where he is also a professor in the Management Department. He teaches primarily in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, with a focus on courses in ethics and leadership. He also taught in GVSU’s Philosophy department.
DeWilde is a winner of a Pew “Teaching Excellence” award, as well as a “Graduate Teaching Excellence Award” given by GVSU grad students. He has been a featured speaker at numerous universities and businesses in France, India, and the United States.
He has, for close to thirty years, consulted with West Michigan businesses and organizations as an executive coach. For nine years he worked exclusively with physicians and clinicians in Michigan’s largest healthcare system.
His most recent articles on business ethics have appeared in Teaching Ethics and the Seidman Business Review. His book chapter, “A Business Ethics Center Rethinks Its Role,” was published in the book A Companion to Doing Ethics, this past August.
His latest talks have been “Brain to Bedside: Using Neuroscience to Cultivate Empathy in Medicine,” with Dr. Tia Chakraborty; “The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Lessons from Canada, the Netherlands, and Amy Bloom”; and “The Purpose of the University in an Era of AI, Anxiety, and Animosity.”
He holds degrees from Harvard University and Grand Valley State University.
