Meet Our Team of Facilitators
Experienced Discussion Leaders from Business and Academia.
Each year, the College Ethics Symposium is incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful group of facilitators.
Years of Experience
The small group case study sessions are led by accomplished leaders who are trained in the art of discussion facilitation. While accomplished in their fields of expertise, they will not be teaching or lecturing like in a more traditional classroom study.
Your facilitator will:
- Guide you through each of the cases.
- Motivate participation by each participant.
- Maintain a safe and open environment for sharing ideas.
- Watch carefully for interpersonal dynamics of the group looking for signs of potential strain, weariness, lulls, and readiness to move on.
- At every opportunity, recognize the participants for their efforts and the progress they make, and their results.
- Time keeper. Keeping the session on track by tactfully cutting short irrelevant discussions, preventing detours, and maintaining a consistent level of detail throughout the session.
- Listen carefully to the discussion and be able to quickly analyze and compare comments and to formulate questions that help manage the group discussion and challenge the group when appropriate.
Joe Homa
Joe is a 1983 graduate of the United states Military Academy at West Point, where he earned his BS in Basic Sciences and 3 varsity letters playing football for Army. He spent most of his 4 year Army career as an Engineer Officer at Fort Bragg, NC where he held various leadership positions overseeing construction projects. Joe was injured at Fort Bragg in the process of saving another soldier from an oncoming truck and getting hit himself. He was awarded the Soldier’s Medal, the Army’s highest peace time award for heroism, for his response.
After leaving the military, Joe earned his MBA from New Hampshire College and spent 23 years in the corporate world where he held various senior leadership roles, to include President and COO of regional/national industrial distribution companies and VP of Global Sales for a fastener manufacturing company. Many of Joe’s leadership roles involved mergers and acquisitions and turn-around situations. He has spoken at industry conferences on “The role of leadership in acquisition integration”.
Since retiring from the corporate world in 2010, Joe moved to Hilton Head full time where he gained his real estate license and has been selling homes on the island. Joe and his wife have also designed, built and sold 10 luxury homes in Hilton Head’s oceanfront communities.
Besides Joe’s business experience, he is active in his church, has served on various community planning committees and is currently a volunteer mentor for a community program designed to lift people out of poverty.
JoAnne Brandes
JoAnne is an attorney, an outside Board member of several corporations, and speaker and consultant specializing in leadership development, corporate structure and governance, cultural transformation and change management. JoAnne retired after 25 year career with the S.C. Johnson family of companies as the Executive Vice President, CAO, General Counsel and Secretary of JohnsonDiversey, Inc., responsible for all legal matters, Human Resources, Communications, Public Affairs and administration for the company and its over 65 international and domestic subsidiaries.
JoAnne was a member of the company’s management committee and had major responsibility for the company’s acquisition and integration within a few years of global companies adding over $2 billion in sales. JoAnne was named “Working Mother of the Year” by Working Mother Magazine several years ago for her work in developing corporate child care and other family friendly programs for employees.
Michael Flood is a retired Naval Aviator and current Delta Airlines Captain. Mike is a 1987 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy where he earned his BS in Mathematics and lettered in gymnastics.
During Mike’s 20-year career as a Naval Officer, he held many diverse positions, served on ships and bases around the world and achieved Aircraft Commander on four different aircraft.
After leaving active duty Mike joined ExpressJet Airlines, quickly climbed the ranks to become a Chief Pilot, leading and mentoring over 1,100 pilots and serving as a direct liaison to the FAA, TSA, local law enforcement and government. He was a key member of the leadership team tasked with launching a new airline. Mike was also a Check Airman, responsible for training and mentoring pilots.
Currently, Mike is a Captain for Delta Airlines. He flies the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft and enjoys seeing the world from what he describes as “the best office view available”.
Mike is very active in the Hilton Head community as an elder and youth ministry leader in a local church, and as the Committee Chairman for Boy Scout Troop 245. Most importantly, Mike is a husband and father of three boys.