In January 2008, Global Compliance acquired Ethical Leadership Group, a leading ethics and compliance consulting firm with Steve Priest as President.

Steve Priest has practiced ethics consulting in over 40 countries for great organizations in most major industries. He is a frequent conference speaker and has conducted ethics sessions for the Board of Directors of twenty of the nation’s leading companies.

Prior to founding the Ethical Leadership Group in 1993, Priest was Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Policy, a Chicago-based ethics think tank.

Priest has a Bachelor of Arts degree and Master in Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University. He also studied international organizational development in the Graduate Business School at the Katholieke University of Leuven in Belgium.