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Seminars & Presentations

Seminars

  • "Leadership, (de-)Globalization, and the Quest for Common Values."
    Hafrey, Leigh, Todd Breyfogle, and Giovanni Farese. Aspen Institute Italia, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy. April 14, 2025. Seminar Description.
  • "Leadership, (de-)Globalization, and the Quest for Common Values."
    Hafrey, Leigh, Todd Breyfogle, and Giovanni Farese. Aspen Institute Italia, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy. 2024. Seminar Description.
  • "Good Technology – Good Democracy?"
    Hafrey, Leigh. The Aspen Institute Socrates Seminar, Briesen, Germany. October 2024. Seminar Description.
  • "Humanity, Technology, and the Future of Work."
    Hafrey, Leigh. The Aspen Institute, Nara, Japan. May 2024. Seminar Description.
  • "From AI to Co-Creation: Democracy Now."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates International Seminar, Aspen, United States. 2023.
  • "From AI to Co-Creation: Democracy Now."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Institute Spain, La Granja, Spain. 2023.
  • "The Aspen Institute Italia Seminar on Leadership, Globalization, and the Quest for Common Values."
    Hafrey, Leigh, Todd Breyfogle, and Giovanni Farese (annually from 2011-2023). Aspen Institute Italia, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy. 2023.
  • "Philosophy and Practice."
    Hafrey, Leigh, Carol Gluck, King Mallory, and Ruth Girardet (seminar offered annually 2011-2023). Aspen Institute Germany, Briesen, Germany. 2023.
  • "Information Wanted to Be Free: Liberalism’s Tech Reckoning."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Institute Spain, Ronda, Spain. 2022.
  • "Techno-narratives & Truth: Reshaping the Future."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Institute Spain. 2021.
  • "Masks, Currencies, and a Post-Pandemic Future."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Institute México. 2021.
  • "Post-Pandemic, a Paradigm Shift on/in Europe?"
    Hafrey, Leigh and Ruth Girardet. Aspen Initiative for Europe/Aspen Institute Central Europe, Liblice, Czech Republic. 2021.
  • "Fractured Europe?"
    Hafrey, Leigh and Ruth Girardet. Aspen Initiative for Europe/Aspen Institute Germany, Pillnitz, Germany. 2020.
  • "Leadership in Flux."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Initiative UK, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2019.
  • "Leadership in Flux."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Initiative UK, West Sussex. 2019.
  • "Europe, the Next Generation, Shared Values."
    Hafrey, Leigh and Miguel Herrero. Aspen Initiative for Europe/Aspen Institute France, Annecy, France. 2019.
  • "Next-Gen Europe: Leading for Values."
    Hafrey, Leigh and Miguel Herrero. Aspen Initiative for Europe/Aspen Institute Spain, Ronda, Spain. 2018.
  • "Europe: The Next Generation, Shared Values, Future Prosperity."
    Hafrey, Leigh and Miguel Herrero. Aspen Initiative for Europe/Aspen Institute Italy, Spoleto, Italy. 2017.
  • "'As a City Upon a Hill’: On Becoming America."
    Hafrey, Leigh and James Russell Muirhead, Jr. Socrates Symposium, Aspen, United States. 2017.
  • "Fighting, Competing, Imagining, Leading: The Path to a Good Society."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates Symposium, Aspen, United States. 2016.
  • "Heroes and Villains: Leading Business, Politics, and Civil Society in the 21st Century."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Socrates/Aspen Institute México, Mexico City, Mexico. 2014.

Presentations

  • "Toward an Ethic of Everything: Leading in Difficult Times."
    Hafrey, Leigh. MIT LGO Alumni Board Ops Leadership Series, August 15, 2025.
  • "Ethics & Leadership: An Entrepreneur's Mandate."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Legatum Center, MIT, Cambridge, United States. October 7, 2024.
  • “The Work of Self: Next-Word Prediction or Ontological Resilience?”
    Web3 AI, & Quantum Computing (WAIQ) 2024 Challenges & Opportunities for Innovators, Legal Professionals and Curious Minds, June 12, 2024.
  • “Two Ways of Looking at Transformers (After Wallace Stevens),”
    2024 MIT Ethics in Technology and AI, February 28, 2024.
  • “Designing & Living in the Good Place:  Ethics & IDM,”
    Integrated Design and Management Program, MIT, October 17, 2022.
  • “Communicating Leadership: Socratic Dialogue Today,”
    Aspen Institute España, Madrid, October 6, 2022.
  • "What is Business Ethics, & How Do We Live and Work By It?"
    Hafrey, Leigh. Banco Pichincha, Quito, Ecuador. February 23, 2018.
  • "Ethics and Transparency in Business and State-Business Relations."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador. February 23, 2018. Description.
  • "Telling It Straight: The Story Route to Ethical Business Practice."
    Hafrey, Leigh. Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, New York, United States. April 6, 2017. Description.