Vincent Wolfington, founder and chairman of Global Ambassador Concierge LLC and Global Alliance Advisors LLC, will present “To Thine Own Self Be True: How Stewardship, Adam Smith, Confucius, and Catholic Intellectual Tradition Inform Today’s Business Leaders,” at Loyola College in Maryland on Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall. The event is free and open to the public. 

Today’s business leaders face competing demands spurred by globalization, technology, and an abundance of information and applications for it. Their mental capacity strained, executives may struggle to remember fundamental truths about what is most important in their personal and professional lives. By drawing on philosophical concepts from different eras and cultures, Wolfington provides a roadmap for businesspeople eager to develop strategies for balancing their responsibilities to themselves, their families, their professional organizations, and the world in which they live. His remarks will span the Confucian concept of how to be a good servant; Adam Smith’s ideas on how to reconcile leaders’ self-interests with their commitment to others; the acknowledgment of Catholic intellectual tradition’s pressure on leaders to discern right and wrong; and the more recent concept of stewardship, which emphasizes corporate leadership guided by social conscience. 

“In my discussions with Vince Wolfington about business and ethics, I am invariably impressed with the sophistication of his business expertise along with the clarity of his commitment to basic human values,” said Rev. James L. Connor, S.J. Fr. Connor is the coordinator of the national Woodstock Business Conference’s Baltimore chapter, which meets monthly at Loyola’s Timonium Graduate Center. Fr. Connor was instrumental in arranging Wolfington’s appearance at Loyola. 

As founder and chairman of Global Ambassador Concierge and Global Alliance Advisors, Wolfington leads two of the world’s leading travel-related organizations. Global Ambassador Concierge provides cultural consulting, translation, transportation, and other services to business and leisure travelers in the United States and China; Global Alliance Advisors provides guidance to investors and executives engaged in the international travel and tourism sector. In 2004, Wolfington was elected chairman of the World Travel & Tourism Council, which represents 100 of the premier global companies participating in the travel and tourism industry, and he remains a member of its executive committee. As chairman of the Global Travel and Tourism Summit in spring 2006, Wolfington led an event attracting such influential figures as Condoleezza Rice, Carlos Gutierrez, Michael Chertoff, and Norman Mineta, all then-members of U.S. President George W. Bush’s cabinet. 

Former chairman and chief executive officer of Carey International Inc., the world’s largest chauffeured vehicle service company, Wolfington is a graduate of Georgetown University and a member of the leadership boards of the U.S. Travel Industry Roundtable, the Travel Industry Association of America, and the Woodstock Theological Center. His previous board positions have included such organizations as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Very Special Arts, and Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.

This event is sponsored by Loyola’s Commitment to Justice in Higher Education, Council of Academic Deans, Faith and Business, and Center for Community Service and Justice.