Paul Fiorelli

Professor Paul Fiorelli has written a book entitled, “Establishing Workplace Integrity: Six Lessons in Values- driven Leadership” (published by Business Expert Press, April 2024). It addresses corporate culture, loyalty and engagement, motivations for misconduct, whistleblowing, compliance programs and white-collar crime.

He is the Director of the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics at Xavier University. Paul Fiorelli was selected to become part of an Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission, which reviewed Chapter 8 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines regarding organizations. The Ad Hoc Advisory Group reported its recommendations to the United States Sentencing Commission on October 7, 2003. After minor revisions, these recommendations were sent to Congress on May 1, 2004 and became law on November 1, 2004.

Each year the Supreme Court, through the Supreme Court Fellows Commission, selects four individuals to come to Washington, D.C., and work in different branches of the judiciary. Paul Fiorelli was selected as one of the 1998-1999 Supreme Court Fellows and was assigned to the United States Sentencing Commission. During his Fellowship year he researched and lectured on compliance and ethics issues, employee confidentiality questions, and how internal auditors can play a major role in compliance programs. He received the “Thomas Clark Fellow Award” from Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and the 2007 International Compliance Award from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. In May of 2000 he was selected as a Senior Fellow for the Ethics Resource Center’s (now the Ethics and Compliance Initiative) Fellow’s Program.

Paul Fiorelli received both his law and M.B.A. degrees in 1981, has taught at Xavier University since 1983 and has been a tenured, Full Professor since 1994. He has also taught a course on Ethics and Compliance at the CY Cergy Paris University, since 2014. At Xavier, he has received numerous teaching awards including the 2022- 2023 MBA Professor of the Year.

Professor Fiorelli actively consults in the area of business ethics, compliance, corporate culture, integrity, and whistleblowers, and has provided workshops and presentations to groups and companies, including: AK Steel, AIG, ALICO, Association of College and University Auditors, Association of Professional and Practitioner Ethics, Bell-Textron Helicopter, BP, BYU, Cardinal Health, Cincinnati Financial, Cinergy, Cintas, the Conference Board, CY Cergy University of Paris, the Defense Industry Initiative, University of Dayton, DePaul University, Eli Lilly & Co., Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, Ethics Resource Center, Fifth Third Bank, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, General Dynamics,GE, Great American Insurance Company, Harris Corporation, Honda of America, Kroger, L’Oréal, Marathon Petroleum, Mead-Westvaco, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, the Ohio Society of CPAs, Practicing Law Institute, Sears, Society of Business Ethics, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, St. Anselm College, Toyota, Tyson Food, US Oncology, Wal-Mart, and Western-Southern Life Insurance.