Partnership Opportunities
Connect and Empower
Your personal experience and skills, and those of your organization, can benefit students, faculty members, and peer executives. Together, we have unlimited power to better our world.
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Impactful Programming
The Center for Leadership and Ethics draws corporate partners to add context and expertise in developing curriculum and program development for our students across all McCombs degree programs. Your professional insights ensure students have the skills and self-awareness to move seamlessly into ever-greater areas of responsibility and leadership.
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Educational Partners
Insightful Research
Join our corporate partners and participate in groundbreaking organizational research. The center partners with organizations on applied research projects (e.g., analyzing engagement surveys) led by our faculty and research staff, providing a larger funnel for more rigorous research collaborations in the future.
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Research Partners

Become an Advisory Council Member

Our Executive and Associate Advisory Councils improve leadership and ethics education and advance McCombs’ reputation as a leading source of leadership and ethics education and research resources for the world. Council members join for a three-year term and meet semi-annually. Council members are engaged with the Center’s faculty and leadership team while also interacting with students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Executive Advisory Council

Janet Bates

President, JMB Texas Family Interests

Jon Berger

Managing Director, Accenture

Marshall Eubank

President, SEG Interests, LLC

Beth Goff-McMillan

Chief Executive Officer, SKG, Inc.

Fred Herbert

Managing Director, CIC Advisors, Advisory Council Co-Chair

Jeff Herbert

Owner, J. Herbert Consulting

Marty Meekins

Managing Partner, Co-CEO and General Counsel, Emory Oak Partners, Advisory Council Co-Chair

David Sammons

President and CEO, Subaru Distributors Corp.

Eric Stumberg

Co-Founder, CEO, President, TengoInternet, Inc.

Associate Advisory Council

Ginny Allen

President, Kagin 3 Company

Lisa Fancher Blonkvist

Senior Vice President, Family Wealth Director, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

John Briscoe

Consultant, Energy Consulting

Max Brodsky

Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Emily Dreyer

Vice President, Dell Technologies

Dave Hendrix

Senior Software Executive and Advisor (Retired)

Andy Mathis

Chief Business Officer, Firefly

Bob Orkin

President, Robert Orkin Interests

Gunnar Pritsch

Chief Operating & Chief Risk Officer, MIO Partners

Peggy Wang

Partner, PwC Trust Solutions Private

Keith Wulffraat

Chief Procurement Officer, TalentNet

Honorary Members

Sean Dougherty

Strategic Finance, PepsiCo

Anne Robillard

Business Development Manager, University of Texas at Austin

Lydia Fisher

Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Lauren Russell

Chief Strategy Officer, Change Cadet

Caroline Peterson

Operations Manager, Amgen