Background
His father was a Methodist preacher and later a non-stipendiary Anglican priest.
philosopher private sector banker
His father was a Methodist preacher and later a non-stipendiary Anglican priest.
He teaches on the Executive Master of Business Administration Programs as well as consulting with external corporate clients through Cass Executive Education.
Steare read History at Bedford College, University of London, (1976–1979) and elected to read the History of Western Philosophy with Conrad Russell. Steare"s early career included roles as a social worker and banker, and ten years as chief executive of a recruitment company. He is now Honorary Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School in London.
He is also a fellow of the cross-party policy think tank, ResPublica founded by Phillip Blond in 2009.
Steare"s essay on The Power of Love in Business was included in ResPublica"s "Changing The Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain". In collaboration with Athens-based chartered psychologist Pavlos Stamboulides, Steare conducts empirical research on moral character, judgement and behaviour.
Some of this research was published in The Times in October 2010, in a speech by Hector Sants of the Financial Services Authority in 2010 and by PwC United Kingdom in 2010. He is co-designer of the psychometric profile MoralDNA, used to measure moral values.
Steare is the author of Ethicability, first published in 2006 and now in its 5th edition
He is a regular contributor to the FT and to Chartered Banker magazine in which he challenges the "dysfunctional totalitarian construct" of modern corporations. On 22 July 2012, he was a guest on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service"s "In the Balance" programme, in an episode entitled Holding Companies to Account. In 2014, Steare was appointed Visiting Professor of European Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Steare has developed programs in leadership, ethics and corporate responsibility for organisations including Boite Postale, Citigroup, Household Bank, PwC, the Financial Services Authority and the Serious Fraud Office. Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Boite Postale incorporated Steare"s ethicability RIGHT framework for ethical decision-making into the Boite Postale 2011 Code of Conduct.
Steare was a member of the Expert Drafting Committee for Rights and Humanity, invited by the British Government to prepare recommendations for the G20 London Summit in April 2009.