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One of the founding faculty members of the Jepson School, Professor Joanne B Ciulla teaches courses on ethics, critical thinking, conflict resolution and leadership in international contexts. A demanding and creative teacher, she was honored in 2007 with the university's highest award for teaching, and in 2003, with the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Her academic appointments have included the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Jordan and appointments at La Salle University, the Harvard Business School, the Wharton School and Oxford University. She currently holds visiting appointments with the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and Nyenrode Universitit in the Netherlands.

Joanne's research interests are leadership ethics, business ethics, international leadership and the philosophy of work. Her books include Ethics, The Heart of Leadership; The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work; and The Ethics of Leadership. She co-authored a business ethics text titled Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader and co-edited a collection of essays on The Quest for Ethical Leaders: Essays in Leadership Ethics. The book critics at Amazon.com ranked The Working Life as number two in their list of the 10 best business books of 2000. She also published the three-volume set, Leadership at the Crossroads: Leadership and the Humanities.  She gives lectures and seminars all over the world and has worked with organisations such as the Aspen Institute, the World Economic Forum and the Brookings Institution.