Business Authority

     Tom
Morris

Philosopher to business
Tom Morris is an acclaimed business author and one of the most active business speakers and in America due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges we face now.

Tom's twelfth book, True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence, catapulted him over the walls of academia and launched him into a new adventure as a public philosopher and advisor to the corporate world. Recent audiences include Motorola, Coca Cola, Merrill Lynch, IBM, The US Air Force, Price Waterhouse, Target Stores, The Dayton Hudson Corporation, Northwestern Mutual Life, Schlotzky's Delis, NBC Sports, Keystone Financial, Business Week Magazine, The Bayer Corporation, RCA, Novuus Services (Discover Card), Deloitte and Touche, Federated Investors, American Funds, Taco Bell, Ryder Trucks, First Data Corporation, The American Hospital Association, the Healthcare Forum, the Young Presidents Organization, and the World Presidents Organization.

Previously, he served for fifteen years served as a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he quickly became one of their most popular teachers. Known by his Notre Dame students as ‘TV Morris’ Tom is the first philosopher to appear in network TV commercials as well as being the only thinker ever to engage in early morning TV with CNBC’s early morning show Business Today as well as NBC’s Today Show. His message combined with high energy and humor is helping to change lives and revolutionize business practices everywhere.

Read a recent interview with Tom on "How Ethics Can Transform Your Company Culture and Change Lives"

Professional Experience
  • Business Author (16 published books)
  • Public speaker, exclusively with the Washington Speaker's Bureau
  • Founder and chairman, The Morris Institute for Human Values, Wilmington, N.C., 1996-the present
  • Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1981-1996
Online Education Programs
  • The Essentials of Ethical Success (2003)
  • The IMA Course on Ethics for Success (2003)
  • The Essentials of Ethical Success — Human Resources Perspectives (2004)
  • True Success (2004)
Business Books
  • The Stoic Art of Living
  • The Art of Achievement (2002)
  • If Aristotle Ran General Motors (1997)
  • True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence (1994)

Other Books of General Interest
  • The Everyday Patriot (2002)
  • Philosophy for Dummies (1999)
  • Making Sense of It All (1992)
  • God and the Philosophers (1996)
  • The Bluffer's Guide to Philosophy (1989)
  • (Academic books available upon request)
Television

If Aristotle Ran Your Company (an upcoming PBS series)

Videos

True Success (1998)

Education

  • B.A. with Honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974
  • Ph.D. in both Philosophy and Religious Studies, Yale University, 1980
  • M.Phil. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Yale University, 1979
  • M.A. Religious Studies, Yale University, 1976
Sources of Inspiration and Insight

The Bible
Seneca's Letters and Essays
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

The Tao Te Ching
Plato's Apology
The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superman, Batman, and Spiderman (Tom is co-editing an upcoming anthololgy of essays on comic superheros and philosophy (Open Court)
Aristotle's Ethics
Pascal's Pensees

What Question Businesses Should be Asking?
How can we create the conditions under which all of our people can feel their best and be their best?


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