Pushing boundaries to deliver intelligent ethical business: Tracey Groves CEO Intelligent Ethics inspiring Leadership interview with Jonathan Bowman-Perks

Tracey Groves – CEO, Intelligent Ethics:  

As a Music graduate from Durham University, a former Territorial Army Royal Artillery Officer, a chartered accountant, a certified organisation development practitioner and former PwC Partner, one word that is often used to describe Tracey is ‘unique’!  Tracey’s career is made up of leadership roles in many guises, from being Head Girl at school to leading global financial crime remediation programmes focusing on ethical conduct, culture and behaviours, and empowering and inspiring women in the workplace. 

Through her own advisory business, Intelligent Ethics, Tracey works with leaders to unlock high performance and talent, accelerate sustainable growth, and drive innovation directly aligned to the execution of strategic business goals by acting as a trusted business advisor, a corporate executive educator and a passionate keynote speaker and panellist. A Financial Times Champion of Women in Business and winner of the Variety Catherine Award for Consulting, Tracey brings a unique blend of business process, commercial understanding, consulting and organisational change management skills to whatever she does. 

 Tracey’s top leadership tip?  Never give up – there is no such word as can’t. 

An inspiring business leader, inclusive business adviser, leadership development practitioner, expert facilitator, and critical friend to senior execs and management teams. Brings a commercial, integrity-led and human-centred leadership approach to ESG built up over 30 years’ global consulting and risk-based business transformation experience. Leads and shapes sustainable business based on aligned strategic priorities, activated corporate purpose and ethical values.

Key areas of expertise include design and development of integrated ESG Strategy, Corporate Integrity, Purpose, Inclusion and Belonging, Executive Education, Organisational Development, Business Culture, Transformational Leadership, Risk and Compliance.

Leads the development of risk-resilient and inclusive business using corporate integrity, leadership, ethics and purpose as enablers of sustainability and accelerators of growth, agility and innovation. Builds trusted relationships across boundaries that inspires action and navigates complexity to make things happen. Global experience working with large-scale, multicultural corporates in highly regulated sectors.

Recent awards: FT Champion of Women in Business 2019, 2018 | Grant Thornton Global Women in Business Champion 2019 |Catherine Variety Award for Professional Services 2018.

Advises Boards and Leaders on how to think differently, shape and deliver corporate integrity, resilient leadership, and business conduct and culture as drivers of high performing business and sustainable performance as part of an integral approach to ESG. Committed to hardwiring desired leadership behaviours, culture change and corporate purpose into the heart of doing profitable business through the delivery of multilateral solutions, trusted relationships and leveraging networks across boundaries.

Brings clarity, focus and makes things happen through an agile, open and inclusive leadership style. Combines technical skills, global experience and human-centred leadership expertise with energy, enthusiasm and passion for change.

A leading voice on the ethical deployment of new technologies. Helps leaders to develop an ethical approach to digital transformation, hardwiring values, purpose and ethics into the core of tech that drives business efficiency, job augmentation and accelerates innovation.