Ethical Voices: Interview with Paula Pedene

This week Paula Pedene is being inducted into the Defense Information School Hall of Fame.  Every PR pro should listen to her interview from 2018 and then buy her book: A Sacred Duty

Ethical Voices Interview #1 - Paula Pedene, APR, Fellow PRSA

In this episode we speak with Paula Pedene, one of the key whistleblowers in the VA scandal about the ethical issues she faced and advice for public relations professionals

Paula is a service disabled veteran, a PR agency owner and was PRSA PR Professional of the year in 2015. She is a guidepost against which many PR pros should measure their ethical standards. 

This interview highlights:

1) The ethical issues she faced at the VA

2) Her advice for whistleblowers and those serving as ethical guardians for their organizations

3) The best ethics advice she ever recevied

4) New ethics issues of concern