Powerhouse keynote conversation planned between aviation attorney and 3-star admirals

Posted 3/3/21

Internationally renowned aviation attorney Kenneth Quinn (FINA ‘82) will serve as the keynote presenter for the NIU College of Business BELIEF Week Spring 2021.

Quinn is currently Principal at International Aviation Law PLLC, which specializes in aviation, aerospace, transportation and unmanned aircraft systems. He has been instrumental in shaping the regulations on aviation and flight safety and has counseled aviation leaders before, during and after crises: from building internal cultures that manage risk to developing relationships with key players.

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Powerhouse keynote conversation planned between aviation attorney and 3-star admirals

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DeKalb — Internationally renowned aviation attorney Kenneth Quinn (FINA ‘82) will serve as the keynote presenter for the NIU College of Business BELIEF Week Spring 2021.
Quinn is currently Principal at International Aviation Law PLLC, which specializes in aviation, aerospace, transportation and unmanned aircraft systems. He has been instrumental in shaping the regulations on aviation and flight safety and has counseled aviation leaders before, during and after crises: from building internal cultures that manage risk to developing relationships with key players.
During the March 10 BELIEF Week keynote, Quinn will moderate a panel conversation with two United States Admirals: United States Navy Admiral Cutler Dawson, former CEO of Navy Federal Credit Union, and United States Coast Guard Admiral Sandy Stosz, former Superintendent of the US Coast Guard Academy. Their conversation will focus on ethics, leadership, and crisis management. This Zoom webcast runs from 5 to 6 p.m. CST on Wednesday, March 10 and can be joined with the following link: go.niu.edu/BeliefWeekKeynote.

“We are grateful that this esteemed panel is joining us to share ethical lessons based on their decades of service to our country,” says Balaji Rajagopalan, Dean, NIU College of Business. “We know their insights will be incredibly valuable to our students and we sincerely appreciate their supporting our educational mission in this way.”
Since its founding in the early 2000s, BELIEF Week has served as the main event, among a series throughout the year, by which the college celebrates and promotes ethical decision making in industry and in the curriculum. This year’s keynote conversation brings three remarkable individuals together with wide-ranging experience across several areas – military, community service, political to professional.
“Keynote presenter Kenneth Quinn embodies what it means to be a Huskie. He dives in, rising from modest beginnings to ultimately reach the pinnacle of success in his field,” says Neil Doughty, Director of the BELIEF program. “We are grateful to Mr. Quinn for joining us to share his extensive expertise and for bringing in Admirals Dawson and Stosz for what is certain to be an amazing keynote conversation.”  
As an alumnus, Quinn was the last in a long line of successful siblings to attend NIU. The Quinn family relationship with the university produced one journalist, two special education teachers, two tech industry executives and an internationally recognized aviation attorney.
BELIEF is the ethics education program at the NIU College of Business. Its goals are to help students identify when they might be in an ethically compromised situation and give them a decision-making framework to help them determine how to address that situation professionally and ethically.  BELIEF promotes ethics education throughout the College of Business course curricula.  
Along with this keynote panel conversation, BELIEF Week also provides an earlier, separate panel discussion with experts in the finance field. Their Zoom webcast on Ethics in Investing runs from 5 to 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday, March 9 and can be joined at this link: go.niu.edu/BeliefWeekPanel.