Cost: FREE; registration accepted from all members of FOI, ASIS, CII, WAD, PBUS and co-sponsoring associations, all Texas licensed investigative and security professionals, fraud examiners and all persons registered to attend the “2021 National Investigators’ Conference” (www.picon2026.com). 

REGISTRATION LINK: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlf-6srjMqG9Qx7_xeJ5P0kpf6Zgi_fFOw

This seminar is a “virtual pre-con”, provided free to conference attendees and FOI’s professional colleagues. It is intended to provide coverage and discussion of an always-critical topic and also to satisfy regulatory and credential renewal requirements.

Five hundred (500) registrants will be accepted; registration will be open until midnight on 06 June 2021.

OUTLINE of SEMINAR:

• Updates and Presenter Introduction
• There is no such thing as business ethics (or investigator ethics)
• Ethical conduct is not always easy – but it’s not complicated.
• Laws should not define ethics. Legal doesn’t mean moral.
• The Golden Rule – Ethics for Idiots.
• Why be ethical?
• Famous Failures – famous consequences.
• Why do some act without regard to ethics?
• The erosion of integrity is rarely quick and spectacular.  It is usually a gradual slipping of standards.
• Why ethics are particularly important to Investigators.
• Taking our ethical temperature.
• Conclusion
• Q&A

Steven Kirby

Steven L. Kirby has been a licensed Private Investigator in Illinois and Wisconsin since 1975 and was also a licensed polygraph examiner in Illinois from 1976 through 2014.  During his over 45-year career he has conducted investigations throughout the United States and in several foreign countries.  A number of the cases he has been involved in have been featured on such nationwide media outlets as 48 Hours; Dateline; Time Magazine as well as local media in Chicago. Some of Steven’s more noteworthy cases have recently been featured on ABC’s “20-20” and on Netflix.

Steven Kirby was President of Edward R. Kirby & Associates from 1980 to 2014 when he semi-retired from the profession.  He is currently of counsel to Kirby and Associates, which has been a well-known agency since it was founded in 1969.  Kirby & Associates specializes in fraud investigations; intellectual property matters; complex litigation support; and criminal defense.

Until recently Steven served as the Executive Director of the Council of International Investigators (CII), an organization of more than 400 professional investigators in sixty-seven countries and six continents. Steven is also a member of NCISS and was previously granted the Certified Fraud Examiner credential.  Steven was a top-rated presenter at the 2018 FOI Investigators’ SuperConference.