Christopher Michaelson is an ethics professor and business advisor who studies how meaning and purpose in life and at work can improve our own and others’ lives. Throughout his career, Christopher has built bridges between scholarship and practice. After earning his Ph.D. in philosophical ethics and aesthetics, he was one of the first consultants in a business ethics advisory practice in the New York office of a Big Four firm. When he took his first full-time academic position at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, he kept a foot in practice and later became the firm’s Strategy Officer to the World Economic Forum. Today, he is Opus Distinguished Professor of Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas, teaches in the Business & Society program at New York University, and performs research with the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota.