Welcome to this week's episode of the Modern Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cook.

Today's episode is all about how to practice integrity with real intention.

I'm joined by Rob Chestnut, former general counsel and

chief ethics officer with Airbnb Inc. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of

Virginia, Rob joined Airbnb in 2016 and developed a popular employee program called Integrity Belongs

Here.

Today, he joins me to discuss his new book, Intentional Integrity, How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution.

I began by asking Rob to explain the title of his book.

What exactly is intentional integrity?

Integrity is this notion of having some values or purpose in your life or in your company.

That's your North Star.

That's the way that you're going to operate.

And if you have integrity, that means you're going to operate that way even when it's hard, even when no one's watching.

Too often, we all think of ourselves as having integrity, and it's a very vague concept, though.

The idea of intentional integrity is you need to be purposeful about it.

You need to define what you mean by having integrity in your life and what specific actions you want to take.

And in a company, you've got to be specific, again, about how the company is going to operate.

It's not a vague concept that's on a pretty poster with a lake and forest in the background.

You've got to bring it to life with specifics. Integrity looks great on a poster.

But when hard business decisions need to be made, how can companies stand by those commitments?

Rob shares his thoughts here. The old way of thinking was that when business is good, then we can

do the niceties of integrity and goodness.

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