Election Reflection

Having just experienced the most divisive U.S. election in recorded memory, it seems a good idea to look at how best to proceed now that the new president has been declared. Read Fr. Max Oliva's Post Election Reflections

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See article about Fr Max Oliva in the Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nov 4, 2012):
Nevadan at Work: Local priest helps business community with ethics

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Max Oliva is a speaker, consultant, and author on the topic of ethical decision-making in the workplace. He makes his home next to Gonzaga University, in Spokane, Washington. He is a Jesuit priest.* His undergraduate degree is in Marketing and he has an MBA in Organizational Behavior from the University of California at Berkeley.
 
Father Oliva taught ethical decision-making to adult learners in the School of Management at Regis University’s Henderson, Nevada campus. In the fall of 2008 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. He wrote a monthly column on ethics for Las Vegas Business Press, a weekly magazine published by the Las Vegas Review Journal for four years. He began presenting seminars and talks on ethics and moral development to companies and business associations while living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He continues his involvement in Canada as well as in various other locations in the United States.
 
Father Oliva is the author of seven books. The latest, Becoming a Person of Mercy, is part practical guide, part spiritual refreshment and part small-group handbook. Each chapter contains questions for reflection and discussion to help us discern how God calls us to extend mercy to others, to his own creation, and especially to ourselves. Order Online
 
* “Jesuit” is a nickname for the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic Religious Order that was founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola. Jesuits serve in 112 nations and on 6 continents. Jesuits have been at the center of the conversations between science and religion and of culture with faith. They are known in the United States mainly for their educational institutions, for example, Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., .Fordham, in New York, and Loyola-Marymount, in Los Angeles.

Testimonial

“Thank you for speaking to our future leaders group. Your presentation on ethics and leadership was well received by everyone. Also, the reference bibliography you provided is both helpful and relevant. We hope that you enjoyed meeting the leadership class and will consider returning in the future….

Christopher L. Gray, Sales and Development, Las Vegas Review Journal





Latest Book

"Becoming a Person of Mercy"

Personal reflections and practices on the Works of Mercy.

Published July 2016

See more detail under Books.

New Feature  

Monthly column: Meditations With Fr. Max, in Thriving Warrior, the monthly magazine for NOVUM-U, helping inmates and ex-felons to leave prison behind (for good!).

For more information, visit NOVUM-U.com. To subscribe send an email to: 

admin@thrivingwarrior.me

Some of the Themes I Have Addressed:

Love, the Foundation of a Good Life

Prayer: Food For the Soul: (a 7 week series on different ways of praying)

Integrity: Living Our Truth

Compassion

Empathy

Mutual Respect

Facing the Future with Hope

Following Your Moral Compass

Truth and Inner Freedom

Jesuit Newsletter

“Spirituality and Ethics” is a monthly newsletter written by Father Oliva. Current and past issues are available at www.jesuitswest.org/spirituality/spirituality-and-ethics/

Read his November 2016 article: Post Election Reflections

Prior Appointment 

Father Oliva is a former member of the Board of Directors of Nevada Legal Services.

The mission of this organization is to strengthen the community by ensuring fairness and providing equal access to justice for low-income Nevadans.

In the News

"Thou shalt have integrity" 

Vegas Inc. 11/22/15

"Nevadan at Work: Local priest helps business community with ethics"

Las Vegas Review-Journal 11/4/12

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