Lynn Brewer
Former Enron Executive
Lynn Brewer's notoriety stems from her actions that have dubbed her "the Enron Whistleblower". Her accomplishments include: Author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblowers Story; Earning a Certification in Business Ethics from Colorado State University; Founder and President of The Integrity Institute, Inc., which assesses and certifies corporate integrity at the request of organizations for the benefit of their stakeholders.
In 2002, what was seen as pervasive fraud in our capital markets was seen as a mere, albeit painful, market correction in 2007. Yet Lynn Brewer was in a unique position to predict both of these crashes. For nearly three years, she worked as a mid-level executive in risk management at Enron, where she witnessed numerous instances of illegal and corrupt dealings, including bank fraud, espionage, power price manipulation, and the gross overstatements to the press, public, and financial world.
After leaving the energy giant in 2000 and blowing the whistle on the company, she wrote in her 2002 autobiography: Look to Enron to Foretell the Future. Recognizing that human behaviour drives corporate performance, in 2005, Lynn foreshadowed the crash of 2007, in a letter to Warren Buffett, on the eve of giving a key note address to Berkshire Hathaway’s elite group of CFOs.
Today, after more than ten years of research and development, The Integrity Institute, which Brewer founded in 2001, is about to change the way we rate public companies—no longer based on next quarter’s projected performance but by predicting whether the company’s performance is sustainable. The foundation of Lynn Brewer’s research in predicting sustainable performance of public companies based upon a pattern of behaviours that have proven to exist in companies like Enron, BearStearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual. In 2011, after more than ten years of research and development, she will offer her work to the world with the release of the first-ever Integrity Index ratings–which will rate the structural integrity of every public company beginning with those listed on the U.S. exchanges.
Lynn Brewer is the founder and CEO of The Integrity Institute. She is an outspoken opponent of what she calls ―Regulation Theory. Beyond her extensive writings on the subject of corporate integrity, Brewer has received numerous accolades for her work, including being honoured for her leadership as the subject of a documentary by the Nobel Peace Center and being recognized as a historical figure by the Nobel Peace Museum.
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Confessions of an Enron Executive
This is a compelling look inside the company that has become the poster child for corporate corruption. Brewer provides insight into who, what, where, why, and how Enron was able to rise and fall virtually overnight with no warning. She helps companies identify the potential warning signs to beware of to avoid becoming the next Enron. -
Capitalizing on the Value of Integrity
In this lecture, Brewer helps redefine integrity not as a moral, but structural standpoint and helps organizations understand how to measure the organization's ability to withstand market forces. She provides a quantifiable measure of the return on integrity to help leaders understand the market value to stakeholders for assessing and certifying corporate integrity.
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March 2006Managing Risks for Corporate Integrity: How to Survive An Ethical Misconduct Disaster
Ethical misconduct can shipwreck your company. Avoid scandal with MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER. Inside, you'll discover powerful insight into dealing with, and preventing, ethical disasters. You'll not only learn how to identify, illustrate, and define ethical misconduct; you'll get the expert's guide to preventing, mitigating, coping with, responding to, and surviving ethical disasters. In today's world, MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER is a must-read for every business leader.
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October 2004Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story
Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistlebower's Story, is Lynn Brewer's gripping account of nearly three years spent with the company that has come to symbolize the worst in corporate greed. Lynn's riveting tale takes you deep into the heart of Enron for a shocking look at both the notorious illicit deals and the unscrupulous people who made them. Having spent time with Enron's water company, trading division, power trading desk, and the broadband unit, coupled with Lynn's background in accounting and law, a scandalous portrait emerges of a company run amok in the name of naked avarice. Fascinating, revelatory, and often times hilarious, Brewer details the riveting account of her career at Enron, and her decision to blow the whistle to lawyers and the United States Government, long before the world had ever heard of Sherron Watkins.
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