Mark Katchen is the Founder of Applied Ethics Advisors, LLC, and Managing Principal of The Phylmar Group, Inc. He has taught professional ethics at the UCLA/UCI Southern California Education and Research Center for more than 15 years and is co-author of Ethical Decision-making in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety: A Comparative Case Study Approach (Wiley, 2026). His work focuses on how professionals make and defend difficult decisions under authority pressure, uncertainty, and competing obligations, including emerging questions in AI governance. He created the Ethical Decision Analyzer, a web-based tool that applies his multi-lens decision framework, and speaks nationally on ethical leadership. He holds an MS from Cal State Northridge and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University.

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Ethics for Health and Safety Professionals

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