Cynthia Cooper is an internationally recognized speaker on ethics, leadership, overcoming adversity, the current economic crises and recent scandals. Ms. Cooper inspires audiences and shares the riveting story of how she and her team unraveled the fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history.

In 2002, Ms. Cooper was named one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year. In addition to Ms. Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley, the designation has been given to only five women including Wallis Simpson, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Elizabeth II, Corazon Aquino and Melinda Gates since Time began naming its Person of the Year in 1927.

Ms. Cooper is the author of Extraordinary Circumstances (February 2008, John Wiley & Sons), a book that discusses her experiences as a corporate executive. In addition to being used by corporations, the book is often assigned by professors to help students recognize ethical dilemmas, think them through and make the right decisions.

Cynthia Cooper has a passion for speaking to young people about the lessons she has learned and the importance of strong ethical leadership. She has donated profits from her book to further ethics education for high school and college students.

Cynthia has served on panels with notables such as Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, Donna Brazile and Grover Norquist and has appeared on programs including Fox Business America's Nightly Scoreboard, PBS's Tavis Smiley, NBC's The Today Show, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CSPAN's BookTV and CNBC's The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch and Squawk Box.

In 2004, Ms. Cooper was inducted into the AICPA Hall of Fame and is the first woman to receive this distinction. She was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in the November 2004 issue of Working Mother. Along with Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley, Cynthia received the Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award from the Women's Economic Round Table for contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance. She also received the American Accounting Association's Accounting Exemplar Award, presented annually for notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. She is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award.

Cynthia previously served as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI until July 2004. Prior to joining MCI, she worked in public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. She received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University and her Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama.

Ms. Cooper is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. She previously served as a member of the Standing Advisory group of the Public Accounting Oversight Board and currently serves on advisory boards for Lehigh University, Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University.

• Betting the House: Lessons learned and the way forward in enterprise risk management.
• The Current Economic Crises and Recent Scandals: What Went Wrong; Moving Beyond the Current turmoil

• Ethical Leadership for the 21st Century
• Glass House, 2.0: How building a culture of transparency can strengthen your organization.
• Extraordinary Circumstances: Unraveling the largest corporate fraud in history.
• Building a Solid Foundation: Preventing and detecting fraud and avoiding scandal
• Striding Right: Building and sustaining an ethical corporate footprint.
• The Slippery Slope: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions; Ten steps to help sort through ethical dilemmas and make the right choices

• Ethical Leadership: Our personal responsibility in the new era of corporate governance

• Who Moved My Goalposts: How to field tough calls when the ground is shifting under your feet.
• Defining Moments: Overcoming obstacles to realize your full potential; how adversity can shape lives for the better.
• Management of the Possible: The Achievement of More.
• The Power of Choice: Making a Positive Difference
• Teaming with Possibility: Tapping into unlimited human potential through teamwork.

• Shaping the Next Generation: Instilling Values to Build a Strong Ethical Foundation
• Called to Account: What the recent scandals can teach the next generation.
• Finding True North: Making Sure Our Moral Compass is Pointed in the Right Direction
• How Bright Lines Can Fade to Shades of Gray: Navigating everyday problems and ethical dilemmas.
• Thinking Instead of Sinking: 10 steps to help keep your head up and your ethics intact as you navigate life's storms.

• Women's Wisdom in the Workplace
• Roots, Limbs and Branches: How a woman can keep her appointment with success without finding herself out on a limb.