The St. Louis Kollel’s Jewish Ethics Institute welcomes author and motivational speaker Steve Epner for a talk on ways to grow businesses the ethical way. Epner will speak from 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10 at the Jewish Community Center Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, in Creve Coeur.

Epner serves as “innovator in residence” at the Catalyst Center, which helps organizations find new answers to old questions. He founded User Group, Inc., a consulting firm that he later sold to Brown Smith Wallace, a financial accounting and advisory firm based in St. Louis. He also founded Independent Computer Consulting Association, was a founding member of the EDI Coalition of Associations and created the Distribution Solutions Council.

The Jewish Ethics Institute is an accredited continuing education resource (CLE & CME) aiming to inspire physicians, attorneys and business professionals to develop authentic ethical perspectives through the prism of Jewish values, enabling them to face contemporary dilemmas while upholding the highest ethical standards.

The cost for the talk is $10 (free to JEI members).

For more information, contact the Kollel at 314-726- 6047.