Michelle Nichols from the compliance team at Farmer Mac definitely wins the prize for the most unexpected title for a session at the 2024 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute: “How Dating in My 50s Made Me a Better Compliance...more
Compliance professionals can face a lot of resistance in the course of their work: leaders who don’t have the time, budget limits, managerial indifference, and even outright hostility. But, sometimes the impediments are...more
You may not realize it, but your compliance program has a brand. Line employees and management all have a host of impressions about the compliance department that color how they respond to what you say and do. A strong brand...more
On October 4, 2023 at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics' Compliance & Ethics Institute in Chicago, US Deputy Attorney General Lia A. Monaco spoke live from Washington to the attendees and used this opportunity to...more
One of the more well-attended sessions at the SCCE 22nd Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute, promises to be “ESG and DEI: How to Position for Stakeholder Success”. The session will be lead by Adrian Taylor, Director of...more
More and more organizations seem to be adopting compliance ambassadors or champions programs. In a nutshell, these efforts involve having members of the business unit serve as the eyes and ears, and sometimes arms and legs,...more
United States Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco recently gave a speech in which she outlined both new policies at the Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as enhancements to existing ones that can have a profound...more
The writing on the wall is pretty clear: regulators expect compliance programs to be custom designed for the organization and kept up to date. That means compliance teams need to stop periodically and reassess their program...more
At the 2022 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute Dr. Jan Sprafke, Head of Compliance, Europe and Latin America and Jad Mhanna, Regional Compliance Officer at Ericsson will be leading a session entitled Cultural Divide...more
Daniel Garen, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Vivint, divides compliance officers into two types. One is more comfortable running established, stable programs. The other is more comfortable diving in to a crisis.
A...more
Perhaps the most intriguing title for a session at the 2021 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute was “Re-Thinking Employee ‘Engagement’: What’s on Your Compliance Program’s Dating Profile.” Not often you see references to...more
Codes of conduct are ubiquitous these days, and they are often digital. It’s a way to make them more accessible, and more in line with how people work.
But what if you took that virtual approach up a bit? That’s what TAQA...more
Ted Lasso has been a pandemic streaming success story. The show stars Jason Sudeikis as an American college football coach hired to lead a troubled English soccer (football) club.
Unlike the typically-portrayed coach,...more
Mergers and acquisitions can be filled with landmines. To find out what compliance teams can do to help manage the risk, and help ensure a successful transaction for the business unit, we spoke on this podcast with Fernanda...more
What do the current times and the times to come mean for corporate values?
To answer that question we turn in this podcast to Marjorie Doyle, Principal, Marjorie Doyle & Associates, and Art Weiss, Principal, Strategic...more
During the second half of 2020 Gartner Research evaluated the compliance spending of 117 organizations, and the company recently released the interesting findings. Brian Lee, Managing Vice President in the Gartner Legal and...more
The Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal captured global headlines and was profoundly disruptive to the company, resulting in substantial penalties and a three-year monitorship under former Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson...more
When Lisa Gross, Ethics Senior Manager at Lockheed Martin and Art Weiss, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Tamko Building Products set to work as co-chairs of the Ethics Track for the 2020 Virtual Compliance & Ethics...more
The only thing better than a good compliance case study is eighteen of them, and that’s what you’ll find at the 2020 Virtual Compliance & Ethics Institute, taking place September...more
As compliance teams seek to extend their reach into the organization, one idea that has emerged in the development of compliance champions. But what is a compliance champion and how does it work?
In this podcast Duncan...more
All codes of conduct share a common goal of shaping employee decisions and actions. Yet codes differ in terms of size and scope. Some are quite brief, while others are dozens of pages long.
Darrell Contreras, Chief...more
There are few businesses seen as more essential today than FedEx. Its trucks have become a lifeline for many. But just because a company can and must operate, doesn’t mean it enjoys carte blanche to do what it likes. The...more
Companies are struggling to survive and boards are stretched beyond belief. So how do you get the governing team to focus on compliance? According to Nell Minow — dubbed the “Queen of Good Corporate Governance” by...more
Judith Spain is a professor of business law at Eastern Kentucky University, Compliance Collaborative Program Consultant with the Georgia Independent College Association, and, most importantly for this conversation, the author...more
Tyler Schultz, like many others, was entranced by the vision of Theranos and its charismatic founder Elizabeth Holmes. He would not remain so for long, ultimately sharing his concerns with her, his grandfather (a member of...more