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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Transforming Culture: Part 5 – Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement of Culture

Boeing is not the first company to find itself amid a massive scandal. You can think of Siemens’ bribery and corruption scandal, the VW emissions-testing scandal, the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, or any other...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Transforming Culture: Part 2 – The Role of Leadership

Boeing is not the first company to find itself amid a massive scandal. You can think of Siemens’ bribery and corruption scandal, the VW emissions-testing scandal, the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, or any other...more

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UK Corporate Briefing - March 2024

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Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more

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Leading the way: Ethics and compliance as leadership responsibilities

To thrive in a complex world of constant change and challenge, firms must continuously innovate by pivoting business models, creating disruptive products, and implementing new technologies. Keeping an organization innovative,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Dracula as a Model for Compliance Positioning, Branding, and Leadership

Today, we consider the iconic character of Dracula as a model for compliance positioning, branding, and leadership. At the same time, Dracula may seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for these topics. Still, his unique...more

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Global or Local: The Constant Dilemma in Compliance

So, you’ve got a global compliance program. But, what do you do when a local team says, “That doesn’t really work here” or “We think it would be better if it were changed to something else for us”? Kristy Grant-Hart, CEO of...more

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Be the One Together – Juneteenth

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Rising together - I rise, I rise, I rise. These are the last three lines of the poem “Still I Rise” by the beloved poet Maya Angelou – and what Juneteenth is all about. Juneteenth commemorates one of the most meaningful...more

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A Review of Risk & Compliance in 2022

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As 2022 comes to a close, now is an ideal time to reflect on the developments and challenges this year held for the risk and compliance profession – and there was no shortage of either. The complexity of maintaining...more

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Compliance Officer Challenges and Frustrations Getting Board and Management Commitment to Compliance Culture

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One of the biggest challenges a compliance officer faces is establishing a strong commitment to creating a culture of compliance and obtaining recognition–there needs to be a compliance “tone from the top” of an...more

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NAVEX R&C Benchmark Finding – Regulatory Compliance is a Top Priority

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Risk and compliance (R&C) leaders have long understood that a well-functioning R&C program is an engine that drives strong corporate cultures and a range of positive business outcomes. Yet, NAVEX survey data indicates that...more

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NAVEX R&C Benchmark Finding: Programs Still Have Opportunities to Better Utilize Data

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NAVEX publishes the Definitive Risk and Compliance Benchmark Report each year, surveying over 1,100 industry professionals. The purpose of this report is to provide insight into the effectiveness of R&C programs and enable...more

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NAVEX R&C Benchmark Finding: Leadership’s Opportunity to Improve Commitment to Compliance

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NAVEX publishes the Risk and Compliance benchmark report each year, surveying over 1,100 industry professionals. The purpose of this report is to provide insight into the effectiveness of R&C programs and enable leaders to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Leadership Week: Part 3, the Stoics Guide to Business Leadership

Today, we dip back into ancient history for some leadership lessons that every Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) should take to heart, by considering the Greek and Roman philosophers, the Stoics. You can draw a straight line...more

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Compliance Perspectives: Compliance & Corporate Governance in the Time of COVID-19

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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Elements of Good Judgment: Part 3

Today, I conclude the topic of judgment for compliance professionals. I recently read a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on the topic by Sir Andrew Likierman, entitled “The Elements of Good Judgment: How to Improve Your...more

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The Future of Compliance: Re-Branding Compliance from Reactive to Proactive (Part I of III)

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As everyone knows, I am an eternal optimist.  Being a cynic always leads to negative energy and results.  As a former federal prosecutor, I am deeply committed to the idea of doing the right thing....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

12 O'Clock High, a podcast on business leadership-Episode 116: Leadership Lessons from the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1636-1637

In this special four-part podcast series, Richard Lummis and myself consider business leadership from a different angle, that of great economic disaster. This podcast series was inspired by the Great Courses series of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Lodger and Empathy in Compliance

Over this week, I have reviewed stories from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, mining each story for themes and lessons related to the compliance professional, leadership and business ethics. In today’s fifth and final...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Blanched Soldier-Learning to Ask For Help

Many compliance professionals in the corporate world work long and it is hard to rise to the senior management level in their organizations. It takes SME, hard work and sometime propitious good fortune to get to the C-Suite...more

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What Happens When Managers Misbehave?

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Company managers are the lynchpin of a corporate compliance program. Without belaboring the Tinkers to Evers to Chance baseball analogy, a corporate culture of compliance requires an important information and accountability...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Boards and Corporate Culture: SSGA Framework

I recently had the chance to visit with Rakhi Kumar, Senior Managing Director, Head of ESG Investments and Asset Stewardship, at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). We discussed the firm's recent initiative around corporate...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

GHBER Honors Jim DeLoach – 2019 Bette Steed Leadership Award Recipient

The Houston Greater Business and Ethics Roundtable (GHBER) is pleased to announce its 2019 winner of the Bette Steed Leadership Award. It is Jim DeLoach. Bette Steed is the founder of GHBER and each year, our organization...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Connected Compliance

I recently had the chance to visit with Valerie Charles, the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at GAN Integrity, Inc. (GAN Integrity) about a subject that is fastly becoming one of the more topical conversations in the compliance...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Scooby Doo and Curiosity in Compliance

I thought about the need for curiosity for a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in the context of a 2016 New York Times (NYT) piece which profiled Soledad O’Brien, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Starfish Media Group, a...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Leadership Lessons from the Presidency of James Buchanan

I conclude my short series on what leadership lessons might be learned from four Presidents immediately preceding the Civil War. Today we continue our series on little known or remembered US Presidents with one of the great...more

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