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LRN’s Call to Action: 5 Steps Every Company Should Take to Promote an Ethical Culture (Part II of II)

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LRN’s  research consistently paints a picture that every board member, senior executive and middle manager should view — corporate culture is an organization’s most valuable intangible asset and is a significant determinant...more

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

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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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Lessons from The Adventure of the Crooked Man

One of the great things about having a podcast network is that I get to not only explore topics that I love but I get to tie them into compliance. Perhaps the best example is my award-winning series, Trekking Through...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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ECI’s New Survey – The State of Ethics & Compliance in the Workplace

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The Ethics and Compliance Initiative (“ECI”) is a terrific organization that provides important ethics and compliance insights and leadership.  Starting in 1994, ECI has conducted a longitudinal, cross-section study of...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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Admit It – Your Compliance Program is Not Really “Effective”

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Chief compliance officers are heroes.  They labor every day to advance a company’s ethics and compliance program without much recognition, with few resources, and with well-known gaps in their programs....more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

5 Essential Elements of Corporate Compliance

Most experts agree that whichever regulatory jurisdiction an organisation is subject to, there are five common fundamentals involved in providing effective corporate compliance....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Astros Players and Communicating Compliance

The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal is only going to get worse and worse. In addition to the report by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of the “Dark Arts” program by the Astros front office to steal signs in a program called...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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Tribute to Terry Jones and the Elements of Good Judgment: Part 1

As compliance moves more towards the embracing of data and incorporation of data, business processes and efficiencies into its realm, the more compliance professionals, especially those legally trained, will have to move away...more

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The Future of Compliance – The New Proactive CCO (Part III of III)

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The path of the compliance profession has been remarkable.  Recently, I have seen a number of tweets and postings from compliance thought leaders touting the accomplishments of compliance and the transformation of the...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Gaining a Holistic View of Risk and Compliance

Companies today need to take a holistic view of risk and compliance; it is no longer sufficient to let individual departments or teams be responsible for managing risk and compliance alone. ...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

Farewell to Harrison Dillard and a CCO Using Empathy

As a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) one of the most powerful tools you have is persuasion. Jenny O’Brien, CCO at UnitedHealthcare, has talked about the techniques that a CCO can use to influence decision making in a company...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

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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

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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

What is the role of a CCO in strengthening the ethical culture of an organization?

Today, I want to consider what is the role of a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in strengthening the ethical culture of an organization.  This blog post is based on, in part in an interview I did with Eric Feldman from...more

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The Land of a 1000 Podcasts

I have long been interested in business leadership. I approached a good friend Richard Lummis to ask if he would host me in such a series. Out of this came 12 O’Clock High, a Podcast on Business Leadership....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

A Tip of the Hat to Thomas and Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty

What can you do as a leader to help get through uncertainty in this prolongated season of turmoil? It begins with a broader understanding of these ecosystems, not simply the technical proficiency in operating within them. ...more

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