In the September 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review, in an article entitled “How to Cultivate Engaged Employees”, author Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos wrote about his experiences in working for a family-owned multi-national organization. From his experiences he learned how to “engage contributions from and thereby promote engagement by, local employees” in a multi-national organization.” His article detailed some of his lessons learned in “fostering a sense of mutual dependence” or what he termed “mutuality”. I believe that the principles that he set out in his article can be of guidance to a compliance practitioner who is working across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures to foster a better working relationship between the Compliance Department and business units in an organization.