Steve Forman, Senior Vice President at Strategic Management Services, had an eye-opening experience years ago when interviewing for the job of Vice President of Audit and Compliance for New York Presbyterian Hospital. The...more
Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica.
Change is...more
We spend a lot of time in compliance discussing how to encourage employees to come forward and report any wrongdoing they see around them. Considerably less time, though, is spent on how to handle employees who report their...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
Much of the day to day of compliance isn’t about understanding laws. It’s about influencing human behavior and steering people in the right direction.
In this podcast, Scott Young, Principal Advisor and Head of Private...more
Cancer is not just a diagnosis between a patient and physician. In this podcast Jeremy Laws, Operations Supervisor at the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System, explains that a cancer diagnosis triggers state-by-state...more
When planning for disasters, organizations are typically focused on things like call trees, backup data servers, and alternative work locations. In the crush to survive the immediate threat it’s easy to forget about...more
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
Melinda Shapiro, Senior Director of Compliance at San Diego-based National University, knew she needed to do something different with the school’s approach to enterprise risk management (ERM). When she took on the compliance...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
Email isn’t enough anymore, if it ever really was. Employees are communicating with each other, clients and prospects via texts, WhatsApp, Teams, Slack and many, many more tools.
Much attention has been paid to the US...more
In a perfect world, whenever employees face a difficult decision or outright compliance issue, the right policy would automatically pop up in front of them. While that is not likely to happen soon, Jannica Houben, Vice...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
When an employee announces a departure to another job, there is a temptation to think that it was for more money. That’s probably a mistake, says Mike Lifshotz, founder and CEO of Hatch Compliance. The new position may pay...more
ChatGPT is, like the movie title, seemingly everywhere, all the time, and all at once. Individuals and corporations have rushed to embrace it, sometimes with great results, other times, not so much.
For better or worse,...more
Our colleagues expect to be treated like adults, and that should include the compliance training we assign them.
CJ Wolf, a professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho, explains we need to embrace adult learning theory,...more
Our colleagues expect to be treated like adults, and that should include the compliance training we assign them.
CJ Wolf, a professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho and founder of Codermedschool.com, explains we need to...more
For years Caremark has set the standard for expectations for board members. The notable Delaware case made clear that boards should exercise reasonable care in overseeing an organization. In practice that includes obtaining...more
You really should listen to this podcast. That’s my advice.
If you do you’ll hear Scott Garland, Managing Director, Sanctions, Cyber, Fraud and Ethics Compliance & Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors give better advice on...more
These days, the term “blockchain” is no longer novel. Yet, many still struggle to understand what exactly it is and what implications, if any, it may have for a compliance program.
Segev Shani, Chief Compliance & Regulatory...more
For all the talk of tone at the top, the reality is that few employees report to the top. Virtually all report to a manager somewhere in the middle, and it’s the tone that leader sets that is often most important.
Susan Du...more
The cyber landscape these days can be terrifying. Malware, ransomware, spyware, phishing, cloud-based computing and so much more are enough to keep even a compliance veteran up all night.
There are other risks to consider,...more
As environmental expectations keeps rising and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) metrics gain more importance to investors, some organizations will be tempted to greenwash, which is best described as making an...more
On December 7, 2022 The Speak Out Act became law. Stephen Paskoff, the President and CEO of ELI explains that the law was spurred by the #MeToo movement and the Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) that limited recourse available...more