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EthicastBridging Generational, Cultural, and Organizational Divides in Speak-UpOn March 29, 30, and 31, Ethisphere will host the 2026 Global Ethics Summit, held live in Atlanta GA and virtually online. This leading ethics and compliance event brings together leaders from nearly 500 organizations around the world, representing more than 60 industries, as they share innovations, insights, and best practices that help them tackle the real-world E&C challenges that face companies everywhere.
A can't-miss part of this year' agenda are interactive workshops such as One Speak Up Program, Many Voices: Bridging Generational, Cultural, and Organizational Divides. This session directly addresses the challenges of navigating the different expectations and communication...
2026-02-1808 min
EthicastHow to Prevent, Detect, & Respond to Evolving RiskIn today’s nonlinear, accelerated, volatile, and interconnected (NAVI) business environment, organizations are facing unprecedented pressure to keep pace with change. Yet most compliance functions remain underpowered, under-resourced, and unaligned with the evolving risk landscape. As a result, many businesses are struggling to manage rising threats—from AI-enabled cyberattacks to complex third-party risks—while also tasked with meeting demands for faster, smarter compliance outcomes. In this episode, Cecilia Melzi, Partner of the Forensics and Integrity Risk Services from EY Peru, discusses how you can prevent, detect, and respond to swiftly evolving business risk.
To learn more f...
2026-01-1413 min
EthicastBELA Asks: Who Should Be In Our Champions Program?Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers another question from the BELA Membership: Who should really be in our champions program? Erica also answers a second question around how to know when your champion, ambassador, or liaison program is really working.
BELA is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, benchmarking, events, and other resources to advance your E&C program. It also provides a concierge service by which members can submit questions around best practices, and our internal experts will provide an...
2026-01-0913 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts: Insider Trading and the Maduro RaidIn this episode, Ethicast host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne discuss the insider trading implications involving a suspiciously timed Polymarket bet on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Are we entering a golden era of insider information?
What new risks does access to predictive markets bring to the workplace?
How can business respond ethically to technological and market gray areas?
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2026-01-0718 min
EthicastPost-Investigation Best PracticesInvestigations are serious business, but what happens after one concludes is just as important as the speak-up that promoted the investigation, and the investigation itself.
Jodie Fredericksen (VP of Data & Services, Ethisphere) and Eric Jorgenson (Director, Data & Services, Ethisphere) share post-investigation best practices that get help ensure equitable outcomes and support organizational justice, from address workplace retaliation, to discipline calibration, to when the time is right for root cause analysis.
2:21: Retaliation is a perpetual problem for companies. Year after year it rates as one of the top 3 reasons why employees are reluctant to “speak up...
2025-12-3015 min
EthicastFour Questions on Investigations Best PracticesHere at Ethisphere, we believe there is no competition in compliance. That’s why we’re using this show as a platform to answer high-level questions about business integrity that have been posed to us by the members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, or BELA.
BELA is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, benchmarking, events, and other resources to advance your E&C program. It also provides a concierge service by which members can submit questions around best practices, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with...
2025-12-2623 min
Ethicast2025: The Year of the Ousted CEOAfter a year of CEOs getting caught on kiss cams, facing charges for looting their own company, or fielding tough questions form the DOJ about financial mismanagement, Ethisphere Editor in Chief Bill Coffin looks to what we should really be taking away from all of this leadership churn...and what it means for E&C programs everywhere.
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2025-12-2307 min
EthicastWhen to Conduct Root Cause AnalysisOnce an investigation into reports of workplace misconduct is closed, organizations often conduct a root cause analysis (or RCA) on the issue. But is that always the right course of action? Should root cause analysis be conducted for all investigations, or are there certain criteria that should trigger a root cause analysis process?
It’s a good question, because there are plenty of obstacles to overcome when conducting effective root cause analysis, from incorporating the right data analytics to securing leadership buy-in. And perhaps the biggest one of them all is ensuring that the lessons learned after co...
2025-12-1813 min
EthicastWhat Role Should My Substantiation Rate Play?In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne returns to the topic of internal investigations and answers a most interesting question from the membership of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA): What strategic role should your substantiation rate play? Stick around for a compelling story Erica shares in which an unsubstantiated claim at one company led to a shocking discovery.
To learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, or speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit www.ethisphere.com/bela
2025-12-1207 min
EthicastCalibrating Discipline in InvestigationsOn a long enough timeline, an inevitable outcome of workplace investigations is disciplinary action. Applying the right level of outcome to an investigation is crucial to a fair and effective ethics and compliance program. It’s something that the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs encourages, but doesn’t necessarily require, which places it in the realm of voluntary best practices. But what is the DOJ really looking for? And what really constitutes a best practice?
In this episode, Ethisphere's Jodie Fredericksen and Eric Jorgenson discuss how calibrating discipline is an imp...
2025-12-1014 min
EthicastHow Can I Bring Consequence Modeling Into E&C?In BELA Asks, we answer to high-level questions submitted by the members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) - a membership community for ethics and compliance professionals - for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains what consequence modeling is, how you can use it to advance your E&C program, and why E&C practitioners everywhere should look to their allied functions for ideas.
To learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, or speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit www...
2025-12-0506 min
EthicastFrom Toxic Patterns to Healthy CultureEthical culture is at the heart of business integrity. It is measurable and can create a virtuous cycle of psychological safety, values-based leadership, and higher financial performance. But it doesn’t always go that way. Every culture, no matter how well-meaning, lives with certain pressures that, if not handled the right way, can foster poor-decision making and foment unethical behavior.
In this episode, organizational culture expert Tobias Sturesson describes how his experience in freeing himself from a religious cult and unlearning its toxic behavior patterns has given him unique insight on how to help organizations bu...
2025-12-0316 min
EthicastWhat are Best Practices in "Test-Out" Style Training?One of the best benefits of membership in the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is that members can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information. And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, which is why the Ethicast thematically responds to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. In this episode of BELA Asks, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses the concept of a "tes...
2025-11-2110 min
EthicastE&C Lessons from the First Brands BankruptcyIn late September 2025, aftermarket auto parts manufacturer and brand owner First Brands suddenly filed for bankruptcy, which took many in the world of finance (and auto parts) by surprise. But the failure was a long time coming, fueled by a debt-driven acquisition strategy and more importantly, an opaque, asset-based finance system that exists largely outside of regulatory restraint and perhaps even the most basic tenets of good corporate governance. In this episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne provides a helpful look at what happened with First Brands, lawsuits and investigations into allegations of fraud and embezzlement, and...
2025-11-1925 min
EthicastHow Do I Build a New Skills and Capabilities Matrix for the E&C Department?One of the highly utilized benefits of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is its concierge service, in which members of the BELA community can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information. Since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level concierge questions for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. And in this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses how organizations can best develop E&C skill matrices. Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, and...
2025-11-1405 min
EthicastEmotional Data Is the Key to Driving CultureFor most E&C programs, a robust data analytics element is table stakes for running a best-in-class business integrity effort. But as data volumes grow to astounding levels, we must ask ourselves an important question: are we gathering the right kind of data? Case in point: How people feel about a particular issue is one of the most commonly overlooked data sets in employee behavior. And yet, it is an element that many data analytics programs simply don’t take into account. In this episode, Ray Day and Tony Sardella of Stagwell and Allison Worldwide explore how data around em...
2025-11-1219 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts: NBA Insider Trading ScandalOn Oct. 23, the FBI indicted more than 30 people within the National Basketball Association for charges related to illegal gambling; namely insider trading-style schemes around so-called "pop bets," that wager not on a game's outcome but on an individual's performance or a specific moment or event within a game. The indictments have been described by the FBI as a major blow against organized crime, and characterize this as a major crisis for the NBA. For those within the ethics and compliance profession, this is a corruption scandal with clear lessons to teach us around subjects such as incentives, pressure, and...
2025-11-0523 min
EthicastHalloween Special: How Do I Justify E&C to the Board?In this special Halloween-themed episode of BELA Asks, we discuss something which many E&C leaders might find a little unsettling, if not downright scary: being called upon to justify the E&C function to the Board. With us as always is BELA Chair and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne as she provides her signature insight to high-level questions such as these from the BELA Community.
To learn more about BELA, visit ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.
If...
2025-10-3115 min
EthicastDon't Sleep on Supply Chain Social Compliance AuditsIn an increasingly interconnected world where supply chains have become multi-layered supply webs, the task of managing supply chain due diligence has become more important than ever. A key aspect of this is social compliance auditing, the manner in which organizations ensure that their partners and third parties are abiding by human labor law.
In this episode, Craig Moss—executive vice president of measurement at Ethisphere, director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute and the Cyber Readiness Institute, and board member of the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors—discusses the vital role that social compliance auditing play...
2025-10-2917 min
EthicastHow Do I Build a 1-3-5 E&C Road Map?Ethics and compliance programs are often stuck in reactive mode, and the way to break out of that is to build a road map for where you see the function heading over the next year, three years, and five years. BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains how you can build a 1-3-5 road map for your E&C team.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge...
2025-10-2408 min
EthicastUnderstanding Organizational JusticeOrganizational justice examines whether employees believe the company holds wrongdoers accountable and communicates disciplinary guidelines effectively. When we talk about speakup culture, the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance program, the power of values-based leadership, and the overall health of a culture of ethics, these things often connect directly back to organizational justice.
In this episode, Malthe Helt, a Culture Analyst on the Ethisphere Data & Services team, provides his insights on how organizational justice needs to be maintained and why it sometimes feels like the most invisible part of an organization's culture.
Why organizational justice is...
2025-10-2213 min
EthicastHow Do I Use AI to Prevent Insider Trading?The SEC is using AI to detect suspicious trading patterns with unprecedented power and accuracy. So that begs the question: how can you be using AI to prevent insider traiding within your own organization? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.
Two Workers at Filing Agent to SEC Edgar Get...
2025-10-1707 min
EthicastRe-Envisioning Ethical AI on Global Ethics DayToday is Global Ethics Day, an event created by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The theme for this year’s Global Ethics Day is “Ethics, Re-Envisioned,” which captures the state of incredible transformation we find our world undergoing, and the significant ethical crises, challenges, and opportunities that present themselves to leaders every day.
And few things are changing the landscape in the field of business ethics more than artificial intelligence, which isn't just transforming the everyday realities of E&C teams. It’s prompting leaders to wonder how they can prepare for their own next big...
2025-10-1520 min
EthicastHow Do I Keep RIFs From Hurting Our Speak-Up Culture?Reductions in force (RIFs) are deeply unsettling for any workplace, often prompting remaining employees to keep a low profile in order to protect their job. Unfortunately, this can also erode their willingness to call out witnessed misconduct. In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how organizations can mitigate the impact RIFs have on speak-up culture.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is...
2025-10-1012 min
EthicastHow to Stop Retaliation Before It StartsMore than 85% of employees say that they would report an instance of workplace misconduct if they observed one. However, when the moment of truth arrives, only about half of the people who said they would report actually follow through with it. A big reason why is that for many employees, speaking up about misconduct carries the very real risk of being punished overtly or covertly by their peers and managers for it. In this episode, Ethisphere's VP of Data & Services Jodie Fredericksen and Director, Data & Services Eric Jorgenson discuss how ethics and compliance teams can implement meaningful anti-retaliation protocols...
2025-10-0815 min
EthicastWhat Are the E&C Issues of a Political Action Committee?Midterm elections in the U.S. are fast approaching, and E&C leaders who aren't already grappling with the compliance issues of organizational political activity will do so soon. In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), answers a question sent directly to the show from an audience member: What are the compliance issues of a political action committee?
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since...
2025-10-0310 min
EthicastLeveraging Residual Risk Data to Go Beyond ReportingIn this episode, we’re going to discuss inherent and residual risk with Craig Moss, executive vice president of measurement at Ethisphere and a director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute and the Cyber Readiness Institute.
Craig is a prolific thought leader, public speaker, and author on the subject of value chain, holistic risk assessment, and AI, and his most recent byline, “Leveraging Residual Risk Data to Go Beyond Reporting,” provides a fascinating look at the connections between inherent and residual business risk, and how strong controls such as compliance, and forward-thinking use of data, can create an advanced sustainability paradig...
2025-10-0117 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts: ‘Shale-Shock’ Over Stone-Skimming ScandalThe World Stone Skimming Championship was rocked by cheating this September, but speak-up culture and organizational justice saved the day. Erica Salmon Byrne skips no details as she shares how E&C leaders can use stories like these to foster employee conversations around ethics and integrity.
For plenty of free ethics and compliance resources on conflicts of interest, speak up culture, values-based leadership, and much, much more, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources
2025-09-2617 min
EthicastBoard Rapport is Greater Than Board ReportingIn this episode, Laura Jacobus, a Strategic Advisor with global technology organization Mitratech, discusses how E&C leaders can build huge value for their programs by developing the right tools and skills to deliver high-value, strategic insights to their Boards at a time when Boards themselves are looking to E&C to help manage risk and enable sustainable enterprise growth.
2:07: Why Boards are asking more of their E&C partners lately
6:13: How E&C leaders can use data to drive Board-level strategy
11:11: How the right tools can help develop the right E&C skills
14:04: How "learning the business"...
2025-09-2420 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Can I Improve My Updates to the Audit Committee?In this episode of the Ethicast, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how you improve and expand your quarterly reporting to the Audit Committee...and thereby build stronger relations between the ethics and compliance function and the Board.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams...
2025-09-1912 min
EthicastIt Pays to Take Speak Up SeriouslyIn this episode, Charles Cain, Forensic & Integrity Services managing director at Ernst & Young LLP, discusses the risks that organizations run when they fail to take their speak-up reporting seriously. Sometimes, companies either can’t—or won’t—take proper action on reports of misconduct that have been surfaced, and when that happens, the culture's sense of organizational justice suffers. Once that corrosive effect takes root within a culture it can be very, very difficult to address it before some truly unfortunate things happen.
1:52: The damage done to businesses when speak-up programs falter
2:46: Where companies drop the ball on receivin...
2025-09-1509 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Reach Non-Wired Employees?Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how you can socialize your ethics and compliance program with employees who might be out of reach of easy communications channels like e-mail or instant messaging because they're on a factory floor, traveling in areas where that connectivity is unavailable, etc.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge...
2025-09-1207 min
EthicastHow to Build Trust in Your Speak-Up ProgramAround 85% of people say they would report misconduct at work if they witnessed it, but when the moment of truth arrives, less than half actually do so. A big reason why is because people just don't trust their speak-up programs to work as they intend to do. In this episode, Gary Burke, Partner, Global Integrity & Compliance Leader, Forensic & Integrity Services, at EY, discusses how you can strengthen your company’s speak up program through solid training and trust-building.
1:42: Where trust in speak-up programs breaks down in organizations
4:56: How to extend trust-building throughout the organization
9:10: Recommended training to improve ov...
2025-09-1014 min
EthicastHow Do You Revisit Your Organization's Core Values?Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how ethics and compliance leaders can lead the charge on revisiting their organization's core values - a task that sets the foundation for ethical culture, robust compliance practices, and strong business integrity.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams...
2025-09-0508 min
EthicastNestlé CEO Ousted Over Code ViolationIn this episode of Ethicast Reacts, host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy officer Erica Salmon Byrne discuss the E&C implications of Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe's abrupt dismissal over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct report.
2025-09-0336 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts - The Failure to Prevent Fraud ActOn September 1, 2025, the failure to prevent fraud offense under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act will go into effect. This means that an organization can be held criminally liable if any employee, agent, subsidiary, or other associated person or entity commits a fraud intending to benefit the organization or its clients, if the organization did not have reasonable fraud prevention procedures in place.
On today's episode of Ethicast Reacts, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer at Ethisphere will guide us through the Failure to Prevent Fraud Act and what companies need to consider as they prepare f...
2025-08-2716 min
EthicastHow to Develop Truly Impactful E&C TrainingRunning an effective ethics and compliance training program is something most organizations really struggle with. In this episode, we speak with Christopher Annand, Senior Director - Ethics & Compliance at Cargill, a global food company and the largest privately held U.S. company in terms of revenue. Christopher has led a multi-year effort to modernize Cargill's online training components to include burst learning modules, and to adopt unified deployment strategy to improve learning outcomes and operational efficiency.
Instructional design & program architecture: the keys to great training
How Cargill's training program boosts other aspects of its E&C program
How...
2025-08-2013 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do You Prevent Anticompetitive Business Practices?BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses what a really strong antitrust or anti-competition prevention program looks like and draws upon some recent news coming out of the Department of Justice as a proof point.
This episode stems from the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.
Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member...
2025-08-1506 min
EthicastSustainability Data Should Drive Results Over ReportingSustainability reporting requirements have spawned a complex ecosystem of data gathering, measuring, and analysis. But this has trapped many organizations in a cycle where gathering sustainability data is an end unto itself. In this episode, Craig Moss (Executive Vice President, Measurement at Ethisphere, and Director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute) explains how companies can make better use of that sustainability data to drive the overall performance of the business.
2:20: By excessively focusing on reporting, companies actually create risk because they are constantly using their data to look backward into the past instead of drawing on past data...
2025-08-1315 min
EthicastHow Do I Start an Ethics Podcast?Podcasting is a great way to message and build dialogue around ethics and compliance. But how do you actually get an ethics podcast off the ground? And more importantly, how do you keep it going? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne talks about the why of starting an E&C podcast, and Ethicast host Bill Coffin offers some practical tips on the how of it.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which BELA can submit questions regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer plus helpful resources with more information. And since...
2025-08-0810 min
EthicastBringing Together Your E&C StakeholdersKimberly White, Vice President and General Counsel-Compliance at global ingredients company Ingredion shares how she launched an ambitious, enterprise-level E&C meeting series to drive strategic alignment on business integrity. And, she shares how this initiative got its start in Ingredion's application for World's Most Ethical Companies® recognition, which the company has earned an impressive 11 times.
1:38: How long it took to make this meeting a reality
3:54: How stakeholder-driven strategic planning aligns everyone around business integrity
8:59: How this initiative will inform Ingredion's 2026-2026 planning cycle
11:20: A proof point around how Ingredion's E&C has developed its voice
15:11 How the W...
2025-08-0621 min
EthicastHow Should I Message on AI Use & Policy?Erica Salmon Byrne, Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), answers a high-level member question on how E&C teams should communicate expectations around the proper use of AI and what an organization's AI policy might be. As we often say, it comes down to message, messenger, and modality.
This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which BELA can submit questions regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer plus helpful resources with more information. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level concierge questions for...
2025-08-0106 min
EthicastStrong Ethics is REALLY Good BusinessYear after year, Ethisphere's Five-Year Ethics Premium shows how much the publicly listed honorees of the World's Most Ethical Companies® outperform their peers. This year, that overage is 7.8%, which is no small number. But what if you actually invested in these companies? How much would you make simply by putting your money with companies that exemplified best practices in business integrity? A lot, it turns out.
Ethisphere's Bill Coffin breaks down a hypothetical investing experiment that clearly shows strong ethics really is good business. He takes $100,000 in imaginary money, puts into the 49 companies from the 2025 World's Most E...
2025-07-2906 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Should Managers Handle Reports of Misconduct?One of the best benefits of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) concierge service, in which members of the BELA community can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information. Since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level concierge questions for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. And in this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses an extremely important issue: how to prepare managers to respond appropriately when they receive a report of employee misconduct.
Learn more about BELA...
2025-07-2507 min
EthicastWhy the SEC Is 'Going Back to Basics'Between federal regulatory shifts and Executive orders, the ways in which companies can expect to be held accountable for misconduct are undergoing substantial change—or at the very least, significant clarification.
Baker McKenzie partner and former SEC assistant regional director Peter Chan recently spoke with Kate Zoladz, Deputy Director (West) of the Enforcement Division of the SEC, and shares his valuable insights from that conversation around the SEC's current enforcement priorities.
1:31: A pivot "back to basics," away from novel legal theory prosecutions
4:29: A new focus on rewarding cooperation and remediation
8:21: The SEC's era of “broken windows” enforc...
2025-07-2317 min
EthicastBELA Asks: Guidance for Serving on Outside BoardsFor many executives, a natural part of their professional progression is to serve on boards of directors outside of their primary place of employment, be it at another company in a different industry, or an organization that connects to something in their personal life. In all such cases, however, there's an ethics and compliance component to how that kind of relationship should be handled. And in this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne provides helpful guidance for how serving on an outside board doesn't have to be a major compliance headache.
Learn more about BELA: https...
2025-07-1806 min
EthicastUnderstanding the Dark Pattern of MisconductIn this episode, we speak with Guido Palazzo, professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne and his book, The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals, which identifies nine toxic elements—a so-called “dark pattern”—that lead to corporate scandals. And, it offers nine actionable lessons—or a “bright pattern”—for building morally resilient organizations.
2:04: Identifying the "dark pattern" that unites the worst corporate scandals
4:41: Addressing the systemic cultural issues that get companies in trouble
7:06: Handling the psychological impact that scandals have on employees
10:05: Rejecting the dark pattern for a bright pat...
2025-07-1614 min
2025-07-1105 min
EthicastWhy Compliance Training Fails (And What You Can Do About It) with Avangrid's Andrew JacobsIn today's episode, we sit down with Andrew Jacobs, Chief Compliance Officer of Avangrid Networks. Andrew recently published a paper entitled, "Why Compliance Training Fails," and in it he outlines the major pitfalls that compliance programs are facing with their training. He looks into studies on human behavior and real life studies that parallel some of the issues organizations face with the failure to comply. He also gives great guidance on ways compliance practicioners can evolve their compliance training to greater effectivness. It was a wonderful, inspiring conversation, and we hope you enjoy it!1:45 - The groundwork fo...
2025-07-0921 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Prepare for the UK/France/Swiss Anticorruption Alliance?You've got questions, we've got answers! In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne answers another question from the membership of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance about the global trends shaping ABAC regulation: How should companies prepare for the new UK/France/Swiss ABAC alliance?
UK Announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-france-and-switzerland-announce-new-anti-corruption-alliance
Learn more about BELA: https://www.ethisphere.com/bela
Ethisphere Resource Center: https://www.ethisphere.com/resources
2025-06-2706 min
EthicastBELA Asks: What Does a Good Antitrust Program Look Like?In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers another question from the membership of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) to the benefit of E&C practitioners everywhere. And this time, it's about regulation: What does a good antitrust program look like?
2025-06-2509 min
FCPA Compliance Report#Risk New York Speaker Series- Ethicast Reacts: Unpacking Compliance Challenges with Erica Salmon Bryne and Bill CoffinJoin Tom Fox and hundreds of other GRC professionals in the city that never sleeps, New York City, on July 9 & 10 for one of the top conferences around, #Risk New York. The current US landscape, shaped by evolving policies, rapid advancements in AI, and shifting global dynamics, demands adaptive strategies and cross-functional collaboration.
At #RISK New York, you will master the New Regulatory Reality by getting ahead of US regulatory shifts and their impact. Conquer AI and Tech Risk by Safeguarding Your Organization in an AI-Driven World and Understanding the Implications of Major Tech Investments. Navigate Financial and Crypto...
2025-06-1810 min
EthicastUnderstanding the Latest Ethics Quotient UpdatesEthisphere's Ethics Quotient (EQ) questionnaire is a comprehensive evaluation of an applicant’s ethics and compliance program, culture, and governance practices, and it forms the core of the applications process for the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition. On June 30, Ethisphere will release the revised EQ, giving prospective applicants a month to review its changes and prepare for the applications process. In this episode Ethisphere Director, Data & Services, Neal Thurston explains the updating process and what it means for you.
Request application information for the 2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies: https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com
Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/re...
2025-06-1709 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts - Embezzlement at the Detroit River ConservancyAn embezzlement case of epic proportions shines a bright light on the importance of internal controls and speak-up culture, as federal prosecutors seek a sentence of 18 years for the former Detroit Riverfront Conservancy CFO William Smith for embezzling $44.3 million from the nonprofit over 10 years. Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, offers some much-neededethics and compliance context on what we can learn from this oversight failure, and how to prevent it at your organization.
Ethisphere Resource Center: https://www.ethisphere.com/resources
News link: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/04/14/how-former-detroit-riverfront-cfo-embezzled-40-million-undetected-for-over-a-decade/
News...
2025-06-1311 min
EthicastInside Convatec's Next-Level Compliance WeekAs a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer in the highly regulated medical products industry, Convatec invests a considerable amount of time and energy into its Compliance Week program as a keystone event to advancing compliance across the organization, and further Convatec's culture of integrity. Convatec Deputy Chief Compliance Officer Chris Corallo explains how his team executes it.
How Do I Plan a Global Ethics & Compliance Week?: https://youtu.be/R36FsMgpH2g?si=UAmxEuvy7WI9tB7b
What Are Fresh Ideas for a 2025 Ethics Week?: https://youtu.be/-Q8KfxsKjhY?si=K9GeioCDGhEjOEBU
Be a guest on the...
2025-06-1114 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Should I Manage Material Risk-Takers?Our latest question from the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) membership asks, what are ethics and compliance best practices when it comes to managing an organization's "material risk-takers?" BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne has the answer.
For guest access to BELA: https://ethisphere.com/bela
Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/resources
2025-06-0607 min
EthicastDevelop & Grow Your Champions NetworkIn this episode, Matt Silverman, author of The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization, shares best practices for how you can start, develop, and grow an ethics and compliance champions network where you work. Champions networks are a proven way to broaden the reach of ethics and compliance programs and embed compliance into an organization’s culture.
Get The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/u8ej5w3c
Ethisphere Resource Center: ht...
2025-06-0423 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Check for Retaliation?In this BELA Asks episode of the Ethicast, Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, explains how you can detect signs of post-investigation or post-survey retaliation within your organization.
Learn more about BELA: https://bela.ethisphere.com/
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2025-05-3010 min
EthicastHow Ethical Leadership Builds ValueIn this episode of the Ethicast, Brian Peckrill, Executive Director of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, discusses the unique value that ethical leadership builds for organizations during these challenging and turbulent times.
1:26: Why staying true to your values builds value
3:41: The stages of moral development in business
7:03: Don't worry - the E&C discipline is here to stay
10:47: Details on the 2025 Ethical Leader of the Year Award
Learn more about the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund: https://williamgmcgowanfund.org
Free ethics and compliance resources: https://ethisphere.com/resource-search/
Find out how to...
2025-05-2812 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Roll Out Manager Toolkits?In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), shares insights on how to effectively communicate and implement manager toolkits for ethics and compliance.
Learn more about BELA: https://bela.ethisphere.com/
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2025-05-2307 min
EthicastInside Marelli's Program Maturity JourneyIn this episode, Craig Moss, EVP, Measurement at Ethisphere interviews Yasuyoshi Goto, SVP Global Compliance and APAC Legal at Marelli, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. Goto-san shares his insights on how Marelli has made significant improvements to its global ethics and compliance program, and how partnering with Ethisphere made that work possible.
1:40: Prioritizing which program improvements to pursue
3:33: Launching a champion program with Turkey as the pilot country
7:55: Aggregating risk across business units for a global view of risk
15:11: Focusing on supply chain due diligence
18:08: Implementing a "measure & improve" strategy
Learn more about Ethisphere...
2025-05-2121 min
EthicastNon-AI Tech & Regulatory Trends in E&CIn this episode, Haima Marlier, a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Group and co-chair of its Fintech practice, highlights some of the emerging technology issues compliance teams should focus on (that aren't AI), as well as a clear-eyed perspective on what regulatory enforcement realities persist (especially on the state level) despite the ongoing political turmoil in Washington.
Non-AI tech issues impacting E&C today
Uptick in securities enforcement within "blue states" during the FCPA enforcement pause
Will SEC and DOJ enforcement remain relevant? Yes. Is the risk of private litigation being overlooked? Also, yes
2025-05-1415 minEthicastBELA Asks - What Are Great Employee Listening Strategies?In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers another great question from our BELA members: What employee listening strategies really make a difference? (Hint: It has something to do with playing the game "Last Word.")
2025-05-0907 min
EthicastBest Practices in M&A Due DiligenceAnna Grover, Global Compliance Counsel, for two-time World’s Most Ethical Companies honoree Assurant, explains how she approaches the complex issue of mergers & acquisitions due diligence through the lens of ethics and compliance.
The role of ethics and compliance in mergers and acquisitions
When it's actually a good thing for compliance to not find a problem
The importance of proactive M&A due diligence
Building strong relationships within the deal team
Learn more about Assurant, including its corporate citizenship, latest insights, and more at: www.assurant.com
To see Assurant’s spot among its fellow Worl...
2025-05-0711 minEthicastEthicast Reacts - Kohl's CEO Termination & NFL PrankgateIn this live episode of the Ethicast, we cover the termination of Kohl's CEO Ashley Buchanan for cause, and an embarrassing data security lapse for the NFL.
2025-05-0227 min
EthicastAt FirstEnergy, Ethics Powers ExcellenceFirstEnergy is one of the largest investor-owned electric systems in the United States. In this episode, Brian X. Tierney, FirstEnergy Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Antonio Fernández, Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, discuss their efforts to build a best-in-class ethics and compliance program that has earned the company Ethisphere's coveted Compliance Leader Verification designation for 2025-2026.
FirstEnergy's long-term view of their ethics maturity journey
How support from senior leadership moves the needle
Engaging middle managers to be E&C's front line
Advice for prioritizing strategic E&C initiatives
Learn more: https://w...
2025-04-3013 min
EthicastBELA Asks: What Is a Good Post-Benchmarking Action Plan?Organizations that benchmark their ethics and compliance programs against their peers often stumble on what to do with their benchmarking data, and what next steps should look like. To that end, Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers the question: What is a good post-benchmarking action plan?
For guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela
2025-04-2506 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts: New UK SFO Self-Reporting GuidanceThe UK's Serious Fraud Office has issued new guidance around what constitutes "cooperation" and best practice around self-reporting of misconduct with regards to securing a deferred prosecution agreement. We look at the wording of the guidance, alignment with other regulatory standards, and key takeways for E&C teams.
SFO Guidance text: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfo-corporate-guidance/sfo-corporate-guidance
Deferred ProsecutionAgreements Code of Practice https://www.cps.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/publications/DPA-COP.pdf
Failure to prevent offences: A comparative guide https://www.dlapiper.com/-/media/project/dlapiper-tenant/dlapiper/pdf...
2025-04-2420 min
EthicastHow to Develop Your Leadership and Character SkillsMeredith Bell, co-founder and president of leadership training company Grow Strong Leaders (and podcast of the same name) shares her insights on how leaders can strengthen their character and communication skills to inspire others to perform at the highest level.
Everybody thinks they're better communicators than they really are
Mile markers to measure your growth as a communicator
The 36 character aspects to develop to become a great leader
Leadership opportunities in our current business environment
Grow Strong Leaders website: https://growstrongleaders.com/
Grow Strong Leaders podcast: https://growstrongleaders.com/podcasts/
Grow Strong Leaders...
2025-04-2315 min
EthicastEthicast Reacts: What the DOJ's Bulk Data Rule Means for YouOn April 8, the U.S. Department of Justice implemented its Final Rule prohibiting or significantly restricting the transfer of U.S. Government-related data, and bulk U.S. personal data to China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
What’s driving the rule are concerns over unfriendly actors using U.S. personal bulk data to train AI and thereby gain insight on Americans’ everyday behaviors. Its broad scope, however has significant compliance implications, especially for healthcare, global operations, and any entity handling sensitive personal data.
Why the DOJ is making this a priority
Impacts on orgs alre...
2025-04-1808 min
EthicastHow to Craft a Training Program That Really ConnectsMany organizations really struggle with their ethics and compliance training and communications programs, relying on methods that are outdated, ineffective, or just plain cringey.
Roxanne Petraeus, CEO of Ethena, and Susan Divers, Ethena advisor and renowned E&C expert, speak to how organizations can better equip their employees to absorb compliance, drive ethical culture, and forge success.
1:58: Changing perceptions around managers as arbiters of culture
4:15: Communicating with people managers around organizational values
8:11: How to build a truly impactful training, communications, and culture program
Learn more about Ethical Management, a...
2025-04-0512 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Make the Most Out of BELA Day?The 2025 Global Ethics Summit is upon us! And the first day of it is a special program dedicated specifically for the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance! So the big question is...How do I make the most out of BELA Day? Erica Salmon Byrne has the answers.
There's still time to register for the Global Ethics Summit, especially if you want to attend virtually! Take a look at the event agenda and register at https://events.ethisphere.com/e/2025-Global-Ethics-Summit
For guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement D...
2025-04-0407 min
EthicastHow AI Can Transform Your Monitoring & Investigations TodayParth Chanda, Executive Vice President, Risk and Compliance Transformation, of Case IQ, shares actionable insights on how ethics and compliance programs can implement AI into their programs' workflow and gain massive efficiencies, especially around monitoring and investigations.
AI's impact upon traditional ethics and compliance functions
AI use cases for AI in E&C—particularly monitoring and investigations
Challenges to keep in mind while crafting and E&C AI strategy
How to demystify AI and set expectations around its implementation
Learn more about AI use vases for monitoring and investigations: www.CaseIQ.com.
2025-04-0215 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Know If My E&C Team Is Adequately Funded?BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers another question from the membership of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance: How do I know if my E&C team is adequately staffed or funded?
For guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela
2025-03-2805 min
EthicastHow AI Can Upscale Your Supply Chain Risk ManagementThis is the second episode of a two-part series on how AI is transforming best practices in supply chain risk management.
In the first episode of this series, we learned how AI and Generative AI turns the traditional cylinder-shaped data stream of supply chain risk issues into the shape of an hourglass, where AI-driven practices can create a pinch point in the middle that makes supply chain details far more manageable.
Craig Moss, Executive Vice President, Measurement at Ethisphere, and noted AI researcher Dave Ferrucci discuss how to use all of that data to inform...
2025-03-2524 min
EthicastBELA Asks: What Should a Code of Conduct Look Like in 2025?A great benefit of being a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is its concierge service, in which members can pose their ethics and compliance questions to our internal experts. Many of these questions broadly apply to all E&C teams, however, and in this episode, BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What should a code of conduct look like in 2025?
For guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela.
2025-03-2109 min
EthicastHow ServiceNow ‘Wins the Right Way’ on Engaging EthicsAt ServiceNow—a provider of AI-driven, automated business workflows—there is no room for error, especially around customer trust, data security, personal privacy, and global regulation. Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer John Castelly shares why his team has gone all-in on creating a compelling Code of Ethics, impactful training, and employing storytelling in a powerful combination. The result is a top-performing Ethics and Compliance program that recently earned ServiceNow the honor of being named one of the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies.
ServiceNow’s Code of Ethics & their “Win the Right Way” concept
Using Q&A to impart training les...
2025-03-1909 min
EthicastBELA Asks: Using Ambassadors to Get Culture DataA great benefit of being a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is its concierge service, in which members can pose their ethics and compliance questions to our internal experts. Many of these questions broadly apply to all E&C teams, however, and in this episode, BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I use my ambassador program to gain data points about our culture?
For guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director, visit https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela.
2025-03-1408 min
EthicastIntroducing the 2025 World's Most Ethical CompaniesErica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) explains how this year's honorees exemplify the changing nature of best practices in business integrity. Also: a look at the numbers within the Five-Year Ethics Premium, and advice for companies that want to apply for next year's recognition.
Top takeaways from this year's honorees
Where best-in-class E&C programs are investing their time, energy, and resources
How the Five-Year Ethics Premium shows that integrity creates value
Why the World's Most Ethical Companies recognition matters now more than ever
2025-03-1225 min
EthicastBELA Asks: What Are Fresh Ideas for a 2025 Ethics Week?Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, shares her thoughts on how you can make your 2025 Ethics Week fresh, compelling, and impactful.
Visit https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela/ to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director. And if you have a question that you’d like answered on this program, contact the BELA Concierge Service, and we’ll get to work on it for you.
2025-03-0711 min
EthicastLearn How Strong AI Governance Improves AI ItselfIn this episode, Dr. Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler, who leads the Data & AI practice for EY Middle East/North Africa, shares how organizations can maximize their value with AI by building a strong framework around the tech to determine its use case, who is responsible for it, and how its inherent risks will be managed.
1:28: Ethics and compliance's role in a world where AI is everywhere
4:35: How to robust AI governance amid uncertain AI compliance regs
7:01: Building an AI framework that maximizes value and minimizes risk
To explore EY’s global insights on ho...
2025-03-0511 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Drive Tone at the Top in Today's Business Environment?The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics and compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, benchmarking, events, and resources. Its concierge service allows members to submit any question regarding ethics & compliance. And since there is no competition in compliance, we’re using this program to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne discusses how organizations can promote values-driven leadership at a time of heightened backlash.
2025-02-2806 min
Ethicast'Ferrer for Good' Unites Social Impact and Business SuccessFerrer is a global pharma company that develops products for hospitals clinics, and the non-prescription, self-care market. Under its mission of "Ferrer for Good," the organization treats social justice, environmental sustainability, and community connection as strategic initiatives. Meanwhile, its dedication to a best-in-class corporate culture and ethics & compliance program has earned the company Ethisphere's coveted Compliance Leader Verification designation. In this episode, Ferrer’s Chief Legal Officer, Meritxell Casas discusses the value the Ethics and Compliance team delivers to Ferrer's overall performance and why it places such a high premium on integrity.
How Ferrer's E&C team delivers va...
2025-02-2613 min
EthicastBELA Asks: 3 Questions on Speak-Up CultureIn this episode, we revisit three questions around the health and well-being of any organization's speak-up culture:
How Do I Convince HR to Conduct a Speak-Up Survey?
How Do I Craft a Good Non-Retaliation Policy?
What is Organizational Justice & How Can I Promote It?
2025-02-2117 min
EthicastHow AI Helps Key Partners Manage Supply Chain RiskArtificial intelligence is continuing to revolutionize the way in which organizations can manage their supply chain risk and due diligence process. This episode is part 1 of a 2-part series in which we’ll look at the importance of gaining visibility into how well your key suppliers manage their risk and how you can use this data to harness the power of AI.
In this episode, we'll hear from Craig Moss, Executive Vice President, Measurement at Ethisphere and Patrick Neyts, CEO and Strategic Advisor of VECTRA International on how the data collected in assessing the residual risk of a...
2025-02-2022 min
Ethicast4 Secrets to a Successful Culture SurveyCulture is as complicated as it is vital. Which is why we have focused the latest issue of Ethisphere Magazine on the finer points of culture measurement, with insights from the Ethisphere Data & Services team on how updates to the Culture Quotient questionnaire will make your surveys more successful, how using shorter, more frequent pulse surveys can help you dial in on particular areas of your culture, and four pieces of hard-won wisdom from the team on what separates a good culture survey experience from a great one.
To appear as a guest on the Ethicast, contact bill...
2025-02-1209 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Create Ethics & Compliance-Themed Executive Slides?The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics and compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, program benchmarking, roundtable events, and a resource library with hundreds of policy guidance documents, member-contributed program examples, and more.
One of the most popular aspects of BELA membership is our concierge service, in which members can submit any question at all regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer and helpful resources with further information. And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in...
2025-02-0707 min
EthicastA Sneak-Peek into Global Ethics Summit 2025In this episode of the Ethicast, we speak with Emily Rickaby, Ethisphere's Director of Shared Expertise and Strategic Projects to get the "inside-scoop" into what's in store at Global Ethics Summit this year.
This year marks Ethisphere’s 16th annual Global Ethics Summit, or GES as we like to call it! GES is Ethisphere’s annual, global event to bring together leaders who are passionate about ethics and compliance and advancing ethical culture within their organizations, communities, and the world. This year, April 6-8 in Atlanta and virtually, we will spend 3 days listening, learning, and sharing best prac...
2025-02-0513 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Plan a Fraud Communications Campaign?The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics and compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, program benchmarking, roundtable events, and a resource library with hundreds of policy guidance documents, member-contributed program examples, and more. One of the most popular aspects of BELA membership is our concierge service, in which members can submit any question at all regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer and helpful resources with further information. And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, wh...
2025-01-3108 min
EthicastHow Workday Masters the Craft of Ethics StorytellingChristina Won is no stranger to storytelling. As Leader—Learning Center within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Affairs department of Workday, an on-demand financial management and human capital management software vendor, Christina is known for her ability to weave her natural love for storytelling into her work as a way to drive employee engagement with Workday’s ethics and compliance program—which, by the way, has earned Workday three-time World’s Most Ethical Companies® honors.
Why storytelling matters in E&C
How Workday tells its stories
Beginner's Guide to Code of Conduct Training
Why voice matters in ethics writing
A special cameo at...
2023-11-2800 min
EthicastHow to Navigate Evolving Cybersecurity RegulationsIn this Ethicast exclusive, Karen Evans, Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute and Gregg Sofer, partner with Husch Blackwell take a deep dive into the ongoing trends and specificities of cybersecurity, particularly when it comes to the SEC's expectations. Join Karen and Gregg as they discuss critical compliance issues and risk management around:
What defines a material cybersecurity incident
When the 4-day time limit for public companies to disclose a cyber incident really begins
How cybersecurity's place within an org impacts the Board's ability to assess risk
How much you should really disclose
What is the right balance between...
2023-11-2200 min
EthicastWhat the FDIC’s Toxic Workplace Culture Can Teach UsOn November 13, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report by Rebecca Ballhaus detailing a pervasive toxic culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, the federal agency that oversees the stability of the U.S. banking system. The report involved interviews with more than 100 FDIC employees and detailed a gruesome record of misbehavior, including misogyny, sexual harassment, alcohol abuse, managerial neglect, speak-up retaliation, and more. Joining us to offer her expert insight on what lessons ethics and compliance professionals can learn from the situation at the FDIC is Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon By...
2023-11-1700 min
EthicastPress X to Continue: What Video Games Can Teach Us About EthicsIn this episode, Ethisphere's Editor in Chief Bill Coffin talks about culture and second chances in an editorial entitled Press X to Continue, which is the prompt that video games give their players to enable them to keep playing after their game ends.
This is a companion piece to "Serious Fun," an in-depth interview with Jen Brewer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at video game giant Activision Blizzard King (ABK), which appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Ethisphere Magazine. The interview showcases the brilliant things Jen and her team are achieving at ABK, which recently concluded a historic merger with Mi...
2023-11-1500 min
EthicastThe SBF Verdict and How Crypto Can Benefit from Better RegulationEthisphere’s Chief Strategy officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne offers her insight and expertise to understand the implications and lessons to be learned from the historic guilty verdict of "crypto king" Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX, and the latest addition to the financial world's rogue's gallery.
What the speed of this prosecution tells us
How this compares to other historic white collar criminal cases
The connection to Alameda Research means in all of this
When an org chart is just a shell game
SDNY does not kid around when it comes to white collar cr...
2023-11-1400 min
EthicastBELA Asks: How Do I Train My Board?In this special Ethicast series, BELA Asks, we address specific questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I train my Board of Directors?
Where to begin with training a Board of Directors
How to avoid the trap of Board updates masquerading as Board training
Why it pays to develop a strong relationship with the Corporate Secretary when it comes to getting Board access
2023-11-0300 min
EthicastEthics Really Is a Laughing MatterTrying to engage people on ethics and compliance is tough work—just ask anyone who has ever had to come up with ideas for their next training or communications campaign. But for Tyler Dean Kempf, Creative Director of Second City Works, the secret is to make business integrity something that is genuinely funny. Tyler is an award-winning Second City-trained improviser, writer, director, and learning facilitator and is one of the comedy masterminds behind Real Biz Shorts, the world's largest collection of comedic short videos dedicated to risk areas in ethics and compliance.
How humor boosts messaging and retention
What the co-c...
2023-11-0100 min
EthicastThe Resignation of BP’s Bernard Looney and CEO AccountabilityIn this Ethicast Reacts episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne provides some much-needed context around the abrupt departure of BP CEO Bernard Looney on September 13 and how it exemplifies the changing expectations that Boards of Directors have when it comes to CEO behavior.
Board expectations are changing around CEO accountability
Formal and informal systems that can help prevent CEO misbehavior
What the 2023 Ethics Quotient expects from Board governance
2023-10-2700 min
EthicastMahindra Executive Leaders: A Way Forward to Rise Above the CompetitionIn an exclusive South Asia Ethicast interview, Ethicast's Aarti Maharaj speaks with Ruzbeh Irani - President - Group HR, The Mahindra Group and Rajesh Jejurikar, Executive Director and CEO, Auto and Farm Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd on the topic of ethical leadership.
Ruzbeh and Rajesh provided executive keynote remarks at the virtual 2023 South Asia Ethics Summit, which brought together leaders from across the region on Oct 12-13 to share ideas and provide practical guidance around culture, ethics and compliance, new practices in PoSH compliance, data privacy, the evolving ESG landscape, as well as place a spotlight on companies working together t...
2023-10-2500 min
EthicastBELA Asks: What Goes Into a Good Multi-Year Compliance Plan?In this special Ethicast series, BELA Asks, we address specific questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What does a good multi-year compliance plan look like, and what goes into one?
2023-10-2000 min
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2020-03-0913 min