Accelerate Your Private Company Ethics & Compliance Program with Expertise, Peer Insights, and Actionable Data.
Large private, family-owned, and private equity-backed companies trust Ethisphere to navigate ethics and compliance challenges, access credible data, and stay ahead of evolving regulatory expectations. Through the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), you connect with peers facing similar ownership dynamics, learn from proven practices, and move faster with support that respects lean teams and ambitious growth goals.
Real Results for Private and Public Enterprises
The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global community of companies committed to advancing ethics and compliance practices. Through BELA, leaders at privately held, family-controlled, and PE-backed organizations gain access to practical insights, peer-developed resources, and data to help them strengthen culture, reduce risk, and prepare for scrutiny from regulators, lenders, and future buyers. Explore how leading organizations work with Ethisphere and consider how your team can apply the same playbook.
Benchmark and learn from the
2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies®
The 2026 E&C Metrics and Reporting Guide
Developed in partnership with SAI360, this guide spotlights the metrics and benchmarks that signal real effectiveness: the ones leading private and public companies use to strengthen credibility, earn executive support, and communicate impact with confidence.
The Challenges Facing Ethics and Compliance Teams in Private Enterprises
Large private, family-owned, and PE-backed companies face many of the same legal and regulatory expectations as their public peers, often with smaller central teams and less visibility into how comparable organizations operate. You must align to frameworks such as DOJ guidance, protect reputation in the eyes of customers and lenders, and demonstrate that ethics and compliance support enterprise value and exit readiness. Yet access to credible benchmarks, targeted regulatory insight, and practical implementation resources can be limited.
Limited Data to Support Decision-Making Across Private and Portfolio Companies
For many private enterprises, program decisions rely on internal metrics, individual adviser input, or isolated enforcement examples. It is difficult to see how your program compares to peers or to benchmark across a set of portfolio companies. BELA and The Sphere provide access to the world’s leading ethics and compliance dataset, with more than 240 program datapoints and one of the largest ethical culture datasets available. This gives you concrete evidence to refine your program, calibrate expectations across entities, and build stakeholder confidence.
Keeping Up with Evolving Regulatory Expectations
Private ownership does not reduce regulatory expectations. Authorities, lenders, rating agencies, and strategic partners expect your program to reflect current guidance on culture, third-party risk, data privacy, and more. BELA connects you to expert commentary, global benchmarks, and a community of practitioners who are actively interpreting developments such as DOJ guidance and emerging global standards. You gain practical, up-to-date insight that helps you anticipate expectations, respond with confidence, and align your private governance model with leading practice.
Limited Team Capacity in High-Expectations Environments
Private and PE-backed companies often operate with lean ethics and compliance teams responsible for multiple regions, portfolio companies, or operating units. Building new policies, metrics, and communications from scratch is not sustainable. BELA gives you access to expert-created templates, member-contributed examples, and targeted working groups so that you can scale your impact without adding headcount. You spend less time reinventing materials and more time collaborating with leadership, managing risk, and driving culture outcomes.
Hear From Leaders Who Trust BELA
“One of the things I love about Ethisphere is it gives me a roadmap to present a two, three-year plan to program maturity and effectiveness. It’s not just about what I need to do to improve my program but also how and aligning with our peers in the industry who are doing it the best.”
– Hemma Lomax, Former VP, Associate General Counsel, Global Integrity, Governance and Compliance Zendesk
At Ethisphere, we empower companies to succeed
by turning ethics and compliance into a competitive advantage.
We help privately held, family-owned, and PE-backed organizations define what a strong ethics and compliance program looks like, based on regulatory guidance, peer practices, and real culture data. With access to unmatched benchmarking, a like-minded community, and proven resources, your team can quickly understand where the program stands, prioritize the right actions, and map out a defensible improvement plan. BELA connects you with senior practitioners and experts who share what works in environments just like yours, so you can build trust, reduce risk, and support long-term value creation.
