Compliance Program Acceleration for Retailers
Overcome ethics and compliance challenges, access program and peer data, and stay ahead of shifting regulatory expectations. Join a global community of experts, and transform your program with unparalleled insights and collaboration with industry leaders.
Real Results, Retail Compliance
The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global community of companies dedicated to raising the bar on ethics and compliance. BELA empowers retailers through exclusive access to industry expertise, proven peer strategies, and practical data to strengthen compliance programs.
Learn how leading retailers leverage BELA to mitigate risk, foster a culture of integrity, and drive tangible improvements. Explore their stories and discover how BELA can drive your program forward.
Benchmark and learn from the
2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies®
Join us in Atlanta in April 2025 to connect with ethics and compliance leaders at the Global Ethics Summit, where real-world challenges and solutions take center stage. You’ll walk away with usable insights, new connections, and practical ideas to strengthen your company’s culture and compliance efforts.
Retailers are Facing Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Ethics and compliance leaders in retail face a rapidly evolving business landscape and are under increasing pressure from regulators, consumers, and leadership. E&C teams face a multitude of challenges, from accessing reliable data, ensuring your program aligns with your peers, adapting to shifting regulations and supply chain complexities.
Lack of Data to Support Decision-Making
Make informed decisions by leveraging the world’s leading compliance dataset. Our platform delivers over 200 data points and provides insight into the practices of other retailers. BELA’s real-time insights and evidence empower you to prioritize program improvements, get stakeholder buy-in and enhance operational efficiency.
Adapting to Evolving Regulatory Expectations
Keep pace with complex and constantly changing regulatory landscapes with expert guidance and up-to-date information from BELA. Stay at the leading edge of industry standards with expert resources and data to support regulatory adherence, a network of retailers to problem solve with, and proven resources to action on program initiatives.
Visibility into Supply Chain Risk
Managing supply chain risk is increasingly critical for companies, especially retailers. Ethisphere helps you mitigate these risks with insights into supplier compliance, ethical sourcing, data protection, and regulatory adherence. With visibility into your supply chain, you can identify high-risk suppliers, proactively address inherent and residual risks, and build a more resilient supply network.
Limited Team Capacity
Save time and manage compliance more effectively with BELA’s support. Tap into the lived experiences of our community and access time-saving resources to streamline your efforts, improve faster, and reduce the burden on your E&C team. The BELA member hub contains expert-created templates and real-life examples of how retailers around the world are solving their compliance challenges.
Hear From Leaders Who Trust BELA
“I think that for any company that is seriously committed to ethics, operating responsibly, and sustainability for their stakeholders, the process and the methodology is best in class. I would highly recommend it to companies that are looking to start an ethics and compliance program and for companies that have been at it for a long time and want to see how they can improve.”
– Kathrin Belliveau, EVP & Chief Purpose Officer, Hasbro, Inc.
At Ethisphere, we empower companies to succeed
by turning ethics and compliance into a competitive advantage.
Ethisphere helps companies succeed by turning strong ethics and compliance into a business advantage that builds trust and reduces risks. We identify best practices based on guidance, expertise and leading approaches; enable organizations to compare their program to peer practices and expectations; and provide the tools and resources to drive improvements and impact. We bring together top practitioners to collaborate and share the ways that they have solved compliance challenges. In short, we tell you where your program stands, where it needs to go, and how to get there.
The result: your team can efficiently improve your program to build trust, mitigate risk, and drive stakeholder value.
