2026 Ethics & Compliance Benchmarking Report
See where you stand.
Know where to go next.
Request a custom benchmark report built around the ethics and compliance program signals that matter most for your industry and priorities. Benchmark your ethics & compliance program against peers and Fortune 500 leaders. See where you stand, what’s missing, and how to strengthen every part of your program.
- Prove Your Program’s Effectiveness
- Identify Strengths & Prioritize Gaps
- Implement Proven Tools & Processes
Your industry. Our data.
Best-in-class benchmarks.
The Custom Benchmark Report provides ethics & compliance benchmarking into a clear, executive-ready view, showing how peer and best-in-class programs compare across the signals that matter to you. Use it to ground internal conversations, pressure-test assumptions, and identify the areas worth exploring next.
What You’ll Get
- Custom benchmark report showing peer patterns and best-in-class references across selected key program elements
- 30-minute live readout to interpret patterns and implications
- Obligation-free access to the Ethisphere Platform for deeper exploration
What’s In The Report?
We’ll tailor an industry-relevant benchmark report covering key metrics every program should prioritize and improve in a focused strategy call. You’ll receive a custom PDF plus a live readout, with guest access to Ethisphere’s platform to dig deeper.
140+
Benchmark Data Points Selected From
Across the entire ethics & compliance program signals leaders track most—so you can focus on what matters most.
10+
Industries Covered
Built for industry-relevant peer context, so “good” reflects your operating reality.
Custom Report
Presented To You
A tailored PDF benchmark report and expert-led readout that you can immediately action from.
Full Data Access
Provided To You
Receive guest access to The Sphere to explore even more views and context.
Trusted by Leaders
Around the World
Joe Rodgers
Senior Vice President, E&C
Eaton Corporation
Samantha Vaughan
Chief Privacy Officer
Verisk
Antonio Fernandez
VP, Chief Compliance Officer
FirstEnergy
About Ethisphere
Why the World’s Leaders Rely on Us
For nearly two decades, Ethisphere has helped organizations like yours measure and improve the compliance and cultural practices that win business and manage risk.
We know that ethics isn’t abstract. It’s operational, measurable, and essential to your strategy. We’ve seen firsthand what happens when organizations build strong cultures of integrity. They draw top talent. They forge lasting partnerships. And they create loyal customers.
And when they don’t? Criminal investigations. Regulatory penalties and legal costs. Toxic cultures. The kind of things that can cost your company years of growth overnight.
We Build Solutions That Work
You don’t need another theory or checklist. You need a program that delivers results. Our proven processes are developed through out work with CECOs and leaders at Fortune 500 organizations globally and are backed by the most comprehensive ethics and compliance dataset in the world. We show companies how strong they really are, where to improve, and how to deliver undeniable ROI on the value of doing what’s right.
Ethisphere sets the standard for the world’s most trusted companies. Our frameworks and insights come directly from working with global business leaders and give us unique clarity on how you can develop the ethical behaviors that drive business performance.
FAQs
Ethisphere helps organizations measure and improve the ethics, compliance, and culture practices that empower business performance and manage risk. For over two decades, we’ve worked with CECOs, GCs, and risk leaders to turn ethics from an abstract ideal into an operational, measurable part of strategy. Our frameworks, tools, data, and expertise show you how strong your program is, where you can improve it, and how to demonstrate the ROI on doing what’s right.
We partner with large and complex organizations around the world, including many Fortune 500 companies, as well as mid-sized and emerging enterprises. Our core stakeholders are senior leaders responsible for ethics, compliance, legal, and risk who need to present defensible, data-backed programs to regulators, boards, and investors. If you’re responsible for conduct and culture across a global enterprise, you are who we’re built for.
Ethisphere combines data-driven platforms, expert-led assessments, and a global community:
Our program and culture assessments benchmark you against regulatory expectations and leading practices.
Our analytics and tools provide strategic insights powered by the world’s most comprehensive ethics and compliance dataset.
Our Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) connects you with hundreds of peer companies and unlocks access to proven resources used to elevate programs
Together, these give you a practical roadmap—not just a checklist—to strengthen your program and culture.
We start by evaluating how your program performs against our proven assessment frameworks, expectations from regulators and the latest enforcement guidance. Then we benchmark you against a global dataset built from decades of work with leading organizations from around the world, including the World’s Most Ethical Companies®. The result is a clear, prioritized view of strengths, gaps, and opportunities so you can focus your resources where they reduce risk and create the most value.
We treat culture as something you can measure and manage. Our culture assessments deploy surveys that gather employee data on critical dimensions like trust, willingness to speak up, comfort raising concerns, and perceptions of fairness—across geographies, business units, and demographic groups. Our team of experts analyzes your results and benchmarks them against our database of millions of employee responses for a clear understanding of where your culture is enabling performance and where it’s creating risk. And then, we provide you with practical guidance for next steps and the tools you’ll need to strengthen integrity, reduce misconduct risk, and support talent retention.
The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global community of companies committed to advancing business integrity. Members get access to benchmark data, practical resources, peer-contributed policies and frameworks, and working sessions with leaders facing similar challenges. Instead of starting from scratch, your team can tap into what’s already working at other leading organizations and adapt proven approaches to your context. The BELA community lives by the credo that “there is no competition in compliance.”
Ethisphere approaches business ethics as a measurable, repeatable, and scalable practice that can make your company better, stronger, and more successful. Our solutions are practical, not theoretical. And they are powered by the world’s largest ethics and compliance dataset, combined with nearly 20 years of experience working alongside CECOs and senior leaders. We focus on helping you show clear impact: stronger cultures of integrity, reduced risk, and a compelling, data-backed story for leadership, regulators, and stakeholders.
Organizations that work with Ethisphere gain a sharper view of how their E&C program and culture are really performing, along with a clear roadmap for how to strengthen both. That better equips you to prevent misconduct, respond to regulatory scrutiny, and avoid the reputational and financial damage that comes with weak cultures. Just as importantly, they’re able to demonstrate the upside of integrity—attracting talent, winning business, and proving the ROI of a strong ethics and compliance program.