Customer Voices
We move ethics and compliance programs forward.
For more than 20 years, we’ve helped companies develop, measure, and improve their ethics and compliance programs. Here’s what our customers say — and what changed.
“If you want to really understand where you are — what good looks like beyond what you’re seeing at your own company — how do you do that? I think Ethisphere is the answer to that.”
Ebony Yeboah-Amankwah
VP, Ethics, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management, Signet Jewelers
We help teams move faster, earn trust, and gain influence.
89%
Reached their compliance goals faster
9/10
Rate Ethisphere a high-value, high-trust resource
86%
Make program decisions with more confidence
74%
VP-and-above leaders who won more board support
Compliance teams at these companies work with us
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Strategic Support for Every Compliance Program
Select the stage that matches your program to see what leaders like you achieved.
Well-established
We do a deep dive every year into the Ethics Quotient and we always find something that we can work on to improve the program.
Craig Pedersen
Director, Global Compliance and Ethics Program, PepsiCo
Results from programs at this stage
Grupo Bimbo
2.3 → 4.6
Anti-corruption maturity, five years apart, across 32 countries and 139,000 associates.
Tennessee Valley Authority
Nine months
From benchmarking study to closed gaps against a best-in-class comparison.
Sony
113,000
Employees covered after a two-group culture pilot went global.
AES
A month of work
Saved on reporting alone with On-Demand Reporting from the culture survey.
Avangrid
A new CCO seat
Assessment findings led to a full-time Chief Compliance Officer, separate from the GC.
Eaton
15 years
Of benchmarking data, expert guidance, and peer community behind a best-in-class program.
Mid-market
We were able to quickly identify areas where others were gaining and had evolving programs, and where we were lagging behind.
Alan Sauber
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Premier, Inc.
Results from programs at this stage
Premier Inc.
Consultants, replaced
When the board asked what peers were doing, the team answered with Sphere® data instead of a consulting engagement.
Teachers Mutual Bank
Nine years of proof
Independent verification, year after year, of a program built around social responsibility.
Fast-growth
You can really get a compliance program running very quickly because of the depth of knowledge and the wealth of resources that are available.
Barbara Chiu
Senior Manager, Legal Compliance, Klaviyo
Results from programs at this stage
Klaviyo
Months, not years
A compliance program stood up fast on peer-contributed resources and benchmarks.
TrueBlue
One global standard
Consistency and measurement across a distributed workforce, verified by independent assessment.
Standing up
The assessment was very practical… it forced us to ask ourselves very tough questions.
Silvio Cavallo
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Pillarstone
Results from programs at this stage
Pillarstone
The hard questions
A Program Assessment built to force the conversations a young program tends to avoid.
Klaviyo
Built on peers
A program started from BELA resources rather than a blank page.
Video interviews
In Their Own Words
Hear from five compliance leaders on what they were dealing with, and what changed once they had data behind them.
Ebony Yeboah-Amankwah
Signet Jewelers
VP, Ethics, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management
“If you want to really understand where you are, what good looks like beyond what you’re seeing at your own company or what you already thought you knew, how do you do that? I think Ethisphere is the answer to that. Ethisphere has helped me and our organization be better.”
Barbara Chiu
Klaviyo
Senior Manager, Legal Compliance
“The other companies that are part of BELA, that are part of Ethisphere, that are [receiving World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition], we want to be there too. They are our guiding light, our north star for what we want to continue to grow and develop in the future.”
Stephanie Champagne
Lincoln Financial
Ethics and Compliance Consultant
“Prior to Ethisphere, I relied on regulatory guidance and systems telling me a policy or regulation had changed — I don’t recall getting a lot on ethical culture, speak-up, or organizational justice. Ethisphere is my go-to source for all of that, and for seeing what other organizations are doing.”
Reginald Youngblood
AT&T
AVP Corporate Compliance
“Ethisphere provides the platform to help someone become better in their career. … It’s like therapy, because I’m talking to others and they’re having the same issues I’m having, and that trust factor is there. It builds a bridge.”
Stephanie Livingston-Thornton
Altria Group
Policy Administrator
“Ethisphere helps me be more confident in the suggestions I’m making to improve our program, because it’s not just something coming out of left field. It’s data-based. It’s been tested already somewhere else.”
Customers by program pillar
Strengthening the Pillars of Your Program
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Decision-Making
Ethisphere helps me be more confident in the suggestions I’m making to improve our program, because it’s not just something coming out of left field. It’s data-based. It’s been tested already somewhere else.
Stephanie Livingston-Thornton
Policy Administrator, Altria Group
The assessment is really a great tool to gather hard data to validate that belief and also identify potential areas of opportunity to improve the culture.
Craig Pedersen
Director, Global Compliance and Ethics Program, PepsiCo
BELA provides great insight and benchmarking to help a company understand where they are in their compliance journey against DOJ and other regulatory expectations and against their peer set.
Lisa Robinson-Davis
Director of Compliance, Carter’s Inc.
Program Strategy
[Ethisphere] is a game-changer — it offers us the ability to benchmark against peers and leading practices. The data and insights informed our priorities, needed improvements, and focus.
Alan Sauber
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Premier, Inc.
We wanted to benchmark ourselves against the best. After they came through and did a benchmarking study for best-in-class, Jan and her team worked extremely hard over just a nine-month period to close those gaps.
David Fountain
EVP and General Counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority
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.
Hemma Lomax
VP, Associate General Counsel, Global Integrity, Governance and Compliance, Zendesk
Board & Stakeholder Confidence
Reference the BELA resources, especially if you have to do board presentations. One of the best things about being a part of the BELA community is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Kendall Mills
Head of Ethics and Compliance, Americas, JLL
It’s a strong message to our clients and our third parties, because it is part of our culture. Our compliance and ethics program has helped the reputation of the company to grow.
Mavín Domínguez Arroyo
Global Compliance Manager, Grupo Bimbo
Ethical Culture & Speak-Up
Perhaps the greatest insights came directly from our own employees, as we included an ethical culture survey in the Compliance Leader Verification process. Our advice to others would be to engage your employees and seek their input.
Antonio D’Amico
SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, AECOM
Prior to Ethisphere, I don’t recall getting a lot on ethical culture, speak-up, or organizational justice. Ethisphere is my go-to source for all of that, and for seeing what other organizations are doing.
Stephanie Champagne
Ethics and Compliance Consultant, Lincoln Financial
Ethisphere’s Culture survey was amazing. The On-Demand Reporting tool was a lifesaver, saving me a month of work by delivering reports in five minutes.
Janet Alves
Director of Compliance Programs, AES
Continuous Improvement
Even where you feel you are strong, you will get ideas and feedback that you can apply to make things even better and increase the maturity of your program.
Christopher Anand
Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance Office, Cargill
Ethisphere [is] completely worth it because you’re able to assess the maturity of your program, identify areas of strength and areas of improvement.
Julianna Fox
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, WSP
We learned a lot, and we’re using the learnings we received through the process — and through the data you receive after the process — to improve our program. The data set that Ethisphere provides is very valuable.
Spencer Preis
VP Associate General Counsel & Deputy Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Southwire
See where your program stands, and what it takes to move it forward.
Customer narratives
The Problem. The Data. The Program That Changed.
What they were trying to fix, what the data told them, and what changed afterward.
Anti-corruption maturity · five years apart
01 / 03
Grupo Bimbo
“If you are not measuring your program, you don’t have visibility into the progress and the gaps. In-house, you may think your program is great. If you aren’t measuring it, you don’t know.”
Mavín Domínguez Arroyo, Global Compliance Manager
The problem
A small team centralized in Mexico, a footprint growing from 22 to 32 countries, high-corruption-risk regions, and associates who assumed Compliance was internal audit.
What the data showed
A baseline maturity score of 2.3 out of 5, with an independent expert scoring pass and an improvement roadmap on top of the self-assessment.
What changed
Five years of year-over-year measurement took the program to 4.6 out of 5. More than 20 Compliance Champions now sit across the globe.
02 / 03
Sony
“We had people say they were not aware of our policy against retaliation. And I’m thinking, how could they not be aware of it? It’s posted all over, and we send quarterly emails.”
Kathleen Franklin, Global Ethics and Compliance Strategy Leader
The problem
Culture questions lived inside the general engagement survey, which was never built to answer whether employees would speak up.
What the data showed
A large block of neutral responses signaled low awareness, not indifference. Awareness ran measurably higher where a manager had communicated it.
What changed
Manager training became mandatory, with completion tied to compensation. The pilot went from two business groups to the entire global workforce.
Culture assessment coverage
Compliance leadership structure
03 / 03
Avangrid
“What we wanted was to measure ourselves against what we considered to be the most respected peer group in the field, the World’s Most Ethical Companies®.”
Alistair Y. Raymond, VP and Chief Compliance Officer
The problem
Six years of assessments from consultants and law firms had produced proprietary outputs with limited value for external benchmarking.
What the data showed
Compliance work was already happening outside Compliance. Metrics and root cause analysis were early-stage, and staffing didn’t match the peer set.
What changed
Avangrid appointed a full-time CCO separate from the General Counsel, launched a cross-department root cause initiative, and built a manager’s ethics toolbox.
More customer stories
Eaton
How Eaton maintains a best-in-class program with benchmarking data, expertise, and community
Benchmarking data, expert guidance, and a peer community keep Eaton’s program best-in-class, backed by more than 15 years of collaboration with Ethisphere.
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Elbit Systems of America
How Elbit Systems of America stays ahead of regulatory and cultural expectations
In a highly regulated industry, a strong program is non-negotiable — and now a strategic advantage.
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TrueBlue
How TrueBlue built a more consistent global ethics program
A multi-year push for consistency and measurement across a distributed global workforce, verified by independent assessment.
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The evidence behind the work
Ethics leaders have outperformed for ten straight years.
About this data
Each year we measure total stock return of World’s Most Ethical Companies® honorees vs. the Solactive GBS Global Markets All Cap (TR), Jan 2021 to Dec 2025. Correlation, not causation: honorees are recognized for program strength, not financial results. Cohort screened above $3B market cap, cap-weighted at 8%. Source: Inside the Ethics Premium™, Ethisphere, 2026.
Rolling 12-month windows
65% beat the benchmark
7.1% smaller drawdowns in stress periods
10.1% faster return to prior highs
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