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BELA Asks: How Should I Message on AI Use & Policy?

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BELA Asks: How Should I Message on AI Use & Policy?

In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne, BELA Executive Chair, 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.  

To learn more about BELA, please visit https://bela.ethisphere.com to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

If you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we will get to it as soon as we can.

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AI in Compliance: Moving Beyond Governance to Build Smarter Programs 

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AI in Compliance: Moving Beyond Governance to Build Smarter Programs

In this webcast, we are joined by SpeakUp’s CEO, Tim Morss, for a forward-thinking conversation that will equip compliance leaders with the tools to think strategically about AI adoption—especially as they head into 2026 planning and budget cycles. Learn how to evaluate AI solutions, integrate them into your workflows, and measure the impact on your team’s effectiveness—all while staying grounded in ethics and transparency.  

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Ethicast: Strong Ethics is REALLY Good Business 

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Ethicast: Strong Ethics is REALLY Good Business

Year 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 percentage points, which is no small amount. But what if you actually invested in these companies? How much would you make simply by investing 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 it into the 49 companies from the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies® that received honors 10 or more times, and crunches the numbers. Watch to see how much this hypothetical investment would have made.  

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BELA Asks: How Should Managers Handle Reports of Misconduct?  

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BELA Asks: How Should Managers Handle Reports of Misconduct?

In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

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.  

To learn more about BELA, please visit https://bela.ethisphere.com to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

If you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we will get to it as soon as we can.

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Ethicast: Why the SEC is “Going Back to Basics”  

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Ethicast: Why 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.  

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  • A pivot “back to basics,” away from novel legal theory prosecutions  
  • A new focus on rewarding cooperation and remediation 
  • The SEC’s era of “broken windows” enforcement is over 
  • Will the SEC bring new FCPA enforcements?

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