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BELA Asks: Guidance for Serving on Outside Boards

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BELA Asks: Guidance for Serving on Outside Boards

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.

For many executives, a natural part of their professional progression is to serve on Boards of Directors outside of their primary place of employment, be it at another company in a different industry, or an organization that connects to something in their personal life. In all such cases, however, there’s an ethics and compliance component to how that kind of relationship should be handled.

In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne provides helpful guidance for how serving on an outside board doesn’t have to be a major compliance headache.

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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2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies® Application Process

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2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies® Application Process

The 2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies® application introduces strategic updates to the Ethics Quotient® (EQ) questionnaire, designed to make the process more clear, relevant, and actionable for ethics and compliance teams. Whether you are applying for the first time or returning to strengthen your program, this webcast will give you an in-depth understanding of what’s changed and why. We will walk through how the EQ is evolving and how your organization can prepare to submit a confident, complete application.

You’ll learn:

  • The drivers of this year’s EQ updates
  • What’s changed across key categories
  • How documentation plays a central role in scoring and how to prepare your materials
  • What the updated weighting means for your results and how it reflects regulatory expectations
  • How the application process provides real, strategic value by offering compliance leaders a clear snapshot of program effectiveness compared to top-performing organizations

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Ethicast: Understanding the Dark Pattern of Misconduct

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Ethicast: Understanding the Dark Pattern of Misconduct

In this episode, we speak with Guido Palazzo, professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne and his book, The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals, which identifies nine toxic elements—a so-called “dark pattern”—that lead to corporate scandals. It also offers nine actionable lessons—or a “bright pattern”—for building morally resilient organizations.

Watch to hear about:

  • Identifying the “dark pattern” that unites the worst corporate scandals
  • Addressing the systemic cultural issues that get companies in trouble
  • Handling the psychological impact that scandals have on employees
  • Rejecting the dark for a bright pattern of integrity

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BELA Asks: How Should I Collect Conflicts of Interest Disclosures?

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BELA Asks: How Should I Collect Conflicts of Interest Disclosures?

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.

It’s time for another round of BELA Asks! And this time, it’s about conflicts of interest. You asked: how should compliance collect COI disclosures on an annual basis as well as during job changes? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne has a terrific answer for you.

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 Compliance Training Fails (and What You Can Do About It) with Avangrid’s Andrew Jacobs

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Ethicast: Why Compliance Training Fails (and What You Can Do About It) with Avangrid’s Andrew Jacobs

In today’s episode, we sit down with Andrew Jacobs, Chief Compliance Officer of Avangrid Networks. Andrew recently published a paper entitled, “Why Compliance Training Fails” and in it he outlines the major pitfalls that compliance programs are facing with their training.

In our conversation he:

  • Lays out the groundwork for his paper
  • Shares guidance for practitioners as they work to make their compliance training more effective
  • Gives a look into some of the current research
  • Talks about how to create a “cultural norm” within your organization
  • Shares encouragement for compliance professionals

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