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Ethicast: 10 Ways Boards Should Oversee Ethics 

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Ethicast: 10 Ways Boards Should Oversee Ethics

As businesses face relentless market challenges, technological transformations, leadership misconduct, and geopolitical whiplash, Boards of Directors play a vital role in providing the kind of ethical leadership that will help organizations build value and manage risk. And yet, those same pressures also expose the thin ethical oversight that many Boards provide—mainly because they lack practical ways to promote culture, conduct, and trust as core business values.  

In response, Boards of the Future—a U.S.-based nonprofit advancing ethical leadership and integrity at the highest levels of corporate power—has released How Boards Should Oversee Ethics, a guide that distills ten concrete practices to help boards bring ethics into the center of strategy, risk, and performance conversations.  

In this episode, Boards of the Future Executive Director, Vera Cherepanova speaks to the distinct practices that can help Boards be better drivers of ethical business culture. 

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BELA Asks: Our 100th Episode! Helping Your CEO & Rewarding Speak-Up 

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BELA Asks: Our 100th Episode! Helping Your CEO & Rewarding Speak-Up

It’s our 100th episode of BELA Asks! In this special episode, Erica Salmon Byrne answers two questions: How do I help my new CEO? and How do I reward speak-up? Listen to hear Erica’s advice for leadership communication strategies that lean into their preferences and leverage storytelling, and best practices for recognizing employees who speak up to foster a culture of open communication and psychological safety. As a bonus, special guest Kevin McCormack joins the episode to talk about how to effectively use the BELA concierge service.  

This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which BELA members can submit questions regarding ethics and compliance and our internal experts will provide an answer plus helpful resources with information. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level questions in the BELA Asks series for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, and connect with a BELA Engagement Director at www.ethisphere.com/bela

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Ethicast: How to Train & Engage Non-Desked Employees 

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Ethicast: How to Train & Engage Non-Desked Employees

In this episode, we are joined by Cargill’s Christopher Annand, Senior Director of the Ethics & Compliance Office, as he offers his thoughts on how Cargill innovates around training and engaging its production employees. He touches on the challenges of training in a production setting, engaging a large and diversified production workforce, and advice and encouragement for training non-desked employees.  

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Secure Use of Generative AI For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Reducing Data Exposure & Cybersecurity Risk

Secure Use of Generative AI for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Generative AI can help SMBs move faster, but without clear guardrails it can also expose confidential information, create cybersecurity risk, and introduce third-party oversight gaps. This guide helps risk and ethics leaders understand where those risks show up and what practical steps to take first.

Inside, you’ll get a straightforward framework for safer GenAI use, including:

  • Key risk-based questions to ask internally and across vendors
  • Core cybersecurity checks
  • A sample acceptable use of GenAI policy your team can adapt

Download the guide today to set expectations, reduce avoidable exposure, and build a stronger foundation for responsible AI use.

Ethicast: At Premera Blue Cross, Ethics is a Team Sport 

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Ethicast: At Premera Blue Cross, Ethics is a Team Sport

In this episode, Sven Peterson, Vice President of Compliance, Ethics, & Regulatory Services, and Corporate Compliance & Ethics Officer at Premera Blue Cross, explains how pursuing “ethics as a team sport” has been instrumental in advancing training and communications, developing a highly effective Compliance & Ethics Champion program, and strengthening monitoring and control functions.  

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