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BELA Asks: How Do You Revisit Your Organization’s Core Values?

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BELA Asks: How Do You Revisit Your Organization’s Core Values?

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of BELA, discusses how ethics and compliance leaders can lead the charge on revisiting their organization’s core values – a task that sets the foundation for ethical culture, robust compliance practices, and strong business integrity.

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 Reacts: Nestlé CEO Ousted Over Code Violation

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Ethicast Reacts: Nestlé CEO Ousted Over Code Violation

In this episode of Ethicast Reacts, host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy officer Erica Salmon Byrne discuss the E&C implications of Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe’s abrupt dismissal over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct report.

Hear about:

  • CEOS behaving badly
  • Nestlé’s Speak Up program in action
  • Managing investigation outcomes & expectations
  • No severance package for Freixe
  • Holding superstars accountable
  • Lifers & leadership

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Reporting to the Board: Strengthening the Board’s Oversight of Your E&C Program

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Reporting to the Board: Strengthening the Board’s Oversight of Your E&C Program

In this webcast, Ethisphere experts Leslie Benton, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, and Jodie Fredericksen, VP of Data & Services, Senior Compliance Counsel, are joined by Allison Barlotta, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, to share findings from recent Program Assessment work that revealed widespread gaps in board engagement. They will also outline what great practices look like. From building trust with the oversight committee to knowing what to include in reports, the session explores the hallmarks of strong CECO-Board relationships.

Hear about:

  • Establishing regular and meaningful board reporting cadences
  • Creating effective board presentation decks
  • Preparing for and maximizing meetings with the oversight committee chair
  • Conducting executive sessions to ensure open dialogue
  • Involving team members in board presentations

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Ethicast Reacts: The Failure to Prevent Fraud Act

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Ethicast Reacts: The Failure to Prevent Fraud Act

On September 1, 2025, the failure to prevent fraud offense under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) will go into effect. This means that an organization can be held criminally liable if any employee, agent, subsidiary, or other associated person or entity commits a fraud intending to benefit the organization or its clients, if the organization did not have reasonable fraud prevention procedures in place.

In this episode of Ethicast Reacts, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer at Ethisphere, will guide us through the Failure to Prevent Fraud Act and what companies need to consider as they prepare for the act to go into effect on September 1.

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Ethicast: How to Develop Truly Impactful E&C Training

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Ethicast: How to Develop Truly Impactful E&C Training

Running an effective ethics and compliance training program is something most organizations really struggle with. In this episode, we speak with Christopher Annand, Senior Director – Ethics & Compliance at Cargill. Christopher has led a multi-year effort to modernize Cargill’s online training components to include burst learning modules, and to adopt a unified deployment strategy to improve learning outcomes and operational efficiency.

Learn about:

  • Instructional design and program architecture as the keys to great training
  • How Cargill’s training program boosts other aspects of its E&C program
  • How to integrate your external experience into in-house E&C efforts
  • What it took to build Cargill’s training curriculum and lessons learned

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