Ethicast: Corporate Transparency Best Practices

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Ethicast: Corporate Transparency Best Practices

Ethicast: Corporate Transparency Best Practices

In this episode, Transparency Champion, former SEC lawyer, and RealTransparentDisclosure.com Editor, Broc Romanek, shares some of the best practices in corporate transparency that are highlighted by the annual Transparency Awards, which rank the S&P 250’s quality in disclosure and information sharing across a range of categories, including ESG reports, Form 10-K, proxy statements, investor relations websites, codes of conduct, and more.

Ethicast: How to Optimize Your Culture by Measuring It

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Ethicast: How to Optimize Your Culture by Measuring It

Ethicast: How to Optimize Your Culture by Measuring It

Your company probably thinks it has a great culture, but how do you know for sure? Gathering specific metrics help organizations better understand where their cultural strengths and opportunities lie. Curtis Leicht, Senior Data Analyst at Ethisphere, joins this Ethicast episode to share ways in which organizations can make their business integrity efforts more achievable, repeatable, and reportable through formal assessment and measurement.

BELA Asks: Live! at the 2024 Global Ethics Summit

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BELA Asks: Live! at the 2024 Global Ethics Summit

BELA Asks: Live! at the 2024 Global Ethics Summit

We brought the Ethicast series, BELA Asks, to the Global Ethics Summit. Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, and Editor-in-Chief, Bill Coffin, sit down and answer the questions that attendees asked.

In part one they answer the question, “How do I get up to speed quickly if this is my first time working as part of an ethics and compliance team?”

In part two, they answer two questions:

  • “How can a compliance team that is split between different departments (i.e., human resources and legal) produce great results despite being decentralized?”
  • “What reporting mechanism should I consider when we see hotline numbers going down, but we also have difficulty convincing employees it is safe to raise concerns?”

In part three, they answer another two questions:

  • “What type of metrics are companies using to tie the leadership team’s short-term incentive to ethical conduct, outside of training completion?”
  • “What are some questions to ask when onboarding new suppliers? What about new hires?”

In part four, they answer two more questions:

  • “How do you build strong working relationships between the ethics and compliance function and allied functions?”
  • How do you convince people that the ethics and compliance team is not merely the ‘no’ or ‘police’ function?”

Ethicast: 4 Ways to Level Up Your Compliance Training

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Ethicast: 4 Ways to Level Up Your Compliance Training

Ethicast: 4 Ways to Level Up Your Compliance Training

Great compliance training results are table stakes for creating a best-in-class ethics and compliance program. Harper Wells, Chief Compliance Officer for Learning Pool, joins this Ethicast episode to discuss four ways in which organizations can improve their compliance training outcomes, including:

  • Common training challenges and opportunities
  • Learning approaches to retire once and for all
  • Progressive and effective training techniques to adopt
  • Optimizing results through the use of data analytics

BELA Asks: How Do I Factor Compliance into Performance Evaluations?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Factor Compliance into Performance Evaluations?

BELA Asks: How Do I Factor Compliance into Performance Evaluations?

Last March, the Dept. of Justice issues its updated Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program document, which aims to assist prosecutors in making informed decisions as to whether, and to what extent, a company’s compliance program was effective at the time when it committed some kind of punishable offense. We all know that crime doesn’t pay, but it helps if your company makes sure of it by incorporating compliance best practices into how it rewards its top performers.

To that end, Erica Salmon Byrne, BELA Chair, answers the burning question: How do I factor compliance into performance evaluations?