Stakeholder Impact Map and Matrix for Compliance Teams

Compliance Worksheet

Stakeholder Impact Map and Matrix

A practical worksheet to see how every project affects your stakeholders, your culture, and your business.

Ethics and compliance decisions touch many different stakeholders—employees, customers, third parties, leaders, and communities. Ethisphere’s Stakeholder Impact Map and Matrix is a simple, reusable worksheet that helps you quickly see who is affected by a project, where risks and opportunities sit, and what actions will have the biggest impact.

Whether you work in a public company or a privately held organization with concentrated ownership, this tool makes stakeholder impacts visible and concrete. Use it to connect project choices with trust, reputation, and long-term value in conversations with business leaders, owners, or boards.

Use this worksheet to:

  • Map internal and external stakeholders for any project or product change
  • Document positive and negative impacts for each stakeholder group
  • Identify amplifiers that increase positive outcomes
  • Flag mitigators that reduce or manage key risks
  • Prepare for leadership, owner, or board discussions with a clear visual
  • Facilitate cross-functional planning workshops using a common framework

Download the Stakeholder Impact Map and Matrix and use it in your next planning meeting, steering committee, or owner discussion to make ethics, compliance, and culture impacts visible and actionable.

Ethicast: Calibrating Discipline in Investigations

Ethicast

Ethicast: Calibrating Discipline in Investigations

On a long enough timeline, an inevitable outcome of workplace investigations is disciplinary action. Applying the right level of outcome to an investigation is crucial to a fair and effective ethics and compliance program. It’s something the Dept. of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporation Compliance Programs (ECCP) encourages, but doesn’t necessarily require, which places it in the realm of voluntary best practices. But what is the DOJ really looking for? And what really constitutes a best practice?  

In this episode, Ethisphere’s Jodie Fredericksen and Eric Jorgenson discuss how calibrating discipline is an important—and yet often overlooked—aspect of an effective workplace investigation.  

 

2026 E&C Readiness: Giving Metrics Meaning

on-demand webcasts

2026 E&C Readiness: Giving Metrics Meaning

The year ahead will redefine how compliance programs prove value. With the EU AI Act taking effect and the DOJ spotlighting analytics, reporting must show outcomes, not activity. In this webcast, Ethisphere and SAI360 share how forward-thinking organizations are linking compliance data to performance, culture, and risk reduction—and using it to influence decisions at every level. Hear real examples of how metrics translate into management actions, stronger resourcing, and measurable trust.  

Learn about:  

  • The five layers of measurement: activity, quality, outcomes, culture, and risk 
  • Connecting compliance data to business impact 
  • Priorities for analytics-mature programs entering 2026 

We’ve also got a report on 2026 E&C Metrics, check it out here!

BELA Asks: How Can I Bring Consequence Modeling Into E&C?

Ethicast

BELA Asks: How Can I Bring Consequence Modeling Into E&C?

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains what consequence modeling is, how you can use it to advance your E&C program, and why E&C practitioners everywhere should look to their allied functions for ideas.  

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

From Governance to Gains: How E&C Teams Turn AI into Results

on-demand webcasts

From Governance to Gains: How E&C Teams Turn AI into Results

Good governance is the starting line. This session shows how programs convert inventories, approvals, and vendor requirements into working solutions. We walk through practical use cases that can speed core workflows, improve consistency, expand risk visibility, and produce decision-ready reporting. You’ll leave with a simple method to move from pilot to scale without losing assurance.  

Learn from:  

  • Bill Coffin, Editor-in-Chief, Ethisphere Magazine, Ethisphere 
  • Tim Morss, Chief Executive Officer, SpeakUp 
  • Christopher Annand, Senior Director of Ethics & Compliance, Cargill 
  • Samantha McMacken, Senior Director of Ethics & Compliance, Cargill 
  • Luis Hidalgo, Program Manager & Senior Team Lead, E&C, Cargill 

This webcast was part two in a series. You can find the other webcast here. You can also find our report on AI in Ethics & Compliance here