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Stakeholder Impact Map and Matrix for Compliance Teams

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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

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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.  

 

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

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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

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Ethicast: From Toxic Patterns to Healthy Culture

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Ethicast: From Toxic Patterns to Healthy Culture

In this episode, organizational culture expert Tobias Sturesson describes how his experience in freeing himself from a religious cult and unlearning its toxic behavior patterns has given him unique insights on how to help organizations build strong, ethical cultures that enable people to perform, thrive, and act with integrity when under pressure.  

Hear about:  

  • Tobias’ compelling personal story of how he went from toxic cult to ethical culture 
  • Ensuring that top-down cultural leadership delivers results through every layer of the organization 
  • How to rescue a culture in danger of going off the rails 
  • Recommended first steps for building a strong, ethical culture  

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How to Talk About Ethics When No One Wants To: Communicating Integrity When Every Message is Under Scrutiny

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How to Talk About Ethics When No One Wants To: Communicating Integrity When Every Message is Under Scrutiny

In this webcast, Ethisphere’s Erica Salmon Byrne is joined by PullSpark’s Emma Pitts to help E&C leaders elevate the way they talk about ethics inside the business, with executives, and in the boardroom. Learn how to position ethics and compliance as a performance driver, build messages that cut through fatigue, and translate your program’s value into language that earns trust and alignment.  

Walk away with:  

  • A six-component framework for crafting persuasive E&C communications that resonate across audiences  
  • Verified data and insights to support emotionally intelligent, business-focused messages 
  • Audience-specific examples and a “human moments” library to make integrity relatable, memorable, and actionable

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BELA Asks: What are Best Practices in “Test-Out” Style Training?

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BELA Asks: What are Best Practices in “Test-Out” Style Training?

In this episode of BELA Asks, Chief Strategy Officer & BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne breaks down the growing interest in “test out” and “test up” options for compliance training. She explains what these models look like in practice, how companies are experimenting with them, and what to consider in light of evolving regulatory expectations and AI-enabled shortcuts. Also hear about cadence, risk-based decision making, and where these approaches make the most sense.

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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