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BELA Asks: How Do I Build a New Skills and Capabilities Matrix for the E&C Department?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Build a New Skills and Capabilities Matrix for the E&C Department?

In this BELA Asks episode, Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer & BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne breaks down how ethics and compliance leaders can build a forward-thinking skills and capabilities matrix for their teams. She explains how to align team competencies with organizational strategy, identify gaps, leverage key stakeholders, and use benchmarking data to make the case for new capabilities.  

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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Holding the Line: Making the Case for Compliance When Budgets Tighten

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Holding the Line: Making the Case for Compliance When Budgets Tighten

When regulatory demands multiply but resources shrink, compliance leaders face a tough choice: do more with less or fight for what’s right. In this webcast, Ethisphere’s Erica Salmon Byrne and Mitratech’s Laura Jacobus unpack how high-performing programs maintain influence, protect integrity, and stay visible when cost-cutting is in the air. Watch for straight talk about what really resonates with the C-Suite, how to quantify your culture’s value, and why cutting compliance budgets is often the most expensive mistake a company can make.  

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Ethicast: Emotional Data is the Key to Driving Culture

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Ethicast: Emotional Data is the Key to Driving Culture

For most E&C programs, a robust data analytics element is table stakes for running a best-in-class business integrity effort. But as data volumes grow to astounding levels, we must ask ourselves an important question: are we gathering the right kind of data? Case in point: How people feel about a particular issue is one of the most commonly overlooked data sets in employee behavior. And yet, it is an element that many data analytics programs simply don’t take into account.  

In this episode, Ray Day and Tony Sardella of Stagwell and Allison Worldwide explore how data around employee emotions might be one of the most critically overlooked pieces of the data analytics puzzle. Hear about:  

  • E&C programs might be flying at “too high an altitude” when it comes to gathering and analyzing program data 
  • An approach for data analytics that focuses on emotion that provides unique insight to organizational risk 
  • Incorporating employee emotion into strategic planning leads to more ethical leadership 
  • Building out the capability to gather and analyze emotional data 

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The Truth About Compliance Culture: Insights from a Global Employee Survey

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The Truth About Compliance Culture: Insights from a Global Employee Survey

Is your compliance culture as strong as you think? In this webcast, experts reveal findings from a global survey that captures how employees truly perceive ethics, reporting, AI, and accountability inside their organizations. Take a data-driven look at what’s working when building a culture of integrity and learn how E&C leaders are turning employee feedback into meaningful action, strengthening trust, and shaping programs that resonate across the organization.

Featured Speakers:

  • Parth Chanda, EVP, Risk & Compliance Transformation, Case IQ
  • Jenelle Beavers, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
  • Andrew McBride, Founder & CEO, Integrity Bridge

Want to learn more? Click here to download the report.

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Ethicast Reacts: NBA Insider Trading Scandal 

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Ethicast Reacts: NBA Insider Trading Scandal

On Oct. 23, 2025, the FBI indicted more than 30 people within the National Basketball Association for charges related to illegal gambling; namely insider trading-style schemes around so-called “pop bets” that wager not on a game’s outcomes, but on an individual’s performance or a specific moment or event within a game. The indictments have been described by the FBI as a major blow against organized crime and characterize this as a major crisis for the NBA.  

For those within the ethics and compliance profession, this is a corruption scandal with clear lessons to teach us around subjects such as incentives, pressure, and more. Join us to hear insights from Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, on how E&C leaders can take the lessons learned from this scenario and inform best practices within their own business integrity efforts.  

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