Ethisphere Roundtable, Virtual

Ethisphere Virtual Roundtable: Telling Your Story in the Absence of Public Market Pressures

1 HOUR(S) | DECEMBER 4, 2025 - | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | MST

Join us on December 4th from 12pm – 1pm MDT for a virtual roundtable for private companies.

Led by Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer, and Executive Chair, BELA and Leslie Benton, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Ethisphere, as well as hearing from leaders in the BELA Community, we will discuss telling your story in effective and meaningful ways for your stakeholders and consumers when you aren’t bound to the public market.

Join us as we hear real-world examples of privately held companies committed to their values and long-term vision, exploring how authentic communication and governance practices can sustain stakeholder trust and demonstrate measurable impact beyond financial performance.

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1 HOUR(S)

DECEMBER, 4, 2025

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

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Welcome Remarks & Keynote: Equal Opportunities Commission on Ethics and Diversity

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New and Emerging Expectations for Compliance Officers

In this session, leaders will explore and share guidance on building and maintaining an effective compliance program, talent acquisition and impact on on compliance, promoting culture, diversity, and equity conversations. This session will also dive into the growing influence of the Chief Compliance Officer in 2023.

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How ESG Can Address the Biggest Global Challenges and Work to Promote Value Creation

This session will cover how companies are moving ESG beyond ethics and compliance to address global challenges such as managing the confluence of geopolitical risks. It will also reflect on how companies are incorporating ESG into an organization's authority structure to hold leaders accountable for achieving ESG goals and drive value across the company.


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Taking a Hands-On Approach to Maximizing Third-Party Integrity

On this panel, speakers will take stock of the current state of third-party relationships (suppliers, distributors, partners, and more) network often burdened with exceptional risks, and new challenges emerging from the pandemic and the current business environment.
  • What is required when a focus on integrity is not party of a third party’s DNA?
  • What is necessary from both a risk-based and value-based engagement perspective?
  • How do you continue to establish more effective due diligence processes
  • What are the greatest obstacles to success?
  • How might enhanced training better support and improve those relationships so that interests and performance objectives are aligned?
Navigating the complexities and diversity of the supply chain and other third parties is an essential part of any E&C program. From lessons learned to new concepts and vision, this panel offer insights on what it takes to address new strains on third-party management so that progress is sustainable.


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Emerging Markets: Creating a People-Centric Culture of Integrity

Data reveals that employees are willing to compromise ethical standards, best practices on hiring people who will support and empower the organization, and explore company initiatives, etc. Driven by the data in EY’s Emerging Markets Report, speakers will address how to manage new and emerging people-created risks such as: Background checks, incentivizing organizational performance, training and monitoring the impact and outcome of training sessions.

  • Attaining business and compliance excellence through a common bond and recognition of values
  • Internal and external factors that create obstacles –current market volatility, the competition for talent, shifting expectations of people in the way they desire to work, transformation of leadership or company goals
  • What are incentives that can influence behavior and recognize those that reflect the best of a company’s persona and value
  • How do you measure successes within the culture and company wins attributed to the culture
  • What is the role of integrity teams to serve as stewards and how to make those partnerships with upper management and other business partners to make it sticky and sincere
  • What are new tactics in this new normal that are serving as the new bonding agent for people with integrity at the core
  • What does EY’s Emerging Markets Report say about perceptions and business suits...is ESG perhaps a universal connector that the culture can lean on?

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PM Networking