Your gateway to navigating regulatory expectations and accelerating your program

The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) connects 350+ global companies who seek and share expert-powered compliance and ESG guidance.

Sharing a Commitment toAdvance Ethical Business

A community of companies realizing the tangible value of doing business with integrity, BELA brings together more than 370 member organizations across diverse industries.
BELA COMMUNITY

Explore the BELA Community

BELA is a community of leading enterprises that share best practices and expertise in ethics and compliance. BELA enterprise members have access to exclusive data, benchmarking, and opportunities to showcase their integrity and ESG programs.
RESOURCES

Company Resources

Access a rich, diversified library of ethics, compliance, and ESG resources to support your role, including research and reports, on-demand data, and member-contributed resources.
TOOLS

Benchmarking Tools

Discover actionable opportunities to improve your integrity program by comparing it with leading practices from the World’s Most Ethical Companies.
COMMUNITY

Community Expertise

Fast-track your journey to building a legacy of ethical value with community expertise from peers and leaders.
RESOURCES

Leverage Premium Resources

Discover proven resources and a rich set of data to support you in your specific role as you support your organization’s ethical culture transformation.

BELA Member Highlights

200+ member-contributed program examples, policies, presentations, toolkits and more.
  • Manager E&C toolkits, training materials, reports and presentations for sharing goals and KPIs with leadership.
  • Full versions of policies and codes, E&C program planning documents, employee communication examples, and ambassador program documentation.

Reports & Research

Exclusive Ethisphere research and reports combining community insights, topical expertise, and recommended practices.
  • Expert insights and analysis with survey data from global leaders in the ethical culture, compliance, and ESG space.
  • Topical deep dives on important issues such as crisis management, investigation practices, training effectiveness, culture measurement, and integrating ESG into business strategy.

Program Guidance

Policy examples, best practices guides, templates, checklists and more to support program maturity.
  • Guidance documents outline implementation steps, key considerations, and leading ideas to improve your program.
  • Provides conceptual frameworks for developing or rethinking core pieces of Ethics and Compliance program elements.

Reports & Research

Exclusive Ethisphere research and reports combining community insights, topical expertise, and recommended practices.
  • Expert insights and analysis with survey data from global leaders in the ethical culture, compliance, and ESG space.
  • Topical deep dives on important issues such as crisis management, investigation practices, training effectiveness, culture measurement, and integrating ESG into business strategy.
ENGAGEMENTS

Draw from Community Expertise

Collaborate with other members and find community-based solutions to ethics, compliance, and ESG challenges.

Connect With a Global Community

Our dedicated Engagement Team helps you connect with other BELA members as you seek peer-level guidance to advance your program.

Working Groups

BELA members, subject matter experts, and other ethics & compliance professionals come together to more deeply examine current challenges, research emerging issues, define leading practices, create practical guidance and resources or advance thought leadership through publications.

Engage and Inspire Your Company

Ethisphere’s experts are proud to support BELA members by sharing data and best practices with your teams, executive leadership, and Board. Invite an Ethisphere expert to present across a range of pivotal topics.
BUSINESS ETHICS LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE

The Tools, Data, Resources, Expertise and Community to Drive Your Success

Discover proven resources and a rich set of data to support you in your specific role as you support your organization’s ethical culture transformation.

BELA Core

Start your journey to advancing business ethics with these essential tools:
  • All access to progamatic benchmarking and analysis in The Sphere
  • Discover best practices with access to the Member Hub
  • Expand your network at community roundtables and the Global Ethics Summit
  • Showcase your programs at BELA events and in the Member Hub and magazine
  • Collaborate on key issues at working groups and special initiatives
  • Get support from a dedicated BELA engagement director

BELA Plus

Get all the benefits of BELA Core in addition to:
  • Receive an annual Ethisphere culture assessment
  • Access tools to transform your culture with a subscription to the Ethisphere Culture Accelerator

BELA Pinnacle

Get all the benefits of BELA Core and BELA Plus in addition to:
  • Inspire your leadership team with an Ethisphere expert presentation
  • Participate in BELA global chapters and events as an organization
  • Additional complimentary passes to Global Ethics Summit
  • Preview new Ethisphere services before they’re released
  • Give BELA Associate Membership access to two key customers or partners
  • Simplify key risk assessments with the help of the Risk Assessment tool
  • Effectively execute projects with the help of the Ethisphere Action Plans tool

Meet the Bela Team

Meet the leaders behind the scenes.
Kevin McCormack, J.D., M.B.A
Executive Vice President & Executive Director, BELA
Sarah Neumann, J.D.
Senior Director, Account Management
Jonathan Whitacre
Executive Vice President, Ethisphere Services
Aarti Maharaj, M.A.
Vice President, Global Partnerships & Managing Director, BELA South Asia and Asia Pacific
Greg Hoffman, J.D.
Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts
Amy Volpe
Senior Director, BELA Engagement
Emily Rickaby, J.D.
Director, Shared Expertise and Strategic Projects
Nicholas J. Patts
Director, BELA Engagement
Pamela Jergens
Director, BELA Engagement
Lori Parizek
Director, BELA Engagement
Will Anthony
Director, BELA Engagement
Samantha Johnson
Content Manager for Global Programs & BELA
Julia Boyes
Account Representative, BELA

Discover BELA: Your Key to Following Rules and Boosting Your Program