, Director, Learning Programs & Advisory Services, SAI360 I was never a “school spirit” sort of person. During high school, I wore my cynicism about like a badge: Hello, My Name is I Don’t Care. But that cynicism cracked one afternoon in my senior year. Sitting in the blea…

, Chief Engagement & Strategy Officer, SCCE & HCCA This is a blog post about compliance, dirt and rugs.  It’s not, though, about sweeping dirty compliance problems under the rug. It’s about rug cleaning videos and what they can teach us.  If you haven’t discovered them ye…

, Director, Learning Programs & Advisory Services, SAI360 This year marks two decades for me in the Ethics & Compliance training space. I came into this business after twenty years as a television executive with an absolute belief in storytelling as the most powerful way to com…

As with so many other areas, communication, or a lack of it, can be a big problem when it comes to eDiscovery.  Legal doesn’t always adequately communicate what it needs.  The business unit doesn’t share information about all the technologies its teams are using to communica…

Managing whistleblowers is always a hot topic, and you’ll find it on the agenda at the 2025 SCCE Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute.   To provide a preview of what you will see if you join us in Nashville, we sat down with the speakers for the session “Someone Blew The Wh…

I live in Los Angeles and was fortunate enough to get through the fires unscathed.  Around me, though, were others who were not so fortunate.  A cousin and several friends lost everything. After the fires came a cleanup of epic proportions.  For Glenn Sweatt, Vice President at …

Here’s a little nightmare every compliance officer dreads.  You leave your current job for an exciting new one, only to find out that you just walked into a position where the compliance efforts are token at best because the organization’s leadership doesn’t take compliance…

At the midpoint of 2025, the state of artificial intelligence appears to be defined by two major themes: a rapid acceleration of corporations adopting AI tools or integrating AI into existing systems of work; and a shift toward AI governance rather than AI complia…

There is so much hype and drama when it comes to AI, that it’s good to hear the voice of Mujo Vilasevic, Senior Compliance Officer, Raiffeisen Bank  International.  Contrary to most, he makes the case that the problem with AI is overdramatization.  Despite the fears, it’s n…

It’s time to think bigger when it comes to helpline data.  Yes, it’s still important to look at traditional metrics such as the number of calls and the substantiation rate.  But, there is so much more that can be done. Justin Ross, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at…

, Chief Engagement & Strategy Officer, SCCE & HCCA   The death of Hulk Hogan took me back to the 1980s when, like so many others, I really got into professional wrestling.  I watched way too much of it on TV.  I bought tickets to a pay per view remote broadcast piped into a ho…

I recently learned that at the US Department of Justice’s law library, one of the most common requests the librarians receive is for vintage dictionaries.  Why?  Because the lawyers often need to find out what the definition of a word was at the time a law was passed. Meanings…

What you don’t know can hurt you. And what you do know can hurt you.  Such is the dilemma of background screening. Companies want to know who they are hiring, but, explains Al Firato, CEO & Founder of HireSafe, some information is off limits. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Titl…