A vacant governance role does not usually look like a compliance problem. Meetings continue. Papers go out. Filings are made. Someone takes the minutes, someone else follows up the actions, and legal or compliance colleagues cover anything urgent. On the surface, the organization m…

This spring, 50 compliance professionals were selected to participate in the SCCE/FBI Corporate Compliance Professional Outreach Event, a unique two-day experience designed to strengthen the relationship between compliance professionals and federal law enforcement. Hosted at FBI Headquarters in Wash…

Let’s talk about the F-word that makes compliance professionals more uncomfortable than a surprise DOJ inquiry: feedback. You’d rather sit through a four-hour records retention training than tell your deputy compliance officer that their investigation memos read like they were …

By  Adam Turteltaub Listen up people:  It’s all about the people. That’s the key message from Gabor Sulyok, Global Head of Commercial and Healthcare Compliance at BioNTech and experienced senior compliance counsel Luciane Mallmann. At its core, ethics and compliance is a human endeavor. While …

If all you’re worrying about is tone at the top, you’re missing a key portion of the choir.  With most people reporting to middle managers, they play in integral role in ensuring a culture of compliance and ethics truly permeates the organization. Evie Wentink, Senior Complia…

Andrew McBride, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Integrity Bridge, recently wrote an article entitled Generative Artificial Intelligence Use Cases for Ethics & Compliance Programs.  Intrigued by the topic, I sat down with him for this podcast. He shared that many compliance…

In my years in compliance, I’ve concluded that the best attribute for a compliance professional is to be a good listener. Most of the time, people want to tell you their problems – it’s therapeutic. I often end a one on one m…

What do cupcakes, cookies and compliance training have in common?  More than you might think, reports Barbara-Ann Boehler, Senior Director of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Ethics at Fordham University  School of Law.  She successfully used the act of frosting the trea…

By Evie Wentink, Ethical Edge Experts I have seen that training records are treated as a checklist. But the real insight comes from identifying the gaps—who’s missing, and what’s driving that absence? Despite its importance, compliance training completion rates remain a persistent challenge fo…

, 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…

Ahmed Salim wants you to change how you approach change.  An active consultant to the compliance community and Healthcare Compliance & Regulations Adjunct Professor at DePaul University, he is passionate about following a disciplined approach to change management.  Not surprisi…

, Ethics Advisor & Consultant, Ethena New ‘Agent’ mode enables ChatGPT to do complex tasks for users, including their required training ChatGPT’s Agent Mode, a new capability that can perform complex, multi-step tasks autonomously, brings with it a surprising risk: the tool …

After months of anticipation, the widely discussed Artificial intelligence (AI) Action plan was announced recently by the Administration marking a new chapter in the evolving story of AI regulation in the United States. While there is much to discuss, h…

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…