There are few parts of an investigation that are more stressful than the interview with the investigation’s subject.  Done right it can close all the loops.  Done wrong, everything can unravel. To learn how to handle things best we turn in the second of our two podcasts on inv…

Few people know more about conducting a compliance investigation than Georgina Heasman, Senior Manager, Global Investigations at Booking Holdings and Wendy Evans, Senior Corporate Ethics Investigator, Lockheed Martin.  The two of them are the co-authors of our new book Fundamenta…

Employees may trust an AI chatbot more than they trust you, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, if it leads to more reporting. In this podcast, Debbie Sabatini Hennelly, Founder & President of Resiliti shares that  a recent survey conducted by Case IQ reveals that nearly 7…

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…

Byline: Betsy Ford, Senior Consultant, Countoural Mergers and acquisitions are high-stakes undertakings, and much attention is rightly given to financial, operational, and structured IT system integration. Amid this flurry, one area often flies under the radar: unstructured data. These are the email…

Lewis Eisen (LinkedIn) is the author of the book RULES: Powerful Policy Wording to Maximize Engagement, and he wants to change the way people think about and write  policies. Too often, he observes, policies contain parent-child language, with a scolding tone that turns people of…

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…

Why? Why are you asking that? Do you really need to know it? Is it going to tell you something you need to know? Is it a question that anyone could even answer? All of these are questions to ask yourselves and colleagues when they propose adding an item to your due diligence quest…

Building a corporate culture which values commitment to the company’s core values minimizes risk posed from within the employee ranks. Employee adherence to and support of core values starts during the hiring process.  After all, sifting thro…

Imagine that it’s time to move on from compliance to another role, either by choice or being voluntold.  Does what you learned in compliance help? Absolutely, according to Kortney Nordrum, Vice President and Senior Corporate Counsel at Deluxe.  Amongst other benefits, it taugh…

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 …

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…

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…