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…

With ever more attention paid to the role of boards in overseeing compliance, the question naturally comes up:  Do boards even understand what makes for an effective compliance program?  To help answer that question we spoke with Vera Cherepanova (LinkedIn), Executive Director o…

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…

When Garth Jordan learned about the opportunity to lead the SCCE & HCCA, he was excited about the idea of helping to build trustworthy organizations.  And, the more he spoke with the board and talked to his peers, the more convinced he was that this was the role for him. Unlike …

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…

How regulatory deadlines, enforcement trends, and AI governance are shaping the modern compliance function By Wendy Lim, Industry Development Director & DPO Success Ambassador, Straits Interactive The role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) is evolving from a compliance checkbox to a critical pil…

Being a leader is hard.  Being a compliance leader is harder.  Being a compliance leader in fast-changing times takes it up yet another level, but it’s not impossible. Kim Jablonski, Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb shares that with these challenges i…

, 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…

Things are a bit out of balance when it comes to Business Associates (BAs) in healthcare.  Organizations invest a great deal of time and resources in vetting these third parties to make sure that they will safely handle data from the covered entity.  But, when the relationship e…

, 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…

Cybersecurity is often described as a never-ending chess game, except the opponent moves fast, plays unpredictably, and never sleeps. In this high-stakes environment, the Security Operations Center (SOC) stands as the nerve center of an organization’s …

There’s a lot new going on in healthcare enforcement, and, at the same, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed, reports Greg Demske (LinkedIn), partner at Goodwin Proctor and, formerly, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General at HHS. While the US Department of Justice has changed …

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…