The Ethics Movement: Recent Episodes
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YOU are at the center of the movement to move ethics to the center of business, and build a better world in the process—but you're not alone. Join hosts Tom Fox and Philip Winterburn as they unpack the big ideas of ethics and compliance, in the context of today's big news stories.
Why should you attend CONVERGE21? Tom Fox explains what makes this conference different than any other in today's special bonus episode. Plus, he previews his panel on the 2021 regulatory and enforcement landscape. Register for CONVERGE21 here: https://www.convercent.com/converge21
In this bonus episode, Michael Randrup, Senior Compliance Specialist and Attorney at Ørsted, previews his upcoming CONVERGE21 session on the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive. Michael shares some of the hidden complexities that may trip companies up as they attempt to comply with the Directive. Register for CONVERGE21 to attend Michael's full session: https://www.convercent.com/converge21
Viktoria Reding, Compliance Manager at Wella, joins Tom Fox to preview her upcoming CONVERGE21 session on Employee Engagement. Viktoria shares her thoughts on how to make compliance content more entertaining. Sign up for CONVERGE21 here to attend Viktoria's session live: https://www.convercent.com/converge21
In this special CONVERGE21 edition of The Ethics Movement, Tom visits with Mary Inman, head of the International Whistleblower Practice at law firm Constantine Cannon. Thanks to her years of experience defending whistleblowers, Mary explains where whistleblowing programs go wrong—and how they can prevent whistleblowers from going external.
In this special CONVERGE21 edition of The Ethics Movement, Convercent by OneTrust Chief Strategy Officer Philip Winterburn previews his upcoming session on digital ethics, AI, and privacy. Philip touches on the automation of bias, data privacy, and the need for humans to maintain institutional justice.
In today's special CONVERGE21 edition of The Ethics Movement, Chief Compliance Counsel at Tennant Company Wendy Badger previews her upcoming panel on whistleblowing and speak-up culture. Wendy covers the three barriers to speaking up, the importance of listen-up culture, and tangible actions that help foster robust speak-up culture.
Mike Ward has had a winding journey through the compliance world—from his past as a prosecutor, to working as an in-house compliance officer, to his current gig advising businesses as a partner in Vinson & Elkins White Collar Defense and Compliance Group. On today's episode of The Ethics Movement, he shares his insight on everything from where to find compliance inspiration to how to use DOJ guidance—plus, how compliance officers are like winemakers.
As we return to the office setting, ethics and compliance teams have a unique opportunity to reinvent the way we communicate with employees. Ronnie Feldman, founder of Learnings & Entertainments, pitches humor, storytelling, and improv as a new source of inspiration for compliance training.
Does your employee helpline need a brand that's distinct from your company's? The Integrity Team at Reckitt makes a compelling case for it on today's episode. After finding that their traditional Helpline awareness approach was fading into the background, they made a splash with a brand-new visual identity for their helpline. They share the results, plus Reckitt's vision for a healthier world by 2030.
How can compliance teams lead the fight against human trafficking? Tom Fox and Philip Winterburn connect with Gwen Hassan, a compliance leader and legal counsel with over 20 years of experience at multinational corporations. Gwen is passionate about fighting human trafficking in our corporate supply chains, and shares her insight and experience on this episode of The Ethics Movement.
What comes after Compliance 2.0? Philip Winterburn chats with Ronnie Kann, Head of Global Ethics and Compliance at Energizer, about all the changes they've witnessed in compliance over the last decade-plus and their predictions for the next twenty years.
The latest Global Business Ethics Survey from the Ethics and Compliance Initiative shows that employees from around the world are feeling pressure to compromise ethical standards, plus experiencing retaliation at much higher numbers than before. Tom and Philip are joined by Dr. Pat Harned, CEO of ECI, to break down the survey results and examine what's causing the trends.
What does it mean to be an ethical leader and a leader in ethics? Tom chats with Cheryl Wahl, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at the MetroHealth System and winner of Convercent's Leadership Award, about tone from the top, bringing your whole self to work, and leading a diverse workforce through unprecedented times.
During this special podcast series, Tom Fox visits with Convercent team members on why they are so passionate about driving ethics to the heart of business. In this episode, Tom chats with Asha Palmer, Convercent's Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, about her passion for compliance, why she believes compliance is an ideal representation of who she is and what she stands for in her career, and how we can pass that passion on to the next generation.
During this special podcast series, Tom Fox visits with Convercent team members on why they are so passionate about driving ethics to the heart of business. In this episode, Tom chats with Autumn Sanelli, Convercent's Senior Director of Professional Services, about her passion for helping companies to evolve their ethics and compliance programs through employee engagement, and continuous monitoring leading to continuous improvement.
During this special podcast series, Tom Fox visits with Convercent team members on why they are so passionate about driving ethics to the heart of business. In this episode, Tom chats with Stephanie Holmes, Director of Solutions at Convercent. Her passion is helping companies to align to do the right thing in business and unlocking the power of data for the compliance professional.
During this special podcast series, Tom Fox visits with Convercent team members on why they are so passionate about driving ethics to the heart of business. In this episode, Tom chats with Jennifer Jaffe, Convercent's Chief Product Officer, about ethical product development and software solutions that help compliance teams solve thorny issues.
During this special podcast series, Tom Fox visits with Convercent team members on why they are so passionate about driving ethics to the heart of business. In this first episode, he speaks with Philip Winterburn, Chief Strategy Officer at Convercent. His passion is bringing the rigor of data analytics to compliance and helping compliance officers to make data-based decisions.
Thousands of your peers are attending CONVERGE20, the one-of-a-kind virtual event for ethics and compliance. Don't be the only one in your network to miss out on these game-changing insights. Click here now to sign up—it's virtual and completely free.
Third party due diligence has always been a convoluted undertaking—but increasingly complex business structures and ever-more stringent regulations have upped the complexity tenfold. Rob Mitchell shares a preview of the interactive roundtable he'll host at CONVERGE20, all about Exiger's comprehensive and holistic understanding of organizational risk, and how you can create the same level of understanding with your third parties. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Rob’s roundtable.
Accountability—what is it? Have you been getting it wrong? More importantly, with the renewed DOJ emphasis on culture, culture assessment, continuous monitoring, and continuous improvement, how can you use accountability to drive the desired behaviors and satisfy the DOJ?
Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Sam Silverstein shares a preview of his CONVERGE20 workshop on accountability for ethics and compliance pros. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Sam's workshop.
Being a more powerful force for good within your organizations starts with taking care of yourself, tapping into your vulnerability for greater empowerment, and deepening your connections with your network, mentors, and advocates. Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Mary Shirley shares a preview of her upcoming CONVERGE20 session on avoiding burnout and maximizing your impact. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Mary’s full session.
Ian Foxley’s dramatic tale of blowing the whistle at Airbus brings life to what could otherwise be—and often is—an abstract conversation about the appropriate response to whistleblowing. Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Tom is joined by Foxley for a preview of his upcoming session. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Ian’s full session.
Rashmi Airan’s story is well-known: successful lawyer and businesswoman who went to prison for bank fraud. She is now determined to create a culture of conversation around ethics, ethical decision making, human behavior, and reputational risk into all aspects of our lives. Rashmi redefines what it means to be successful and the need for integrity and emotional intelligence in a continually evolving global culture.
Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Rashmi shares a preview of her upcoming CONVERGE20 session on why good people do bad things. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Rashmi’s full session.
Leadership pressure and the responsibility to drive bottom-line business results has never been higher, and the complexity of the 21st-Century multi-generation workforce has left leaders throughout the business scrambling to figure out how to profitably recruit, retain, train, communicate with, and motivate employees. Is there a practical solution? Absolutely! Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Tom is joined by Alyson Van Hooser. She shares a preview of her upcoming CONVERGE20 session on engaging employees across generations. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Alyson’s full session.
Moving from a traditional legal program to an innovative compliance program that marries user experience, behavioral science and technology can appear to be an insurmountable challenge if you're on a small, under-resourced team. Tune into this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, in which Tom is joined by Guendeline Donde of the Institute of Business Ethics. She shares a preview of her upcoming CONVERGE20 session on making a big impact with a small budget. Click here to register for CONVERGE20 and attend Guendeline's full session.
In this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, Tom Fox visits with Russ Berland, Chief Integrity and Risk Officer at Aventiv Technologies about his upcoming presentation at Converge20 on The Ethics Movement Part 1: Aligning your Allies.
In this interactive session Berland will share experiences and techniques to truly engage other departments as champions of your program, enabling greater efficiency, trust and communication. In 2020 and beyond, ethics and compliance not only deserve a seat at the table—it demands cross-collaboration from your peers. Sometimes, you have to bring pizza.
CONVERGE, the single most impactful event in ethics and compliance, is returning this year as an all-new virtual experience. Click here to learn more and sign up for CONVERGE20.
In this bonus CONVERGE20 episode, Tom Fox speaks with Lisa Stewart Hughes, Chief Compliance Officer at Endeavor, about her upcoming presentation at Converge20 on Accountability Beyond Diversity and Inclusion.
What is your role in diversity and inclusion? How are you responsible for not only those who work at your organization today but tomorrow as well? What about your local community stakeholders? Find out more as Lisa explores these and other questions on this panel.
CONVERGE, the single most impactful event in ethics and compliance, is returning in 2020 as an all-new virtual experience. For the first time, this year CONVERGE will be a truly global ethics & compliance conference, merging our original European and North American conferences and spanning 14 time zones. Click here to learn more about CONVERGE and sign up.
Is it old-fashioned to think of compliance as simply a revenue-protecting activity? Tom and Philip explore all the ways that compliance can actually contribute to profit, not just protect your company from investigation, fines, and reputation loss. Plus, they'll chat about how you can evangelize your program to company leadership so you can make a compelling case for even more resources and budget.
Philip and Tom are joined by Jane Mitchell, Philip's co-author on a groundbreaking new article about the ethical revolution in business. What is the role of compliance in the "new normal?" Jane, Philip, and Tom explore what's at stake for businesses in the pandemic and post-pandemic landscape—and imagine an exciting future for the compliance profession.
The CONVERGE community launches this week! If you’ve attended our twice-a-year CONVERGE conferences in Denver and Europe, you know they’re special. There’s a community feeling at CONVERGE, and a sense that we’re all on the same journey to push ethics to the center of business—and in the process, build a better world.
With 2020 unfolding in ways that no one could have predicted, that mission—and the feeling of togetherness in that mission—is more important than ever. The cornerstone CONVERGE conference will happen this fall as scheduled (though online)—and now it’s supported by an entire CONVERGE ecosystem, including an online community, resource center, and a full schedule of year-round virtual events. Philip and Tom break down why the community is different than anything else out there for our profession, why they’re so excited to be a part of it, and give a preview of the CONVERGE20 conference coming up in October.
The DOJ published updates to its guidance for corporate compliance programs this month. It turns out, the updates are good news for our profession—they make it easier to argue for better budgets, more headcount, and a more influential spot at the table. All that means you’re empowered to kickstart an ethical transformation within your organization. Philip and Tom break down each section of guidance that’s been updated and how you should react starting today.
Do compliance teams have a role in the Black Lives Matter movement? We believe the answer is yes —but we’re just starting to figure out what that role entails. Join Philip and Tom as they kick off this important conversation for our industry with Asha Palmer, a former AUSA with the DOJ and Convercent’s new Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. She covers accountability in business and how it might translate to law enforcement, how compliance teams can help reinforce the work of Diversity and Inclusion teams, social media policies during social movements, and much more. Listen now.
As the first phase of the pandemic response ends, countries around the world enter a period of phased re-opening. How can compliance teams uncover the risks that went unnoticed during the first phase, and what new risks do they face now? And what the heck is a “culture of override?” Join Tom and Philip on this episode of The Ethics Movement as they talk risk assessments, remote work, and all things risk.
What’s next for ethics and compliance? As an essential function of business, it’s not going anywhere, coronavirus or not. But like anything else, it’ll have to change. What do those changes look like? Join Tom and Philip as they predict what “the new normal” looks like for E&C, and how CECOs, GCs, investigators, and other compliance pros can prepare for it.
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Philip’s Helpline benchmarking blog
Philip’s ECI Impact session
Bill Gates’ Pandemic 1 article
Whistleblowing is having another moment in the spotlight thanks to coronavirus, from medical professionals raising the alarm about substandard protection equipment to the Naval Captain who was relieved of his duties for sending a letter pleading for help against the outbreak of Covid-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Compliance professionals need to prepare their companies to deal with complaints arising from coronavirus, including updating policies to reflect the new reality. Failing to do so could be catastrophic—in the United States, federal regulators have signaled that they will prioritize investigations related to Covid-19, and have encouraged disgruntled employees to come forward.
So how do you prepare for the complaints that are almost certain to come? Philip and Tom break down the concept of organizational justice and the tactical approach to a whistleblower game plan.
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth” ―William Faulkner
As coronavirus forces companies to tighten their belts and think about ethics and compliance in a whole new light, let’s take it back to basics—your company values. You may have no choice but to give moral agency to your employees while this situation unfolds; what does that mean?
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Today’s Rallying Cry:
“Man’s chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.”Historian and Sociologist Lewis Mumford
Trust: what is it, how do you build it, how does it flow downward and upward? What does it say to your workforce when you don’t trust them?
While companies deal with the fallout of coronavirus and COVID-19, these questions have become more pertinent than ever. Join hosts Tom Fox and Philip Winterburn as they dive into trust and how companies can foster it among their workforce.