In this episode, we revisit some of the biggest news ethics and compliance news stories of the year, and key insights from Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne on what they mean and how to contextualize them in the larger drive to improve business integrity.

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As we head into 2025, life doesn’t look like it’s going to get any easier for the ethics and compliance space, so be sure to visit ethisphere.com regularly to catch up on the latest news, events, resources, solutions and more as we all do our part to make the world a better place by advancing business integrity.

A big part of the Ethicast is our BELA Asks segment, in which Erica Salmon Byrne, Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers questions about ethics and compliance posed by the BELA community. In this episode, we present a series of questions about third party due diligence, which in our age of increasing supply chain risk is as pertinent as ever. Enjoy.

To learn more about BELA, please visit ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director. And if you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we’ll get to it as soon as we can.

As we bring 2024 to a close, we revisit the highlights of our series on Supply Chain due diligence, featuring Patrick Neyts, CEO of VECRA International; Rob Bailes, Director of Sustainable Supply Chains at Control Risks, and Ethisphere executive vice president and supply chain expert, Craig Moss.

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Learn more about how Ethisphere, Control Risks, and Vectra International can help you manage your Supply Chain risk: www.ethisphere.com/supply-chain

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources

Artificial Intelligence has been one of the hottest ethics and compliance topics of the year. And in this episode The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance's Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I develop a good AI policy?

Learn more about BELA: https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela/

At Best Buy—a 10-time World’s Most Ethical Companies honoree—the Code of Ethics is a marquis piece of content within the organization's larger ethics and compliance strategy. Bill Underwood, Best Buy's Senior Director, Global Compliance & Ethics, plays a key role in the Code's ongoing development and re-development, and offers his insights on how he bets Best Buy's Code where it needs to be.

Best Buy's Code of Ethics: www.bestbuyethics.com

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources

BELA Asks: How Do I Refresh and Roll Out a Code of Conduct?: https://youtu.be/L1MamMc_vgg?si=IFxCApjHUUZOunI6

Speak-up culture is at the heart of every great culture of integrity. Which is why so many organizations put forth such robust efforts to build a strong whistleblower program. But where to begin? And how to establish the foundation on which later efforts will stand? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne has the answers as she tackles the question: How do I create a whistleblower charter?

Learn more about the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance: https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela/

As one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, Verizon Headquartered in New York City, Verizon is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with more than 114 million subscribers. To put that into perspective, if Verizon’s U.S. subscriber base was its own country, it would be the world’s 12th largest by population, between Japan and the Philippines.

As one of the world's top telecommunications providers, with a huge stake in data security and consumer privacy, Verizon inhabits some very complicated and high-stakes compliance territory. This makes risk assessment a crucial part of Verizon’s larger ethics and compliance strategy. David Kass, Chief Compliance Officer at Verizon explains how risk assessment drives a compliance strategy that hasn't just built value and delivered internal results, it has also yielded the company both World’s Most Ethical Companies® honors as well as a 2024-2026 Compliance Leader Verification™ recognition.

We talk about how great cultures of business integrity need a robust "tone at the top." But that involves the Board of Directors, too. So how can ethics & compliance officers make sure their directors are as fully invested as the C-suite? Find out as BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I engage my board to drive tone at the top?

Learn more about the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance: https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela/

Jennifer May, CEO and Head Cheerleader of Broadcat - a compliance design company that helps develop innovative training solutions - discusses the next-gen techniques, technology, communication strategies, and audience engagement approaches that can supercharge an organization's training results. You can't have a great ethics & compliance program without great training and communications, and Jennifer talks about how to get there.

Learn more: https://www.thebroadcat.com

Blog: https://www.thebroadcat.com/blog

Free resources: https://www.thebroadcat.com/freebies

In its never-ending quest for quality, French food services and facilities management company Sodexo has spent the last few years building up its speak-up program. In this episode, Sodexo Chief Ethics Officer Philippe Symons and Head of Group Ethics Program Alexandre Berger explain how this campaign hasn't just increased reporting rates, but it has helped deliver the kinds of systemic improvements to Sodexo’s global culture of integrity. The resulting success story is not only reflected by the company’s 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies honors, but it provides a deeply compelling example for ethics and compliance teams everywhere.

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