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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?

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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.

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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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When ethics & compliance officers make a site visit, they only have so much time, and a million things to accomplish. So how can they make the most of their in-person opportunity to spread the word about what the program is doing? Find out as BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I use site visits to communicate E&C messages?

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In this episode, behavioral modification specialist Jacqui Pruet discusses the behavior modification techniques that can boost employee engagement and make your ethics & compliance program more impactful and effective.

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One of the best benefits of being a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) is that if you have any questions at all about ethics and compliance, you can submit them to BELA’s concierge service, and one of our internal experts will provide an answer and direct you to a helpful resource for more information. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What are appropriate consequences for failing to complete compliance training?

To learn more about BELA, please visit www.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.

In this episode, we’ll hear from Ethisphere culture experts Emilie Anderson, Katie Kruger, Doug Allen, and Curtis Leicht on some of the most important considerations around culture assessments, including what culture assessments really measure, how to apply demographic filters to culture data, how long culture assessments ought to take, and the importance of training managers to boost your culture findings.

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One of the best benefits of being a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) is that if you have any questions at all about ethics and compliance, you can submit them to BELA’s concierge service, and one of our internal experts will provide an answer and direct you to a helpful resource for more information. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What are good data sources for measuring program effectiveness? 

To learn more about BELA, please visit www.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.

It has been a busy time for ethics and integrity news in recent months: executives going to jail, companies receiving massive fines and penalties, CEOs being dismissed or stepping down, and class action lawsuits. But perhaps the unlikeliest ethics scandal is the cheating allegation that rocked the 2024 World Conkers Championship. In his editorial from the upcoming Fall issue of Ethisphere Magazine, Editor in Chief Bill Coffin explains how even in a world as small and insular as that of competitive conkers (what *is* conkers, anyway?), conflicts of interest and speak-up culture matter just as much as they do at any Fortune 500 organization. Why? Because no matter what the stakes, ethics is everything.

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