Ethicast

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 is a good training completion rate?

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.

Ethical culture builds massive value for your employees, investors, and stakeholders, which is why it pays to performing organizational culture assessments to see where a culture’s true strengths and improvement opportunities might be. But culture assessments are not a once-and done thing, and Curtis Leicht, Senior Culture Analyst at Ethisphere, explains how often you should assess your culture, and why.

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources

Ethisphere Culture team: www.ethisphere.com/solutions

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: How do I measure the effectiveness of my training program?

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.

CBRE is the global leader in commercial real estate services and investments, with more than 130,000 professionals in over 100 countries. This 11-time World’s Most Ethical Companies honoree is deeply invested in upholding a culture rooted in its values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence, better known as RISE. But how do you promulgate these values across such a vast and diversified workforce?

Edith Chamblin, CBRE's Ethics & Compliance Director and Global Ethics & Compliance Ambassador Program Leader, shares her compelling story about how she became a compliance leader and how her experiences have helped to turn CBRE's global compliance ambassador program into an enterprise-wide integrity powerhouse.

R.I.S.E - Cultivating a Culture of Ethics: https://tinyurl.com/y5xkskmy

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources 

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 is a good moonlighting policy? 

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.

TD Bank, the 10th largest bank in the U.S., has pleaded guilty to conspiring to fail to monitor financial transactions, which led to narcotics traffickers laundering some $670 million in illegal earnings through the bank. To quote U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, “by making its services convenient for criminals, TD Bank became one.” For this, TD Bank will pay a combined $3 billion in fines and penalties. It will also retain an independent compliance monitor for three years, remediate and enhance its AML compliance program, operate under a $434 billion asset cap, and face stricter regulation within the U.S. Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne explains how things got this way for TD Bank, and more importantly, what organizations can learn from it.

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources

DOJ Announcement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/td-bank-pleads-guilty-bank-secrecy-act-and-money-laundering-conspiracy-violations-18b

ETHICAST - September 2024 DOJ Update to the ECCP: https://www.youtube.com/live/FhQwy2H5M4U?si=uyR_0EqZ7hvYBW6R

In this special BELA Asks episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers the question that is on everyone's minds as we head into the year-end gift-giving season: When should I revisit my gifts & entertainment policy? The short answer is "now," and Erica breaks down the reasons why.

One of the best benefits of being a Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) member is that you can submit any questions about ethics and compliance to BELA’s concierge service, which will connect you with one of our internal experts who will provide an answer and/or direct you to a helpful resource for more information. To submit a question of your own to BELA Asks, please reach out to your BELA Engagement Director. To learn more about BELA, please visit www.ethisphere.com/bela

In this episode, we're going to showcase just a few of the BELA members who’ve come on the show. They don’t just represent best practices within their own organizations. They represent best practices within the ethics and compliance profession itself by sharing what they know in the interest of helping everyone advance business integrity.

Bo van Zeeland of SABIC shares how to secure ethics and compliance program resources, even when budgets are tight. Marie-Claude Dumas and Julianna Fox of WSP share some key indicators of an E&C program that has truly embedded itself within an organization. Craig Pedersen of PepsiCo talks about how the company incorporates culture assessments into their program. And Katy Creecy of Uber explains how data analytics have made such a powerful impact on Uber’s program.

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To learn more about BELA, visit www.ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

One of the best benefits of being a Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) member is that you can submit any questions about ethics and compliance to BELA’s concierge service, which will connect you with one of our internal experts who will provide an answer and/or direct you to a helpful resource for more information. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I anonymize investigations data to remove bias?

To submit a question of your own to BELA Asks, please reach out to your BELA Engagement Director.

To learn more about BELA, please visit www.ethisphere.com/bela 

On September 19, the 6th annual Transparency Awards were announced, celebrating U.S. companies that exemplify disclosure best practices—including best overall transparency, proxy statement, ESG reporting. Form 10-K, investor relations websites, codes of conduct, and plain language usage. Broc Romanek, Transparency Champion, former SEC lawyer, and Editor of RealTransparentDisclosure.com joins the Ethicast to discuss key takeaways from some of this year's most notable award winners.

Full List of 2024 Transparency Awards: www.TransparencyAwards.com

Disclosure best practices: www.RealTransparentDisclosure.com

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.Ethisphere.com/resources