Ethicast

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I restructure my training program?

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

JBS Foods is a leading global food company that processes, prepares, packages and delivers fresh, further-processed and value-added premium protein products for sale to customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents.

With more than 250,000 team members and operations in 15 countries, JBS is the #1 global beef producer, the #1 global poultry producer, the #2 global pork producer, and the mothership for major- brands such as Pilgrims and Primo. It’s safe to say that if you haven’t yet eaten a JBS product, you probably know someone who has.

Over the last several years, JBS has made substantial efforts not only to deepen and expand its ethics and compliance program, but more importantly, it has done so with an eye towards the future sustainability of the program itself.

Our guest for this episode is JBS's Global Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Michael Koenig. Prior to his current role, Michael served as the Head of Ethics and Compliance for Pilgrim’s, a JBS brand. He previously spent nearly 25 years as an attorney defending companies, individual executives and public officials in criminal, civil and regulatory investigations and trials. He was also a federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

To learn more about Governance and Compliance at JBS—as well as its culture, leadership, and sustainability efforts—please visit jbsfoodsgroup.com and click on the Our Purpose tab.

And for a library of free resources on ethical culture, corporate governance, and compliance program structure and authority, check out the Ethisphere Resource Center at ethisphere.com/resources.

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information. Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What does a great compliance champion program look like?

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

Based in Montreal, Quebec, WSP is one of the world’s largest professional services firms, providing strategic advisory, engineering and design services to clients seeking sustainable solutions in the transportation, infrastructure, environment, building, energy, water, and mining sectors. Earlier this year, Ethisphere granted the Compliance Leader Verification to WSP for a second time, in recognition of its exceptional ethics and compliance program. Marie-Claude Dumas, President and Chief Executive Officer of WSP in Canada, and Julianna Fox, WSP’s Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, explain how WSP used cross-functional collaboration, innovative speak-up culture, and a global network of champions to build the ethics and compliance capabilities that lead WSP from strength to strength.

To learn more about WSP’s ethics and compliance program, visit www.wsp.com and hit the Who We Are tab. From there, click on Corporate Responsibility.

To learn more about the Compliance Leader Verification recognition, please visit ethisphere.com/solutions. And for plenty of free thought leadership on ethical culture, compliance programs, and more, visit our resource center at ethisphere.com/resources.

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information. Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers the question: How do I refresh and roll out a code of conduct?

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

Only about half of all employees who witness misconduct actually speak up about it. As organizations strive to foster a culture that makes it safe for employees to act on their instinct of doing the right thing, Steve Koslow, VP & Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Allianz Life, shares how that company's Hear Me/I'm Listening campaign takes an innovative approach to speak-up culture and operationalizing the power of mutual respect.

To learn more about the great work Steve and his colleagues are doing to advance ethics and compliance at Allianz, please visit Allianz.com and mouse over the About Us tab. There, you can learn about Allianz Culture, Compliance, DEI, and more.

To get a free copy of our eBook, The Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture: The Foundations of Building an Effective Culture of Compliance, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at ethisphere.com/resources.

As longtime members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (or BELA) know, we offer a special concierge service whereby BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

Some of these concierge requests are rather specific to a particular company’s needs, but many of them represent broad challenges facing BELA members. That’s why we are using this show to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community.

Joining us to give those responses is BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne, who answers the question: How do you convince your HR team to conduct a speak-up survey?

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

Turner Construction is a North America-based, international construction services company with a staff of over 11,000 employees and some 1,500 projects around the world annually, including schools and hospitals, stadiums and museums, airports, data centers, offices, and more. What sets Turner apart, says Head of Compliance Ken Winfield, is its reputation for integrity, working safely, and robust culture of ethics and compliance, as exemplified by the motto of Henry Turner, who founded the company in 1902 and said: “A promise made is a promise delivered.” Ken shares some of the secrets of Turner's E&C success, including:

On December 5, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland filed federal corruption charges against Trafigura and its former Chief Operating Officer Mike Wainwright, alleging that millions of dollars worth of bribes were paid by Trafigura to Angolan officials to secure $144 million in ship chartering and bunkering activities for Trafigura. Wainwight is being indicted for personally helping to funnel the payments; Trafigura is being indicted for allowing it to happen. It is the first time that Switzerland has filed such charges against a company, and against such a senior commodities trading executive. Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne, weighs in on how these charges reflect modern business integrity expectations, even in industries that are historically unused to them.

Alex van der Wolk, partner and co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Global Privacy & Data Security practice, lends his insights on what ethics and compliance professionals should look out for in 2024 regarding the EU's various legal and regulatory developments around data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI.

To learn more about what 2024 holds in the area of cybersecurity, data privacy, AI and more, please visit the Morrison Foerster Privacy + Data Security page at mofo.com.

And for a library of additional thought leadership on information governance, privacy, and cybersecurity, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at ethisphere.com/resources.