The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics and compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, program benchmarking, roundtable events, and a resource library with hundreds of policy guidance documents, member-contributed program examples, and more. One of the most popular aspects of BELA membership is our concierge service, in which members can submit any question at all regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer and helpful resources with further information. And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, which is why we’re using this program to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses how to plan a fraud communications plan for your employees: The "Why" behind a communications plan like this, and the need for distinct message, messenger, and modality 

In this episode, Ethicast host Bill Coffin shares the story of his ancestor's 1794 indictment for counterfeiting in a tale that will resonate with today's ethics & compliance community as we face a time of uncertainty and turbulence.

This editorial is from the upcoming Winter 2025 issue of Ethisphere Magazine, which will feature a special focus on Ethical Culture with terrific content from Ethisphere, Ethena, Major, Lindsay, & Africa, DesignIt, and more. The Winter issue goes live at the start of February, and you can get your digital copy for free at www.ethisphere.com.

The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, program benchmarking, roundtable events, and a resource library with hundreds of policy guidance documents, member-contributed program examples, and more.

One of the most popular aspects of BELA membership is our concierge service, in which members can submit any question at all regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer and helpful resources with further information.

And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, which is why we’re using this program to thematically respond to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne asks a question about substantiating retaliation claims, and a related question on whether people can use hotlines themselves as a form of retaliation. (Spoiler: They can.)

Labcorp is a global life sciences and healthcare company. Its industry-leading diagnostic and drug development laboratory services help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and patients make clear and confident medical and drug development decisions. In this episode, Labcorp Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Tracy Strong discusses the considerable compliance challenges that come with the company’s active mergers & acquisition strategy, and how her team partners with Labcorp's M&A team to help facilitate transactions. As a testament to Labcorp's commitment to running a best-in-class E&C program, the company earned Ethisphere's Compliance Leader Verification recognition from August 2024 through December 2025.

Labcorp Corporate Responsibility Report: www.labcorp.com/compliance

Appear on the Ethicast: www.ethisphere.com/ethicast

Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources 

Culture is at the heart of every great organization, and ethical culture is at the heart of every great culture, period. In this episode, Business Ethics Leadership Alliance Chair Erica Salmon Byrne gets into that as she answers the question: Why is Culture the top topic in the BELA Member Hub? Her answer speaks to some of the greatest challenges and opportunities E&C teams are likely to face in 2025.

Visit www.ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the thousands of helpful assets in the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

Through regular culture assessments, organizations can measure their culture and spot where their strengths and opportunities for improvement lie. But knowing where your organization’s culture needs help and knowing how to help it are two very different things. In this episode culture transformation coach, host of the Chazin the Dream podcast and author of The Compassionate Organization, Ethan Chazin discusses how organizations build thriving cultures by leveraging trust, developing powerful vision & mission statements, and applying ethical best practices to build effective workplace cultures.

Learn more about Ethan: www.thechazingroup.com

Get your copy of The Compassionate Organization: https://www.amazon.com/Compassionate-Organization-People-Love-Them/dp/154621707X or https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-compassionate-organization-ethan-chazin-mba/1127555628

Subscribe to Chazin the Dream: https://www.youtube.com/@TheChazinGroupLLC/playlists

FREE Ethisphere Culture Resources: www.ethisphere.com/resources

Interested in appearing on the Ethicast? Contact host Bill Coffin at [email protected] or visit www.ethisphere.com/ethicast

The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance has questions, and we have answers! In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses what goes into establishing that bedrock of organizational justice, a good corrective action framework policy.

Visit www.ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the thousands of helpful assets in the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

The Ethicast covered the breadth and depth of 2024's business integrity landscape, including episodes on federal regulatory guidelines, supply chain due diligence, artificial intelligence, psychological safety, anti-money laundering, organizational culture assessments, trade compliance, speak-up culture, and reinventing corporate compliance programs.

In 2025, we'll be covering these topics and more, but we want to hear from you on the topics that are most commanding your attention. Watch to learn how you can weigh in on what topics you'd like for us to cover and how to appear as a guest on the Ethicast yourself.

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As we bring 2024 to a close, we thank everyone who submitted a question to the BELA Concierge Service, and we look forward to answering more of them in 2025. As a special year-end recap, we invite you to take in this series on senior E&C leadership, as BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne discusses naming a Chief Compliance Officer, good compliance reporting structure, and onboarding senior E&C team members. Enjoy.

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 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.