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One of the best benefits of membership in the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is that members can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more 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 the Ethicast thematically responds to high-level questions from the BELA community for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

In this episode of BELA Asks, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses the concept of a "test-out" style of training, and if there are good use-cases for organizations to have that option.

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In late September 2025, aftermarket auto parts manufacturer and brand owner First Brands suddenly filed for bankruptcy, which took many in the world of finance (and auto parts) by surprise. But the failure was a long time coming, fueled by a debt-driven acquisition strategy and more importantly, an opaque, asset-based finance system that exists largely outside of regulatory restraint and perhaps even the most basic tenets of good corporate governance. In this episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne provides a helpful look at what happened with First Brands, lawsuits and investigations into allegations of fraud and embezzlement, and what E&C leaders can learn from this as fears of contagion in the world's shadow lending system seem poised to spread to other parts of the global economy.

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One of the highly utilized benefits of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is its concierge service, in which members of the BELA community can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information. Since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level concierge questions for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. And in this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne addresses how organizations can best develop E&C skill matrices. Learn more about BELA, request guest access to the Member Resource Hub, and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director at: www.ethisphere.com/bela

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For most E&C programs, a robust data analytics element is table stakes for running a best-in-class business integrity effort. But as data volumes grow to astounding levels, we must ask ourselves an important question: are we gathering the right kind of data? Case in point: How people feel about a particular issue is one of the most commonly overlooked data sets in employee behavior. And yet, it is an element that many data analytics programs simply don’t take into account. In this episode, Ray Day and Tony Sardella of Stagwell and Allison Worldwide explore how data around employee emotions might be one of the most critically overlooked pieces of the data analytics puzzle.

To learn more from today’s guests, please reach out directly to Ray and Tony at:

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On Oct. 23, the FBI indicted more than 30 people within the National Basketball Association for charges related to illegal gambling; namely insider trading-style schemes around so-called "pop bets," that wager not on a game's outcome but on an individual's performance or a specific moment or event within a game. The indictments have been described by the FBI as a major blow against organized crime, and characterize this as a major crisis for the NBA. For those within the ethics and compliance profession, this is a corruption scandal with clear lessons to teach us around subjects such as incentives, pressure, and more.

With us in this episode is Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, as she provides her insight on how E&C leaders can take the lessons learned from this scenario and inform best practices within their own business integrity efforts.

In this special Halloween-themed episode of BELA Asks, we discuss something which many E&C leaders might find a little unsettling, if not downright scary: being called upon to justify the E&C function to the Board. With us as always is BELA Chair and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne as she provides her signature insight to high-level questions such as these from the BELA Community.

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

If you have a question that you’d like answered on this program, contact the BELA Concierge Service, and we’ll get to work on it for you.

In an increasingly interconnected world where supply chains have become multi-layered supply webs, the task of managing supply chain due diligence has become more important than ever. A key aspect of this is social compliance auditing, the manner in which organizations ensure that their partners and third parties are abiding by human labor law.

In this episode, Craig Moss—executive vice president of measurement at Ethisphere, director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute and the Cyber Readiness Institute, and board member of the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors—discusses the vital role that social compliance auditing plays within the larger effort to manage supply chain due diligence.

Further reading: “Using Social Audits to Refine Supply Chain Due Diligence" at www.dowjones.com

Free report - AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage: www.ethisphere.com

Ethics and compliance programs are often stuck in reactive mode, and the way to break out of that is to build a road map for where you see the function heading over the next year, three years, and five years. BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains how you can build a 1-3-5 road map for your E&C team.

This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.

Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

Organizational justice examines whether employees believe the company holds wrongdoers accountable and communicates disciplinary guidelines effectively. When we talk about speakup culture, the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance program, the power of values-based leadership, and the overall health of a culture of ethics, these things often connect directly back to organizational justice.

In this episode, Malthe Helt, a Culture Analyst on the Ethisphere Data & Services team, provides his insights on how organizational justice needs to be maintained and why it sometimes feels like the most invisible part of an organization's culture.

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FREE Report - AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage: https://ethisphere.com/resources/ai-in-ethics-compliance-risk-to-manage-tool-to-leverage/

The SEC is using AI to detect suspicious trading patterns with unprecedented power and accuracy. So that begs the question: how can you be using AI to prevent insider traiding within your own organization? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains.

This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere.