Ethicast

Christina Won is no stranger to storytelling. As Leader—Learning Center within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Affairs department of Workday, an on-demand financial management and human capital management software vendor, Christina is known for her ability to weave her natural love for storytelling into her work as a way to drive employee engagement with Workday’s ethics and compliance program—which, by the way, has earned Workday three-time World’s Most Ethical Companies® honors.

Why storytelling matters in E&C

How Workday tells its stories

Beginner's Guide to Code of Conduct Training

Why voice matters in ethics writing

A special cameo at Workday Rising

In this Ethicast exclusive, Karen Evans, Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute and Gregg Sofer, partner with Husch Blackwell take a deep dive into the ongoing trends and specificities of cybersecurity, particularly when it comes to the SEC's expectations. Join Karen and Gregg as they discuss critical compliance issues and risk management around:

What defines a material cybersecurity incident

When the 4-day time limit for public companies to disclose a cyber incident really begins

How cybersecurity's place within an org impacts the Board's ability to assess risk

How much you should really disclose

What is the right balance between government and private industry for addressing cyber risk? 

To experience Husch Blackwell’s wide range of thought leadership, visit huschblackwell.com to learn more about their White Collar, Internal Investigations & Compliance Team as well as their Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Team. And while you’re there, be sure to check out their podcast, The Justice Insiders, the latest episode of which is “Incidents in the Material World: SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules.”

And for a wide array of guides, tips, and white papers that empower small and medium-sized enterprises to be more secure and resilient in the face of cyber risk, please visit the Cyber Readiness Institute at cyberreadinessinstitute.org.

And for even more resources about Information Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at Ethisphere.com.

On November 13, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report by Rebecca Ballhaus detailing a pervasive toxic culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, the federal agency that oversees the stability of the U.S. banking system. The report involved interviews with more than 100 FDIC employees and detailed a gruesome record of misbehavior, including misogyny, sexual harassment, alcohol abuse, managerial neglect, speak-up retaliation, and more. Joining us to offer her expert insight on what lessons ethics and compliance professionals can learn from the situation at the FDIC is Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne.

Upholding cultural expectations for traveling employees

What to do about workplace fiefdoms

The connection to this Spring's bank failures

A potential silver lining for E&C professionals

Tips for surviving a toxic workplace

"Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel: The Toxic Atmosphere at Bank Regulator FDIC"

In this episode, Ethisphere's Editor in Chief Bill Coffin talks about culture and second chances in an editorial entitled Press X to Continue, which is the prompt that video games give their players to enable them to keep playing after their game ends. 

This is a companion piece to "Serious Fun," an in-depth interview with Jen Brewer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at video game giant Activision Blizzard King (ABK), which appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Ethisphere Magazine. The interview showcases the brilliant things Jen and her team are achieving at ABK, which recently concluded a historic merger with Microsoft.

You can read "Serious Fun" here, or you can download the entire Fall 2023 issue for free here.

Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne offers her insight and expertise to understand the implications and lessons to be learned from the historic guilty verdict of "crypto king" Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX, and the latest addition to the financial world's rogue's gallery.

What the speed of this prosecution tells us

How this compares to other historic white collar criminal cases

The connection to Alameda Research means in all of this

When an org chart is just a shell game

SDNY does not kid around when it comes to white collar crime

The shaky ethical foundations of FTX

How crypto can benefit from better regulation

In this special Ethicast series, BELA Asks, we address specific questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I train my Board of Directors?

Where to begin with training a Board of Directors

How to avoid the trap of Board updates masquerading as Board training

Why it pays to develop a strong relationship with the Corporate Secretary when it comes to getting Board access

Trying to engage people on ethics and compliance is tough work—just ask anyone who has ever had to come up with ideas for their next training or communications campaign. But for Tyler Dean Kempf, Creative Director of Second City Works, the secret is to make business integrity something that is genuinely funny. Tyler is an award-winning Second City-trained improviser, writer, director, and learning facilitator and is one of the comedy masterminds behind Real Biz Shorts, the world's largest collection of comedic short videos dedicated to risk areas in ethics and compliance.

How humor boosts messaging and retention

What the co-creation process is like

Do E&C folks have a good sense of humor?

A sneak preview of a new Real Biz Short

To learn more, visit:

https://ethisphere.com/solutions/real-biz-shorts/

https://www.secondcityworks.com/partners/realbizshorts

In this Ethicast Reacts episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne provides some much-needed context around the abrupt departure of BP CEO Bernard Looney on September 13 and how it exemplifies the changing expectations that Boards of Directors have when it comes to CEO behavior.

Board expectations are changing around CEO accountability

Formal and informal systems that can help prevent CEO misbehavior

What the 2023 Ethics Quotient expects from Board governance

In an exclusive South Asia Ethicast interview, Ethicast's Aarti Maharaj speaks with Ruzbeh Irani - President - Group HR, The Mahindra Group and Rajesh Jejurikar, Executive Director and CEO, Auto and Farm Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd on the topic of ethical leadership.

Ruzbeh and Rajesh provided executive keynote remarks at the virtual 2023 South Asia Ethics Summit, which brought together leaders from across the region on Oct 12-13 to share ideas and provide practical guidance around culture, ethics and compliance, new practices in PoSH compliance, data privacy, the evolving ESG landscape, as well as place a spotlight on companies working together to inspire and elevate business integrity across South Asia.

All sessions ON-DEMAND at: https://events.ethisphere.com/e/2023-south-asia-ethics-summit

In this special Ethicast series, BELA Asks, we address specific questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: What does a good multi-year compliance plan look like, and what goes into one?