In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this Part 2 of a special two-part episode, Mary Shirley begins a conversation with Cindy Morrison. Cindy is the Director of Compliance at Post Holdings, Inc.
Mary and Cindy re-unite after their first episode in this two-part series to discuss an infliction suffered across both genders – that of Imposter Syndrome. Cindy shares her own thoughts and experiences when suffering self-doubt or a crisis of confidence.
Cindy also addresses the resources that she uses to keep up knowledge for her own professional development, despite many years as a Compliance practitioner and some examples of readings and conferences she has recommended to her boss who is new to Corporate Compliance.
A resource that has had a profound professional and personal impact on Cindy is the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and she shares some of the main takeaways of this book for her. Cindy’s enthusiasm for the book was so contagious that Mary immediately ordered a copy for herself after the two had breakfast together recently and Cindy mentioned how life changing it had been for her.
We round out the episode with a request from Mary to the listeners of the Great Women in Compliance Podcast to show solidarity and support to those working around us in the hope that it will have a positive effect, particularly for those who might be battling with Imposter Syndrome.
Cindy also shares her journey getting to her current position, having started out as a paralegal.
She goes on to discuss how her passion for Compliance goes beyond her 9-5 job as one of the organizers of a community of Compliance professionals in the St Louis area and gives tip on how to make such group get togethers work for listeners interested in establishing their own local networks of Compliance meetings with colleagues from neighboring companies.
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In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Saudi Arabian businessman charged with attempted bribery. (Gulfnews)
- Are you cool? Trying using the term ‘narrative violation’. (NYT)
- Feds change position in Och-Ziff restitution case. (WSJ)
- Ousted Papa John’s founder says quality has dropped without his guiding hand. (Washington Post)
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Petrofac identified as Unaoil client and under SFO investigation. (The Guardian)
- Uber license not renewed in London. (NYT)
- Feds charge former executives of startup Outcome Health with fraud. (WSJ)
- Alstom’s UK sub ordered to pay $21.2MM for corruption in Tunisia. (WSJ)
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Another guilty verdict in FCPA trial. (WSJ)
- Samsung guility of FCPA violations, pays $75MM and gets DPA. (DOJ Press Release)
- Tyler Swift calls out Carlyle Group over Scooter Braun imbroglio. (NYT)
- Corruption protests in Colombia. (Independent)
In today’s edition Sunday Book Review edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill by David Stafford
- Good Economics for Hard Times-by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire by John Eisenberg
- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
SEC Chair Jay Clayton is reduced to having a PR firm create fake investor comments to support a SEC rule change. The Astros cheating scandal gets worse. As Tom worries MLB might take away his replica World Series Championship Trophy and Jay consoles him about when a team cheats and wins, they turn to some other of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.
- Using the same defense as Hoskins, Boustani admits bribery and corruption in Mozambique Tuna Boat case. Will it work out any better for him? Steward Bishop and Frank Runyeon in Law360. (Sub Req’d)
- SEC whistleblower tips go down for the first time. Kristen Broughton in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Kevin LaCroix sees it otherwise, on the D&O Diary.
- Jay Clayton gins up fake written comments to support regulation change. Zachary Mider and Ben Elgin report in Bloomberg.
- Former Keppel Offshore lawyer sentenced to time served. Dick Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog.
- Why punishing the bribe takers is equally important as punishing the bribe payors? Matthew Stephenson explains it all in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog.
- Does an aggressive position in a Wells submission hurt a company in a SEC enforcement action? Lawyers from Simpson Thatcher explore in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
- What is ‘enforcement fatigue’ and how did Alstom overcome it? Dylan Tokar reports in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
- of Treasury bringing more sanctions cases against shipping companies. Kristin Broughton reports in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
- What will risk and compliance look like in 2020? David Banks considers in Navex Global’s Ethics & Compliance Matters blog.
- How does M&A benefit from an independent assessment? Jay continues his series on CCI.
- What are the implications of Gen Z on the front lines of compliance? Gaurov Kapoor explores in CCI.
- Recent FCPA enforcement actions shows the SEC will use FCPA Accounting Provisions to hold a company liable for ineffective AML controls. Clay Porter in the National Law Review.
- Navex’s Loren Johnson joins the podcast to talk about Navex Global’s 2020 Benchmarking Survey.You can participate in Navex Global’s annual survey by clicking here.
Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.
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In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
- Germany passes a raft of AML laws. (com)
- Israelis PM indicted on corruption charges. (NYT)
- FCPA leniency program gets tweaks. (WSJ)
- Wells Fargo in hot water again. (Washington Post)
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Improv(e) Your Culture
Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the Compliance Podcast Network. In this show, we discuss how improvisation can be supportive to ethics and compliance programs by helping internal and external communications and driving a culture of compliance throughout an organization.
Some of the highlights include:
- Improv is not simply comedy. It’s a skill that improvisers use to make comedy on stage. This skill has application to the ethics and compliance professionals, from leadership teams and to all employees.
- You can think of it as Applied Improvisation. Applied Improvisation is “yoga for your communication skills”.
- While we cannot teach you to be funny, Improv techniques can teach you
- How to be better listeners;
- How to increase awareness;
- How to make connections and build rapport and trust;
- How to be more adaptable and agile; and
- How to diffuse emotional situations.
- Think of it as Applied Improvisation. Applied Improvisation is “yoga for your communication skills”
- Improv techniques can help ethics, compliance and legal teams to be less scary and better listeners.
- Improv techniques can be seen as leadership development skills as its reframing conversations and discussions with senior management to help create a system of trust and support.
- Improv techniques can help build a better culture through encouraging respectful disagreement, being more open minded about challenging assumption, assuming positive intent, validating and building bridge to commonality and helping foster active listening.
- The bottom line is the improv techniques can help give employees skills and tools that will help them challenge business decisions respectfully and to encourage them to stop disrespectful behavior when they encounter it.
- Finally, take an improv class! You will love it!
Resources:
Ronnie Feldman (LinkedIn)
Learnings & Entertainments (LinkedIn)
Ronnie Feldman (Twitter)
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