With escalating risks becoming more severe and frequent globally, Ethics and Compliance (E&C) initiatives are intensifying their focus on risk mitigation. LRN’s 2024 Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report, drawing insights from over 1,400 E&C professionals worldwide, underscores this trend. Our research indicates that value-driven programs exhibit superior effectiveness and demonstrate a robust correlation with diminished risks and improved business performance.

Amidst this evolving risk landscape, how are E&C programs adapting? What are the prevailing strategies, and how do they manifest in everyday program operations?

In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Emily Miner discusses key findings from the North American edition of the 2024 Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report with Snap’s Global Head of Integrity and Compliance Legal.

Guest: Nicole Diaz

Nicole Diaz is a Harvard Law School graduate and integrity-first compliance attorney with over a decade of experience in investigations and civil and criminal litigation.  Her passion is building open cultures that maximize positive social impact and minimize ethical blind spots. She currently serves as Snap Inc.’s Global Head of Integrity & Compliance Legal, where she oversees the company’s Code of Conduct, leads risk management in key areas such as anti-bribery, conflicts of interest, and trade law, runs internal investigations, and works cross-functionally to embed ESG strategy into corporate governance.  Before working at Snap, Nicole worked at Skadden Arps and Willenken and clerked for a US District Court.

Nicole has led legal diversity efforts throughout her career, most recently helping to found the Snap Legal Diversity group and the Los Angeles chapter of the Law in Tech Diversity Collaborative Pipeline Program.  She has also served as an Ambassador for the California Minority Council Program (CMCP) (2017-2020 Term), Chair of the CMCP In-House Counsel Committee, and an active alum of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2016 Fellow).

Emily Miner is Vice President of Advisory Services at LRN. She advises executive leadership teams on actively shaping and managing their ethical culture through deep quantitative and qualitative understanding and engagement. She emphasizes co-creative, bottom-up, and data-driven approaches to foster ethical behavior and inform program strategy. Emily has led engagements with organizations across various industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, energy, professional services, and education. She co-leads LRN’s flagship research on E&C program effectiveness and is a thought leader in organizational culture, leadership, and E&C program impact. Before LRN, Emily applied her behavioral science expertise in the environmental sustainability sector. She worked with non-profits and municipalities, facilitated earth science research in academia, and contributed to drafting and advancing international climate policy goals. She holds a Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Anthropology.

Get a copy of the North America edition of LRN’s 2024 Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report.

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