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Great Women in Compliance

All Star Women Monitors, Part 2

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.

Today is the second part of a 2-part series that we have been planning for a while, and the timing turned out to be perfect.  Lisa is speaking with an all-star panel of Audrey Harris, Bethany Hengsbach and Dionne Lomax,  Managing Directors from Affiliated Monitors.  Audrey’s area is  Global Anticorruption, Compliance, Ethics & Non–Financial Risk, Bethany focuses on Global Corporate Compliance, with a focus on healthcare, and Dionne works in Antitrust and Trade Regulation, as well as being a professor at Boston University. The timing for this series turned out perfectly, as the group was able to get into an in-depth discussion about Lisa Monaco’s statements in September about the Monaco Doctrine and some of their key takeaways.

In Part 2, the group discusses the statements about compensation and clawbacks, and the importance of appropriate resources, among other topics. They also provide their individual perspectives on two other topics that many of us discuss.  One is the reporting line for CECOs, and the importance of a direct line to the Board or Audit Committees.  The other is the certification of Corporate Compliance programs by CEOs and CECOs. The entire discussion was extremely insightful, filled with practical ideas and good tips for everyone who is trying to build and/or maintain a program.

Listen to Part 1 here.

The Great Women in Compliance Podcast is on the Compliance Podcast Network with a selection of other Compliance related offerings to listen in to.  If you are enjoying this episode, please rate it on your preferred podcast player to help other likeminded Ethics and Compliance professionals find it.  If you have a moment to leave a review at the same time, Mary and Lisa would be so grateful.  You can also find the GWIC podcast on Corporate Compliance Insights where Lisa and Mary have a landing page with additional information about them and the story of the podcast.  Corporate Compliance Insights is a much-appreciated sponsor and supporter of GWIC, including affiliate organization CCI Press publishing the related book; “Sending the Elevator Back Down, What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020).

If you enjoyed the book, the GWIC team would be very grateful if you would consider rating it on Goodreads and Amazon and leaving a short review.  Don’t forget to send the elevator back down by passing on your copy to someone who you think might enjoy reading it when you’re done, or if you can’t bear parting with your copy, consider it as a holiday or appreciation gift for someone in Compliance who deserves a treat.

You can subscribe to the Great Women in Compliance podcast on any podcast player by searching for it and we welcome new subscribers to our podcast.

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Innovation in Compliance

The Many Marketing Uses of Podcasts with Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen is the Vice President of Business Development at Affiliated Monitors, Inc., a company that helps businesses face certain types of ethics and compliance challenges. Tom Fox and Jay talk about the power of podcasting as a new component of marketing for Affiliated Monitors in this week’s show. 

 

 

Getting The Message Out

Tom asks Jay to elaborate on how he’s been able to help people within his organization become more comfortable with having short and direct messages to send out about Affiliated Monitors. “My message – and our message internally to our folks – is that they are just so well versed and so talented, there’s nothing to be afraid of,” Jay says. He adds that they are removing barriers of entry and letting employees know that no matter what level of staff they’re at, they have a story to tell. “Personalize your experience at AMI, and that enthusiasm will come through to the people who want to watch.”

 

The Beauty of Evergreen

Jay talks about previous podcast series he’s had with Tom and explains that AMI was able to evolve its thinking around podcasts because the previous series was evergreen. The beauty of evergreen podcast content is that you’re able to repurpose it, repackage it, and use it in your target marketing. “It exists on the AMI website, and it’s still valuable content as well as an incredibly cost-effective tool for you because if you want to slice and dice something you did a couple of years ago in a different way, for a different reason, today, it doesn’t cost you anything but your time,” Tom adds. 

 

Podcasts As a Channel Tool

A podcast you make lives somewhere, such as your website or Apple Podcast. Your podcast connects you digitally to people you’ve never met in person and that’s a powerful networking tool. You’re connecting companies and services. 

 

Resources

Jay Rosen | LinkedIn | Twitter 

Affiliated Monitors, Inc

Podcast for Business 

 

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Great Women in Compliance

All Star Women Monitors

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.

Today is the first part of a 2-part series that we have been planning for a while, and the timing turned out to be perfect. Lisa is speaking with an all-star panel of Audrey Harris, Bethany Hengsbach and Dionne Lomax,  Managing Directors from Affiliated Monitors.  Audrey’s area is  Global Anticorruption, Compliance, Ethics & Non–Financial Risk, Bethany focuses on Global Corporate Compliance, with a focus on healthcare, and Dionne works in Antitrust and Trade Regulation, as well as being a professor at Boston University.

 In Part 1, we get to hear more about their backgrounds and the road to their current roles.  They also explain more about work as a monitor, including how they are appointed, what they do as monitors, and the field in general.  They also share their experiences in reviewing programs and what impresses them when they are assessing a program, and, conversely, what concerns them.

They also provide advice for women who want to get into the field, and some of the things they have learned.

 The Great Women in Compliance Podcast is on the Compliance Podcast Network with a selection of other Compliance related offerings to listen in to.  If you are enjoying this episode, please rate it on your preferred podcast player to help other likeminded Ethics and Compliance professionals find it.  If you have a moment to leave a review at the same time, Mary and Lisa would be so grateful.  You can also find the GWIC podcast on Corporate Compliance Insights where Lisa and Mary have a landing page with additional information about them and the story of the podcast.  Corporate Compliance Insights is a much appreciated sponsor and supporter of GWIC, including affiliate organization CCI Press publishing the related book; “Sending the Elevator Back Down, What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020).

If you enjoyed the book, the GWIC team would be very grateful if you would consider rating it on Goodreads and Amazon and leaving a short review.  Don’t forget to send the elevator back down by passing on your copy to someone who you think might enjoy reading it when you’re done, or if you can’t bear parting with your copy, consider it as a holiday or appreciation gift for someone in Compliance who deserves a treat.

You can subscribe to the Great Women in Compliance podcast on any podcast player by searching for it and we welcome new subscribers to our podcast.

Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.

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The Affiliated Monitors Expert Podcast

Post Resolution Monitorships


In this podcast, I am joined in this podcast by Jay Rosen, the Vice President of Business Development and Monitoring Specialist at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. In this episode, we consider the use of monitors in the post-resolution phase.
Some of the highlights from this podcast include:

  1. What is a monitorship in the FCPA Context?
  2. Complying with Consent Decrees
  3. When does post-resolution monitorship have the impact of a pre-settlement monitorship?
  4. There are myriad of other ways a post-resolution monitorship can help a company navigate post-resolution issues with regulators.

For additional reading see Jay Rosen’s article What is a Post-Resolution Monitorship? on Corporate Compliance Insights.
For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.

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The Affiliated Monitors Expert Podcast

On The Affiliated Monitors Expert Podcast-Don Stern on Working with Monitors

This podcast series features Don Stern, Managing Director, Corporate Monitors and Consulting Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. on working with monitors. At the end of this series you will have a much broader appreciation on the benefits of an independent monitor, how monitors work and how the different types of monitorships can benefit a wide variety of businesses, transactions and business relationships.
This series includes:
Fears and Concerns in Working with Monitors
There can be a wide variety of concerns for those considering or being required to work with a monitor, both from the corporate perspective and individual employees. From the corporate perspective, the concerns can include the costs of a monitorship and that impact on the bottom line; opening up books the books to an outsider and interference with business operations. These are acerbated by a fear the monitor does not understand the business of the organization or even how business in done in the real world.

Impact Monitors Can Have for an Organization
Interestingly many of the benefits of a company in working with a monitor come from answering the employees fears and concerns. Many employees are intimidated by attorneys and some even fell guilty about themselves and their work even though they have done nothing wrong. Often employees do not feel like them can trust the company, particularly if the company does not employ the Fair Process Doctrine or institutional justice as a core value of the organization.

How Monitors Do Their Jobs
Stern explained that there are variety of tasks and roles a monitor uses when engaging in an independent monitorship. A monitor should understand type of approaches they will take to make an organization more compliant, starting with understanding the work plan. Many times, the monitor must push the organization along by getting buy-in and building consensus. Finally, there should be an awareness of helping the company being compliant in the future.

Regulators Using Monitors
At its most basic level, an independent monitor is a way for the government to extend its reach. Both in terms of lengthening out the time that you have true government oversight and in terms through many of the techniques we discussed earlier:  focus group meetings, review documents, talking senior and middle management. It is a very cost-effective way for federal, state and even local governments to extend out their reach. This cost-effectiveness is driven home by that fact that the cost is not borne by the governmental entity or the regulators. The cost is borne by the entity involved.

Attorneys Using Monitors
Using an independent monitor in a pro-active manner which demonstrates how serious the company is about compliance. It can also be a way to demonstrate any illegal conduct may simply have been an outlier and does not reflect the values, culture and the way the company generally does business. This can provide quite a positive story to present to prosecutors, particularly under the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy.

For more information on Affiliated Monitors, visit their website at www.affiliatedmonitors.com.

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FCPA Compliance Report

The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys General: Part V-The Road Ahead

In this five-part podcast series, I consider the use of monitors by state Attorneys General. I am joined in this podcast series by Jerry Coyne, the Managing Director of State Monitoring Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. who is the sponsor of this podcast series. In this series we introduce the role of state Attorneys Generals as enforcers of state law and bringers of civil litigation; the reaction to the big-tobacco settlement and the criticism of state Attorney Generals over that process; multi-state settlements in the post-tobacco era; challenges in multi-state litigation and the road ahead. Today, in this concluding Part 5, we consider the road ahead and the use of monitors by state Attorney Generals.
For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.
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FCPA Compliance Report

The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys General: Part IV-The Challenges of Multistate in Today’s Litigation Environment

In this five-part podcast series, I consider the use of monitors by state Attorneys General. I am joined in this podcast series by Jerry Coyne, the Managing Director of State Monitoring Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. who is the sponsor of this podcast series. In this series we introduce the role of state Attorneys Generals as enforcers of state law and bringers of civil litigation; the reaction to the big-tobacco settlement and the criticism of state Attorney Generals over that process; multi-state settlements in the post-tobacco era; challenges in multi-state litigation and the road ahead. Today, in Part 4, we consider the challenges for state Attorney Generals in today’s litigation environment.
I hope you will join us tomorrow for our concluding Part 5, where consider the road ahead for state AGs. For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.
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FCPA Compliance Report

The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys General: Part III-Multistate Litigation in the Post-Tobacco Era

In this five-part podcast series, I consider the use of monitors by state Attorneys General. I am joined in this podcast series by Jerry Coyne, the Managing Director of State Monitoring Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. who is the sponsor of this podcast series. In this series we introduce the role of state Attorneys Generals as enforcers of state law and bringers of civil litigation; the reaction to the big-tobacco settlement and the criticism of state Attorney Generals over that process; multi-state settlements in the post-tobacco era; challenges in multi-state litigation and the road ahead. Today, in Part 3, we consider the role of state Attorney Generals in multistate litigation in the post-tobacco era.
I hope you will join us tomorrow for Part 4, where we discuss the challenges of multistate into today’s litigation environment. For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.

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FCPA Compliance Report

The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys General-Part I: The Role of State Attorneys General as Enforcers

In this five-part podcast series, I consider the use of monitors by state Attorneys General. I am joined in this podcast series by Jerry Coyne, the Managing Director of State Monitoring Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. who is the sponsor of this podcast series. In this series we introduce the role of state Attorneys Generals as enforcers of state law and bringers of civil litigation; the reaction to the big-tobacco settlement and the criticism of state Attorney Generals over that process; multistate settlements in the post-tobacco era; challenges in multistate litigation and the road ahead. Today, in Part 1, we consider the role of state Attorney Generals as enforcers of civil law and in bringing litigation to enforce consumer protect and related statutes.
I hope you will join us tomorrow for Part 2, where we discuss the reaction to the Big Tobacco settlement and the criticisms of state Attorney Generals for the process used. For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.

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FCPA Compliance Report

The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys Genera: Part II-Reaction to the Big Tobacco Settlement and Criticisms of State Attorneys General

In this five-part podcast series, I consider the use of monitors by state Attorneys General. I am joined in this podcast series by Jerry Coyne, the Managing Director of State Monitoring Services at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. who is the sponsor of this podcast series. In this series we introduce the role of state Attorneys Generals as enforcers of state law and bringers of civil litigation; the reaction to the big-tobacco settlement and the criticism of state Attorney Generals over that process; multi-state settlements in the post-tobacco era; challenges in multi-state litigation and the road ahead. Today, in Part 2, we consider the reaction to the Big Tobacco settlement and criticisms directed at the state Attorney Generals.
I hope you will join us tomorrow for Part 3, where we discuss multi-state litigation by Attorney Generals in the post-tobacco era. For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. visit their website here.