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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance – Keith Laska – Bitcoin: Investment or Monetary System?

Innovation comes in many forms, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Today, I visited Keith Laska to talk about his work in the realm of bitcoin and as a blockchain educator.

Keith Laska, a professor at Fordham University and founder of learnbitcoin.io, says that Laska’s perspective on bitcoin is that it can serve as both an investment and a monetary system, depending on the individual’s location and use case.

In the United States, he sees bitcoin as a high-growth investment that can outpace inflation, while in countries with high inflation rates like Argentina, Turkey, or Lebanon, he views bitcoin as a more stable and reliable monetary system compared to their local currencies.

This dual perspective is shaped by his extensive experience and dedication to staying at the forefront of the evolving field of bitcoin and blockchain.

Key Highlights:

  • Evolution of Bitcoin from 2009 to ETFs
  • Blackrock’s Successful Spot Bitcoin ETFs Approval
  • Enhancing Compliance with Blockchain Contracts and AI
  • Fluency in Bitcoin: Educating Future Industry Professionals

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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report: Seth Whitelaw on Navigating Life Sciences Compliance

Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest-running podcast in compliance. In this episode, Tom Fox welcomes Seth Whitelaw, who has worked in life sciences compliance for over 30 years.

Seth Whitelaw is a seasoned lawyer and compliance officer with a specialization in drug law, particularly within the life sciences industry. He has a unique perspective on regulatory guidance updates in healthcare compliance, shaped by his experiences in developing compliance programs and teaching law. Whitelaw believes that, despite technological advancements in healthcare compliance, the role of compliance officers remains crucial. He views them as a necessary check and balance within companies, akin to the role of government in society. Whitelaw emphasizes the importance of addressing industry criticisms and regulatory updates to prevent distractions and ensure companies can focus on their primary objectives. He is a strong advocate for compliance officers, recognizing their vital role in helping companies bring safe and effective products to market, thereby adding value to the companies they serve.

Key Highlights:

  • Tailored Compliance Consulting for Mid-Sized Companies
  • Evolutionary Alignment for Effective Compliance Programs
  • Data-Driven Healthcare Compliance Updates and AI Integration
  • Enhancing Life Science Compliance with AI

Resources:

Seth Whitelaw on LinkedIn

Whitelaw Compliance Group

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Compliance Tip of the Day

Compliance Tip of the Day: Should We Stay or Go

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast where we bring you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements.

Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our aim is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay on top of your compliance game.

Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

In this episode, we consider the basic decisions you have to make to stay, go, or do nothing if human rights abuses flare up in your supply chain.

For more information on Ethico and a free White Paper on top compliance issues in 2024, click here.

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12 O’Clock High-a podcast on business leadership

12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership – Onno Koelman on Enhancing Leadership Skills through Human Behavior Understanding

In this episode, I visit Onno Koelman, whose consultancy, Dynamic Leader Development, operates on a three C’s framework—clarity, climate, and competence—aimed at enhancing teams’ leadership skills and performance. We discuss the challenges of managing multigenerational teams with diverse responses to leadership styles, highlighting the need for different skills at various leadership levels.

Onno Koelman, has a diverse professional background that includes design engineering, sales, and leadership roles in environmental startups. Koelman’s perspective on professional development and leadership transition is shaped by his unique experiences and emphasizes dynamic growth and adaptation over simply acquiring a set of skills. He advocates for vertical development, which involves enhancing capabilities, refining worldviews, and reducing reactivity. His approach to leadership training focuses on understanding and interrupting existing behavioral patterns within individuals and organizations, rather than merely imposing new behaviors. Koelman also underscores the importance of clarity, a supportive climate, and the right competence within teams, and acknowledges the complexity of leading multigenerational teams, suggesting that leaders should understand and cater to the diverse motivations and responses of team members from different generations.

Key Highlights:

  • Enhancing Leadership Skills through Human Behavior Understanding
  • Dynamic Leadership Development Through Skill Progression
  • Fostering Success: Essential Ingredients for Teamwork
  • Vertical Development for Effective Leadership Transformation
  • Influential Tone in Leadership for Organizational Success 

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Compliance Tip of the Day

Compliance Tip of the Day: Three Categories of Human Rights Violations

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast where we bring you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements.

Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our aim is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay on top of your compliance game.

Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

In this episode, we look at the types of human rights violations that companies face.

For more information on Ethico and a free White Paper on top compliance issues in 2024, click here.

 

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Compliance Week Conference Podcast

Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts – Bianca Forde on Mobility in Compliance

In this episode of the Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts series, Bianca Forde discusses her panel presentation at Compliance Week 2024, “Insights into Career Paths and Transitions within the Compliance Profession.” Some of the issues she will discuss in this podcast and her presentation are:

  • Key drivers for compliance careers
  • Mobility in compliance and beyond
  • Meeting other compliance professionals and building relationships at Compliance Week 2024

I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2024. This year’s event will be held April 2-4 at The Westin Washington, DC, Downtown. The line-up for this year’s event is first-rate, with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event, offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 19th year, join 500+ compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals who gather to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. Compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs, among many others, to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders, and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 80+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from panels on leadership, fraud detection, confronting regulatory change, abiding by cross-border rules and regulations, and the always-favorite fireside chats.
  • Bring actionable takeaways to your program from various session types, including cyber, AI, Compliance, Board obligations, data-driven compliance, and many others, for you to listen, learn, and share.
  • Compliance Week aims to arm you with information, strategy, and tactics to transform your organization and career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount on the registration price. Enter the discount code TFOX2024 for $200 off.

The Compliance Week 2024 Preview Podcast series is a production of the Compliance Podcast Network. Compliance Week is the sponsor of this series.

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Compliance Week Conference Podcast

Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts – Junna Ro on Careers in Compliance

In this episode of the Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts series, Junna Ro discusses her panel presentation at Compliance Week 2024, “Insights into Career Paths and Transitions within the Compliance Profession.” Some of the issues she will discuss in this podcast and her presentation are:

  • Key drivers for compliance careers
  • Mobility in compliance and beyond
  • Making new connections at Compliance Week 2024

I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2024. This year’s event will be held April 2-4 at The Westin Washington, DC, Downtown. The line-up for this year’s event is first-rate, with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event, offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 19th year, join 500+ compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals who gather to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. Compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs, among many others, to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders, and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 80+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from panels on leadership, fraud detection, confronting regulatory change, abiding by cross-border rules and regulations, and the always-favorite fireside chats.
  • Bring actionable takeaways to your program from various session types, including cyber, AI, Compliance, Board obligations, data-driven compliance, and many others, for you to listen, learn, and share.
  • Compliance Week aims to arm you with information, strategy, and tactics to transform your organization and career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount on the registration price. Enter the discount code TFOX2024 for $200 off.

The Compliance Week 2024 Preview Podcast series is a production of the Compliance Podcast Network. Compliance Week is the sponsor of this series.

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Compliance Tip of the Day

Compliance Tip of the Day: Compliance and Human Rights

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast where we bring you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements.

Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our aim is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay on top of your compliance game.

Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

In this episode, we begin to consider the role of compliance in a corporate human rights strategy.

For more information on Ethico and a free White Paper on top compliance issues in 2024, click here.

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Great Women in Compliance

Great Women in Compliance – Roundtable Discussion on Board of Directors and What They Expect from The Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer with Haydee Olinger and Avril Ussery Sisk

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance! In this episode, Lisa and Ellen have as guests Haydee Olinger and Avril Ussery Sisk to discuss the Board and Compliance.

The Chief Ethics &Compliance Officer should be reporting regularly to the Board, but how do you know what the Board expects, especially if there are layers between you and the Board?  In this #GWIC episode, Lisa Fine and Ellen Hunt talk with Haydee Olinger and Avril Ussery Sisk, both current board members and ethics experts, about what they expect from the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer.

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Listen in for how these Board members want the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer to provide pre-reads, meaningful metrics, and focus on the “high hard risks.” Learn about how to build relationships with the Board and ask for resources, as well as how to gain financial knowledge and business acumen. If you are thinking about getting on a board, Haydee and Avril share their journey and thoughts about how you can get started on your journey.  

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Compliance Week Conference Podcast

Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts – James Griffin on Emerging Risks

In the Compliance Week 2024 Speaker Preview Podcasts series episode, James Griffin discusses his panel presentation at Compliance Week 2024, “Examining and Interpreting Emerging Risk Areas.” Some of the issues he will discuss in this podcast and his presentation are:

  • What is top of mind for compliance leaders, including a review of recent settlements and interpretations of the implications of those settlements?
  • Emerging areas of risk, future trends, and what’s coming down the pike
  • New ideas for his compliance program from Compliance Week 2024

I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2024. This year’s event will be held April 2-4 at The Westin Washington, DC, Downtown. The line-up for this year’s event is first-rate, with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.

Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event, offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 19th year, join 500+ compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals who gather to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. Compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs, among many others, to:

  • Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders, and ethics and compliance visionaries.
  • Hear from 80+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
  • Hear directly from panels on leadership, fraud detection, confronting regulatory change, abiding by cross-border rules and regulations, and the always-favorite fireside chats.
  • Bring actionable takeaways to your program from various session types, including cyber, AI, Compliance, Board obligations, data-driven compliance, and many others, for you to listen, learn, and share.
  • Compliance Week aims to arm you with information, strategy, and tactics to transform your organization and career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.

I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount on the registration price. Enter the discount code TFOX2024 for $200 off.

The Compliance Week 2024 Preview Podcast series is a production of the Compliance Podcast Network. Compliance Week is the sponsor of this series.