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The Compliance Handbook

Evolution of Compliance Products with Philip Winterburn


Compliance Evangelist Tom Fox shares the screen with Philip Winterburn, co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Convercent, in yet another engaging conversation here at The Compliance Handbook podcast. Listen in as Philip shares his journey in compliance, the revolution that Convercent software created in the ethics space, and what he’s seen from his perspective over the past decade.
Key takeaways in the episode:
✔️ Glean lessons how Philip’s love for mathematics led him in applying technology to solve business problems and co-founding Convercent nine years ago as a dream to bring something different into the ethics and compliance world.
✔️ Why melding the concepts of behavioral science, ethics into compliance requires having good metrics to identify areas of weakness, where and how to apply the change, track trends, understand human behavior and influence those people, and then use data again to measure the impact of those programs.
✔️ Consider how the speed of social media and the potential reputational damage can get tricky for companies to defend themselves. Philip reminds: you don’t need a great PR firm to protect you, but be good through and through. You have to act with integrity in everything you do.
✔️ Understand how the evolution of the thinking of risk is a business opportunity. Philip explores his observations on the shift from legal to business and from law to behavior in the compliance profession.
✔️ Lean in how Convercent journeyed as a profession of going from the regulatory world to now offering more about business enablement and business outcomes with the tools and capabilities they offer.
✔️ Looking into the future, it can be both an opportunity and challenge for the compliance and ethics profession to use artificial intelligence to accelerate and expand reach within organizations and elevate more significant insights.
✔️ The merging of Convercent into OneTrust portends for Convercent, driving ethics to the center of business and moving forward to a truly enterprise-wide risk management solution.
✔️ Analyzing and synthesizing information into key insights and telling stories, and engaging our business peers will be a critical skill set necessary for ethics and compliance professionals in the future.
✔️ Failing to embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks will be detrimental to the ethics and compliance professionals if we don’t jump into it.
Philip Winterburn is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Convercent, the world’s first Ethics Cloud Platform. As a leading global provider of ethics and compliance software, companies use Convercent to engage with employees, understand organizational risk, and create more robust, sustained business performance opportunities. Convercent has over 600 global customers, including Microsoft, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Capgemini, and Under Armour. Their customers span all industries, regions, and sizes and represent a growing breed of business leaders who care deeply about driving ethics to the center of their organizations.
Email: pw@convercent.com
LinkedIn: Philip Winterburn
Website: www.convercent.com
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About Thomas Fox:
Thomas Fox, the Compliance Evangelist®, is one of the leading writers, thinkers, and commentators on anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. In this latest edition of The Compliance Handbook, he continues to arm seasoned compliance professionals and those new to the realm with the practical, actionable guidance and tools needed to design, create, implement and continually enhance a best practices compliance program.
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The Ethics Movement

Ren McEachern on The Power of Integrated 3rd Party Risk Management: A Law Enforcement Perspective

CONVERGE is in its 4th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit with Ren McEachern, Managing Director at Exiger. We visit about his presentation at Converge19 on The Power of Integrated 3rd Party Risk Management: A Law Enforcement Perspective.In this presentation, McEachern will ask are you getting a comprehensive risk picture on your third parties? Learn how moving your organization from reactive to proactive risk management can give you a real business advantage from this session.For more information on Converge19, click here.

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The Ethics Movement

Dan Chapman on DOJ Guidance Best Practices

CONVERGE is in its 4th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit with Dan Chapman, founder and Principle of Presyse Consulting. We visit about his interactive presentation at Converge19 on DOJ Guidance Best Practices.
In this presentation, Chapman will be joined by Jay Rosen VP at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. and Jonathan Marks, Partner at Baker Tilly. They will discuss the new DOJ guidance contained some subtle but impactful messages for the E&C community. This session will explore these key messages, the impact they are having and how you can best align your program with this guidance. For example, the emphasis on culture is a clear indication of the elevation of E&C, the impact you have on your business and the expectations that regulators now have that go way beyond pure regulatory adherence. You will leave this session better armed to elevate your programs to align with this new guidance and the emerging trends in our industry.
For more information on Converge19, click here.
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The Ethics Movement

Stephen Martin on Considerations for the Board

CONVERGE19 is in its 4th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit Stephen Martin, Partner, StoneTurnabout his presentation, The Board’s Perspective – What Can’t be Measured, Can’t be Managed .
Good questions from the board, whose involvement is critical to compliance success, can indicate that the board is committed and engaged with ethics. In this presentation, Martin will share his perspective as a board member to discuss:
– Techniques to help facilitate an effective and open dialogue between you and the board
– Common questions that board members will ask about your program
– How to compile critical compliance program data to accurately benchmark
For more information on Converge19, click here.

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The Ethics Movement

Michael Rasmussen-SWOT Analysis for the CECO

CONVERGE19 is in its 4th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit with Michael Rasmussen, GRC Research Analyst & Punditabout his presentation, The Board’s Perspective – What Can’t be Measured, Can’t be Managed.
The greatest challenge for Ethics and Compliance is keeping up with change, and then keeping all that change in sync. In this session, Rasmussen provides a SWOT Analysis of the CECO role as a powerful technique for identifying strengths and weaknesses, and for examining the opportunities and threats a CECO faces in managing and maintaining organization integrity. A SWOT analysis can help a CECO develop his or her career in a way that takes the best advantage of one’s talents, abilities, and opportunities.
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Jacki Cheslow on Instilling Trust in a Decentralized Culture

CONVERGE19 is in its 4th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit with Jacki Cheslow, Director, Business Ethics & Compliance, Avis who together with Terry Stringer, Head Ethics and Compliance Center of Excellence, HP will present at Converge19 the session, Instilling Trust in a Decentralized Culture.
Do your employees feel safe speaking up? Do your employees believe that the company is not only listening but that their concerns are being taken seriously? Do they feel that sense of “organizational justice” that is so important to instilling trust and maintaining an ethical culture? Hear from two ethics & compliance experts as they share how they have instilled trust in their ethics & compliance programs by building a compliance leader network, increasing transparency into their program, and driving creativity and innovation into how the ethics & compliance program connects with employees.
For more information on Converge19, click here