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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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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.
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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
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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.
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Anna Aster on The Future CECO: The Executive Recruiter’s 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 Anna Aster, Principal at Heidrick & Struggles. We visit about her talk, The Future CECO: The Executive Recruiter’s Perspective.
As the field of ethics & compliance continues to evolve, what does it take to be a CECO in the future? Hear from the world’s top executive recruiting firm on the hiring trends in the compliance field, what recruiters are looking for, and tips on how to get your LinkedIn profile and resume noticed by headhunters. This is a session you cannot afford to miss.
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Kurt Stitcher on Operation Globalization!

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 Kurt Stitcher, Vice President, Global Compliance at DJO Global, about his upcoming talk, Operation Globalization!
How do you take a US ethics & compliance program and globalize it? Hear from an expert in the trenches with practical tips on operationalizing a program, from policies and standards, anticorruption processes, and risk management and taking a US program to a modern global program. Learn about building relationships not only with the C-Suite level but with business leaders literally across the globe.
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Valerie Towery on Cross Functional Collaboration

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 Valerie Tower, VP, Global Compliance and CCO, Visa Global Services Inc. (Visa B2B Connect) about her upcoming talk, Cross-Functional Collaboration.
It may not take a village, but it definitely takes collaboration over a common goal to build a truly robust compliance program. A strong compliance program engages more than just a firm’s compliance officers; this discussion will include practical advice and real examples of how compliance departments— large and small— can work best with their peers in legal, human resources, sourcing, audit, and risk, as well as the internal clients that they serve. In this session, we will consider how the compliance function can remain independent while still working collaboratively with the business and with its peer support functions.
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Scott McCleskey on Mapping Ethical Risk in Your Organization

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 Scott McCleskey, Senior Vice President / Subject Matter Expert at Eukleia North America. We visit about his talk, Mapping Ethical Risk in Your Organization.
The level of ethical risk is not uniform across an organization or over time – it varies by role, by geography, and by incentive structure. In this presentation, Simon and McCleskey will look at how you can systematically identify and classify the risk across your organization. We’ll also consider the use of the resulting ethical risk heat map as a predictive analytic and how it can be used to take a risk-based approach to allocating controls and how it can be used as a key resource for reporting to the C-suite and the Board.
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Nicole Pitts on Effectively Increasing Employee Engagement from Shop Floor to Top Floor

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 Nicole Pitts, founder of the Ethintegrity about her talk at Converge19, on Effectively Increasing Employee Engagement from ’Shop Floor’ to ’Top Floor’ through Play.
Struggling with employee engagement? In this session, you will learn how to effectively increase employee participation and facilitate discussions on complex ethics topics across cultures and educational levels. This will lead to a better understanding of the compliance program as well as identification & mitigation of risks from all levels of the organization. Explore the benefits of using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology to promote fruitful discussions to help the individual and the organization embed integrity into daily activities.
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