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Great Women in Compliance

Wendy Badger-Compliance from Soup to Nuts

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

Mary and Lisa end the second GWIC semester with Wendy Badger. Wendy is Global Compliance Counsel at Tennant Company, where she oversees their global ethics and compliance program. She has worked in-house and in law firms, taking her experiences from one space and applying them to others. She is also an author, regular speaker, friend, and mentor to many – and one of the “OG GWICS” who has made this community grow.

Lisa and Wendy discuss a number of different topics, starting with remote investigations, which is top of mind for many of us these days. They talk about pitfalls, lessons learned, and some practical tips, including one from Wendy about how she makes interviewees more comfortable. They also talk about the impact of remote work on networking over the past few years, focusing on women and how that may change as the world continues to open up.

Wendy also shares some of her favorite advice and how she has made some of that advice her own. She also told Lisa what has now become one of the best stories about public speaking on the podcast!

GWIC is going on vacation for the next few weeks but will be back on July 20. We hope everyone remembers to take some time off – whether off social media, off from work, or just time for yourself.

The Great Women in Compliance Podcast is on the Compliance Podcast Network with a selection of other Compliance-related offerings to listen to. If you enjoy this episode, please rate it on your preferred podcast player to help other like-minded Ethics and Compliance professionals find it. 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).

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Greetings and Felicitations

Ulysses at 100-Lessons for the 21st Century Compliance Professional- Stephen Daedalus

Matt Kelly once challenged me to write a blog post for Bloomsday. Well aware of my great love for Joyce’s magnum opus, I accepted the challenge. This year is the 100th anniversary of the publication of the book. To celebrate this event, James Joyce’s novel at 100 and the compliance profession, I have decided to do a 5-part podcast series on Ulysses. Over this podcast series, I will highlight some of the books and commentary and tie what Joyce, Dublin, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, together with his mentor Stephen Daedalus, can teach the modern compliance professional. I hope you will join me in the short celebration and trip through Dublin 1904 for the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. In Part 3, we take up the story of Stephen Daedalus and how it intersects with the role of ethics in compliance.

Compliance Quote-Lisa Fine, “ I am passionate about compliance because I think compliance provides guidance on how to make ethical decisions and do the right thing. It helps us understand and think about gray areas and help organizations to be better corporate citizens.”

Resources

The Teaching Compliance-James Joyce Ulysses, by James Heffernan

The Moral of Ulysses by Charles Cosby

Ethics and the Modernist Subject in James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves,” and Djuna Barnes’s “Nightwood” by AnnKatrin Jonsson

The Ethical Reader in Ulysses by Stephen Gilbert

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Sunday Book Review

May 1, 2022 the Ethics edition


In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:

  • Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology by Edward Spence
  • The Rise of Business Ethics by Bernard Mees
  • The Rise of Practical Ethics by Peter Lovejoy
  • Business Ethics for Better Behavior
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FCPA Compliance Report

Gordon Graham-A Whistleblower’s Story


In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report I visit with Gordon Graham. Gordon is a successful whistleblower who told his tale in the book The Intrepid Brotherhood. In this book, Graham discusses how corruption threatened to ruin jobs and harm lives. The leadership at the top of the organization used intimidation, distrust, and secrecy to control the Chelan County Public Utility District showing that control and power can corrupt even the most ethical organization’s integrity—unless someone speaks up. Which Gordon Graham did. In this podcast, he tells his story.
Resources
website: www.intrepidbrotherhood.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gordon-graham-57385319a
Facebook Author Page: In Search Of Aristotle | Facebook

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Greetings and Felicitations

Ethics Madness

Welcome to the Greetings and Felicitations, a podcast where I explore topics which might not seem to be directly related to compliance but clearly influence our profession. In this episode, Jason Meyer and Tom Fox continue the annual tradition begun by Jason of Ethics Madness, a show where we look at the intersection of sports and ethics during March Madness. We have used a variety of social media over the years to broadcast Ethics Madness and this year we use the podcast format. Highlights include:

1. Greetings, and welcome to Ethics Madness, a crossover episode of on Eight Mindsets and Greetings and Felicitations.
2. About the ethics madness concept and history.
3. Ethics and sports:
A. Formula 1
B. Russian doping at the Olympics.
4. Ethics and hoops.
A. Women’s March madness, and the ethics story behind why this is the first year we can say that March Madness for the Women’s Tournament. Plus USWNT Soccer and equal pay agreement.
B. Men’s March madness – Michigan, Juwan Howard and the handshake ritual.
5. Sports as an apt metaphor in compliance communications and training.
6. Odds and ends.
7. Takeaways and a Theme Song.
Resources
Jason Meyer on LinkedIn
Leadgood
Eight Mindsets Podcast

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The Ethics and Compliance Library

Intentional Integrity with Rob Chesnut


In this first episode for 2022 of The Ethics and Compliance Library, host Lauren Siegel explores “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution” by Rob Chesnut. The book is about Rob’s professional career and his work in compliance, ethics, and integrity at AirBnB. This book lays out developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company. Siegel gives an overview and analysis of the book, interviews Rob, and then interviews Darryl Cyphers Jr., the Director of Legal Compliance at Klaviyo. Her interview with Cyphers brings the book to life for E&C leaders and challenges us all to think differently. As always, continue the conversation in the Converge community.
Lauren Siegel on LinkedIn
The Convercent by One Trust, Converge Community

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Innovation in Compliance

Role of Ethics in Business Culture with Alison Taylor


 
Tom Fox welcomes Alison Taylor on this episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. Alison is the Executive Director of Ethical Systems, a collaboration between leading academics in behavioral science, systems thinking, and organizational psychology. She joins Tom to talk about ethics and how it relates to ESG, stakeholders, corporate culture, as well as what place Gen Z and Millennials have in this discussion surrounding ethics and compliance in the future.
 

 
Ethics & ESG
The roots of ESG are ethical in themselves. Alison explains to Tom that the basis of ESG is that businesses ought to do good, and do no harm. “ESG really tries to deal with everything that’s beyond compliance…that companies should not just not break the law, but they should do stuff about climate change and human rights and that kind of thing,” she adds. ESG has a say about what businesses should and shouldn’t be doing in society. The problem in recent times is that ESG is more so related to the profit side of business and not what stakeholders care about. When ethics and ESG are treated in relation to the business case, they are treated as metrics and not important corporate social responsibility.
 
Ethics, Stakeholders and Culture
Tom asks Alison to explain whether a conversation about ethics can be had across a broader group of stakeholders. “The idea that a company could perfectly reflect the ethics and values of every one of its stakeholders is totally ridiculous,” she begins. What leaders should think about instead is the impact they have on their stakeholders. “Rather than talking about what we should and shouldn’t do, a conversation could be that companies should manage the negative impacts that they have on their stakeholders and try and enhance the positive ones,” Alison remarks. Another important thing for leaders to think about is if their organizations have a culture where employees don’t feel safe to bring up ethical issues. The best ‘speak-up’ program won’t be worth anything if your users don’t utilize it.
 
A Place for Gen Z and Millennials
Tom asks Alison to elaborate on where she sees the roles of Gen Z and Millennials in driving the discussion about ethics in the future. “Younger generations want a meaningful career, and they care much much more whether a business is ethical or unethical,” Alison states. If companies want to attract young people, they have to perform ethically and be known for doing so. Younger generations are much more tech-savvy, so if a business is operating unethically, they are going to leak that information via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. This can be detrimental to a companies’ public reputation. Shutting down ethical discussions internally is not the way for businesses to go when hiring younger generations. “If you think [that if] you can shut down this conversation, you’re gonna shut down internal conflict – what you’re actually doing is just pushing this outside and making it way worse,” Alison stresses. 
 
Resources
Alison Taylor | LinkedIn | Twitter
Ethical Systems
 

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Corruption, Crime and Compliance

Episode 224 – 2022 Ethics and Compliance Predictions


Ethics and compliance professionals believe in their mission – if they did not, they would not be in the field. E&C professionals believe in the power of positive thinking, ethical conduct, and the overall ability of an organization to operate as an “ethical” company. They work for their mission, and it is a positive mission. The New Year is a great time for E&C professionals to take stock of their compliance programs and plot out a path forward. Luckily for most compliance professionals, there are many opportunities to advance their objectives. E&C is poised for another big jump on the corporate governance ladder, and this is a big year for E&C professionals to push their respective companies to support such efforts. There are three significant trends that will continue to play out this year that create opportunities. These three trends, which I will discuss in greater detail, are:
(1) the continued emphasis on the importance of corporate culture;
(2) the importance of ESG and, in particular, the “G” element;
(3) the current Administration’s aggressive enforcement and regulatory initiatives.
In this episode, Michael Volkov reviews these important ethics and compliance trends.

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12 O’Clock High-a podcast on business leadership

Leadership Lessons from Gladiator


12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. Each year during Oscar season we look at four Best Picture-winning movies and draw leadership lessons from them. It is also a way to watch some great movies and garner some leadership lessons. In this episode, we consider the movie Gladiator.  Highlights include:

  • Movie Storyline
  • Favorites Scenes
  • Life Lessons

•       Marcus Aurelius’ and Stoicism
•       The only constant is change.
•       Life isn’t always fair but that is not what matters.

  • Business Leadership Lessons

•       Lead from the front and walk the walk.
•       Inspire great teamwork. Create an atmosphere for success of others.
•       There is no losing, only winning and learning.
•       Train hard and practice.

  • Maximus’ Relationships 

•       Jubo
•       Proximo
Resources
8 Virtues of Gladiator Leadership
5 Powerful Life Lessons from Gladiator
Six Leadership Lessons from Gladiator
Down to Business: Seven leadership lessons from Maximus

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Sunday Book Review

February 13, 2022 the Best Books for Ethical Leaders, Part II edition


Today’s episode was inspired by the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and its Faculty Fellows who recently put together their annual list of Best Books for Ethical Leaders. In it, they share books published during the 2021 “that bridge the worlds of business and academia and provide practical insights that can help leaders live and work more ethically.” In this second of two episodes of the Sunday Book Review, I conclude my exploration of their list.
·      There is Nothing for you Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill, selected by Jessica McManus Warnell.
·      Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross, selected by Christopher Adkins.
·      Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant, selected by John Sikorski.
·      Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin, selected by Brian Levey.
·      Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis, selected by Brett Beasley.