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Great Women in Compliance

Great Women in Compliance – Leading with Integrity: Women Shaping the Future of Compliance

In this episode, Lisa and Ellen get the opportunity to speak with Junna Ro and Melanie Sponholz to recap the Women in Compliance Summit and discuss the evolving landscape for women in the field.

Junna Ro, a seasoned legal and compliance executive and the Head of Strategic Legal Initiatives at the University of California, and Melanie Sponholz, Chief Compliance Officer & Director of Responsible Investing—Portfolio Operations at Waud Capital Partners, shared insights from the summit.

Both Junna and Melanie emphasized the collective support and sense of community at the event, discussing their session on mentorship and allyship, as well as effective strategies for building these relationships. Junna’s session with Elizabeth Simon focused on Women on Boards and also provided insight and strategy.

They also discuss the current state of the profession, examining both its challenges and opportunities.

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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.