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Principled Podcast

Season 9 Episode 5 – How Company Principles and Values Make Compliance Simple?

What you’ll learn on this podcast episode?

What is the most effective way to help employees make ethical and compliant decisions regardless of the different situations they face? Should they consult a lengthy list of rules and try to find one that fits the situation? Or can they be trusted to apply critical principles that embed company values? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Susan Divers talks with Dana McMahon, the vice president and chief compliance officer of Stryker, about how her team works to empower and help its employees live the medical device company’s mission and values. Their secret? Simplicity. 

Guest: Dana McMahon

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Dana McMahon leads global compliance, privacy, and enterprise risk at Stryker. Prior to her current role, Dana served as Chief Legal Counsel and led a global legal and compliance team advising on regulatory and quality, manufacturing and supply, technology and cybersecurity, commercial and government contracting, and privacy.

Dana has 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry. She joined Stryker in 2017 from Novo Nordisk, where she served as Assistant General Counsel. During her 14-year career at Novo Nordisk, Dana held several positions of escalating responsibility within the legal team, overseeing support to the commercial, regulatory, clinical, medical affairs, compliance, and government affairs organizations. Dana has worked extensively on matters related to product development and commercialization, market access and compliance. Previously, Dana worked in private practice at O’Melveny in New York City.

Dana received her law degree from New York University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College.

Host: Susan Divers

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Susan Divers is the director of thought leadership and best practices with LRN Corporation. She brings 30+ years’ accomplishments and experience in the ethics and compliance arena to LRN clients and colleagues. This expertise includes building state-of-the-art compliance programs infused with values, designing user-friendly means of engaging and informing employees, fostering an embedded culture of compliance, and sharing substantial subject matter expertise in anti-corruption, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas of compliance.

Prior to joining LRN, Mrs. Divers served as AECOM’s Assistant General for Global Ethics & Compliance and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Under her leadership, AECOM’s ethics and compliance program garnered six external awards in recognition of its effectiveness and Mrs. Divers’ thought leadership in the ethics field. In 2011, Mrs. Divers received the AECOM CEO Award of Excellence, which recognized her work in advancing the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Before joining AECOM, she worked at SAIC and Lockheed Martin in the international compliance area. Prior to that, she was a partner with the DC office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She also spent four years in London and is qualified as a Solicitor to the High Court of England and Wales, practicing in the international arena with the law firms of Theodore Goddard & Co. and Herbert Smith & Co. She also served as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN working on the first anti-corruption multilateral treaty initiative.

Mrs. Divers is a member of the DC Bar and a graduate of Trinity College, Washington D.C. and of the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Ethisphere Magazine listed her as one the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the ethics & compliance area. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers University Center for Ethical Behavior and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Practical Training from 2005-2008. She resides in Northern Virginia and is a frequent speaker, writer and commentator on ethics and compliance topics.

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FCPA Compliance Report

Susan Divers on 2023 LRN Program Effectiveness Report

Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest running podcast in compliance. In this special episode, I am joined by Susan Divers, Director of Thought Leadership at LRN to discuss LRN’s 2023 Program Effectiveness Report.  In this episode, Susan and I discuss making your ethics and compliance program is as effective as possible. We include a consideration of the gulf between high performing and less effective programs as well as the impact of the pandemic on compliance;  the importance of empowering middle managers and involving them more in ethics and compliance. Susan also explains why companies need to upgrade their systems to make them more effective, particularly in the data component.

Key Takeaways:

[00:04:50] The Pandemic’s Effects on Compliance Programs

[00:09:17] Decreased Engagement of Senior Management in Ethics and Compliance Throughout the Pandemic

[00:13:52] The Importance of Upgrading Data Systems for Optimal Compliance

[00:18:26] Proof the Program has Been Successful in Improving Student Achievement.

Act now and use the link below to obtain a copy of the Report at no cost. It’s the perfect way to learn more about ensuring your ethics and compliance program is as effective as it should be.

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Season 8 – Episode 12 – Part 2: Geopolitics and the Interconnectedness of Compliance Risks

What you’ll learn on this podcast episode

In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Susan Divers continues her conversation from Episode 11 with Tom Fox, the founder of the Compliance Podcast Network, on the changing geopolitical landscape and its impact on E&C. Listen in as the two discuss how anti-corruption is a key component of ESG, the consequences of compliance in cybersecurity, and the growing interconnectedness of risks. You can listen to Episode 11 here. 

To learn more, download a copy of Tom Fox’s white paper Never the Same: Five Key Areas in Which Business Will Never Be the Same After the Russian Invasion. 

Guest: Tom Fox

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Tom Fox is literally the guy who wrote the book on compliance with the international compliance best-seller The Compliance Handbook, 3rd edition, which was released by LexisNexis in May 2022. Tom has authored 23 other books on business leadership, compliance and ethics, and corporate governance, including the international best-sellers Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics and Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act, as well as his award-winning series “Fox on Compliance.”

Tom leads the social media discussion on compliance with his award-winning blog, and is the Voice of Compliance, having founded the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network and hosting or producing multiple award-winning podcasts. He is an executive leader at the C-Suite Network, the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com.

Host: Susan Divers

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Susan Divers is the director of thought leadership and best practices with LRN Corporation. She brings 30+ years’ accomplishments and experience in the ethics and compliance arena to LRN clients and colleagues. This expertise includes building state-of-the-art compliance programs infused with values, designing user-friendly means of engaging and informing employees, fostering an embedded culture of compliance, and sharing substantial subject matter expertise in anti-corruption, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas of compliance.

Prior to joining LRN, Mrs. Divers served as AECOM’s Assistant General for Global Ethics & Compliance and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Under her leadership, AECOM’s ethics and compliance program garnered six external awards in recognition of its effectiveness and Mrs. Divers’ thought leadership in the ethics field. In 2011, Mrs. Divers received the AECOM CEO Award of Excellence, which recognized her work in advancing the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Before joining AECOM, she worked at SAIC and Lockheed Martin in the international compliance area. Prior to that, she was a partner with the DC office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She also spent four years in London and is qualified as a Solicitor to the High Court of England and Wales, practicing in the international arena with the law firms of Theodore Goddard & Co. and Herbert Smith & Co. She also served as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN working on the first anti-corruption multilateral treaty initiative.

Mrs. Divers is a member of the DC Bar and a graduate of Trinity College, Washington D.C. and of the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Ethisphere Magazine listed her as one the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the ethics & compliance area. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers University Center for Ethical Behavior and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Practical Training from 2005-2008. She resides in Northern Virginia and is a frequent speaker, writer and commentator on ethics and compliance topics.

 

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Season 8 – Episode 11 – Part 1: Geopolitics are Impacting Workplace Ethics and Compliance Programs

What you’ll learn on this podcast episode

As the world emerges from a pandemic mindset, we confront new geopolitical realities with Putin’s war in Ukraine and increasingly fraught relations between the US and China. How is this geopolitical landscape changing the compliance landscape? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host Susan Divers is joined by Tom Fox, the founder of the Compliance Podcast Network and aptly accredited “Voice of Compliance.” Listen in as the two discuss the impact of geopolitics on ethics and compliance and what issues should be top-of-mind for E&C leaders in the near future.

To learn more, download a copy of Tom Fox’s white paper Never the Same: Five Key Areas in Which Business Will Never Be the Same After the Russian Invasion.

Guest: Tom Fox

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Tom Fox is literally the guy who wrote the book on compliance with the international compliance best-seller The Compliance Handbook, 3rd edition, which LexisNexis released in May 2022. Tom has authored 23 other books on business leadership, compliance, ethics, and corporate governance, including the international best-sellers Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics and Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act, as well as his award-winning series “Fox on Compliance.”

Tom leads the social media discussion on compliance with his award-winning blog and is the Voice of Compliance, having founded the Compliance Podcast Network and hosting or producing multiple award-winning podcasts. He is an executive leader at the C-Suite Network, the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com.

Host: Susan Divers

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Susan Divers is the director of thought leadership and best practices with LRN Corporation. She brings 30+ years of accomplishments and experience in the ethics and compliance arena to LRN clients and colleagues. This expertise includes building state-of-the-art compliance programs infused with values, designing user-friendly means of engaging and informing employees, fostering an embedded culture of compliance, and sharing substantial subject matter expertise in anti-corruption, export controls, sanctions, and other key areas of compliance.

Prior to joining LRN, Mrs. Divers served as AECOM’s Assistant General for Global Ethics & Compliance and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Under her leadership, AECOM’s ethics and compliance program garnered six external awards in recognition of its effectiveness and Mrs. Divers’ thought leadership in the ethics field. In 2011, Mrs. Divers received the AECOM CEO Award of Excellence, recognizing her work advancing the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Before joining AECOM, she worked at SAIC and Lockheed Martin in the international compliance area. Before that, she partnered with the DC office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She also spent four years in London and is qualified as a Solicitor to the High Court of England and Wales, practicing in the international arena with Theodore Goddard & Co. and Herbert Smith & Co law firms. She also served as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Advisor at the Department of State. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN, working on the first anti-corruption multilateral treaty initiative.

Mrs. Divers is a member of the DC Bar and a graduate of Trinity College, Washington D.C., and of the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Ethisphere Magazine listed her as one of the “Attorneys Who Matter” in the ethics & compliance area. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers University Center for Ethical Behavior and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Practical Training from 2005-2008. She resides in Northern Virginia and is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on ethics and compliance topics.

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The Compliance Life

Susan Divers – Move to Thought Leadership at LRN

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Susan Divers, currently Director of Thought Leadership at LRN.

In this concluding episode, Susan discusses her failed retirement from AECOM and how LRN found her. She took from AECOM an interest in what works in an effective compliance and ethics program. She discussed the values that LRN espouses for compliance and ethics programs and how that dovetails with her experiences as a CECO. She discussed company’s which put their values into action during the pandemic. We concluded with Susan looking down the road at the role of the CCO and corporate compliance function and the intersection of compliance and ESG.

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Susan Divers – Sitting in the CECO Chair

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Susan Divers, currently Director of Thought Leadership at LRN.

In 2009, Susan moved into the CECO chair at AECOM. She became the Senior Corporate Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer & Associate General at AECOM. In this role she built out a compliance program across the globe for an international infrastructure construction company and built out her compliance team. She learned that to engage employees in compliance and ethics you often needed to explain the ‘why’ of compliance. She talked about the values of senior leadership and how that helped infuse compliance throughout the organization. She was particularly proud of the company receiving a World’s Most Ethical designation early in her tenure and then for five consecutive years.

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 Susan Divers LinkedIn Profile

LRN

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Susan Divers-Moving In-House

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Susan Divers, currently Director of Thought Leadership at LRN.

In 1994,  Susan moved in-house becoming the first Deputy GC for international at SAIC.  In this role she set up compliance programs for ABC, trade controls and investigations as SAIC did not have a dedicated CECO at that time. She traveled extensively internationally and had experience with the Overseas Private Investment Company after the SAIC joint venture was nationalized by Chavez in Venezuela. After a brief stop at Lockheed Martin, Susan moved to the Chief Ethics and Compliance (CECO) role at AECOM.

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 Susan Divers LinkedIn Profile

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Susan Divers – College & Early Professional Career


The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Susan Divers, currently Director of Thought Leadership at LRN.
Susan graduated from George Washington University at night while working at the State Department during the day. Her legal career began Office of the Legal Advisor at the State Department and continued in London with two large law firms.  I moved back to Washington, entered private practice, working first with Bob Strauss at Akin Gump and then moving over Sonnenshien’s DC office where she became a partner.
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Susan Divers on the LRN Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report


In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I am joined Susan Divers, Director of Thought Leadership at LRN. We discuss recently released LRN Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report. Highlights in include:

  • What is the LRN Ethics & Compliance Program Effectiveness Report?
  • What does it measure?
  • How is it generated?
  • Why is culture so critical?
  • What are the values in values?
  • What is LRN’s High Performance Premium?
  • What are the roles of managers and leaders?
  • What are the keys to effective training?
  • What will the new normal for compliance programs look like going forward?
  • The issue of culture and values down the road into 2025 and beyond.

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Episode 225 – Interview of Susan Divers, LRN Senior Advisor


Susan Divers, LRN Senior Advisor, reviews LRN’s 2022 Ethics and Compliance Program Effectiveness Report. LRN conducts an annual Ethics, and Compliance Program Effectiveness Report (“LRN Report”) th (https://pages.lrn.com/2022-pei-report)at is a must-read for business leaders, managers, investors, compliance professionals, and other stakeholders. LRN’s annual report has addressed key issues surrounding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on companies and ethics and compliance programs.