In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa welcomes Rebecca Walker, principal at Kaplan & Walker and a trailblazer for compliance professionals, especially women. Rebecca received the SCCE’s 2026 Distinguished Lifetime Compliance Professional Award.
Rebecca reflects on the profession and how it has evolved over the years, and Lisa takes the opportunity to discuss two important challenges for compliance professionals that Rebecca has focused on lately—managing conflicts of interest and working with different types of boards.
Rebecca and Lisa discuss why organizations need to move beyond simply collecting disclosures to understanding and assessing actual risks, why employees should feel comfortable disclosing potential conflicts, and how behavioral ethics and unconscious bias can affect decision-making, particularly when personal relationships are involved.
Lisa and Rebecca also explore how compliance professionals can better engage the C-suite and boards, using three models of boards and executives—one that’s engaged, one that is inaccessible, and one that is engaged but not curious. She offers advice on turning compliance data into meaningful insights, finding internal champions, and communicating in ways that connect compliance priorities to business objectives.
Listen now to hear from one of the true women leaders who have built this field.