Compliance Perspectives

Post By: Adam Turteltaub NOTE: This podcast was recorded prior to the conversion of the Compliance & Ethics Institute to a virtual program. Some of the sessions and their tracks may have changed. Be sure to visit the website to see the latest agenda. Compliance is about much more than understanding the law. It requires a great many other skills, which is where the Professional Skills track at the Compliance & Ethics Institute comes in. The track chairs are Ellen Hunt, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer and Chief Audit Executive at AARP and Walter Johnson, Assistant Privacy Officer at Inova Health System. As they explain in this podcast being a strong compliance professional requires emotional intelligence, the ability to build relationships, create change, negotiate and provide value to an organization. All of these skills are transferable to other positions at well. As they selected sessions for the track they worked to balance out training in these areas and help foster the mental agility so important to success. Here are some of the sessions: Clear, Concise, and Captivating – Tips on How to Communicate with the C-Suite and Board of Directors Considering Consulting or Starting Your Own Compliance Business? What to do NOW to Prepare for Success The 7 Habits of an Effective Compliance & Ethics Professional Listen in as they preview some of the sessions and share their efforts to improve their own professional skills.

Post By: Adam Turteltaub The amount of data collected by organizations has skyrocketed over the last two days and with it, notes Dean Gonsowski, Chief Revenue Officer at Active Navigation, has come a change in the equation. Instead of creating more value, more data is creating more risk. In this podcast he encourages companies to change from a collect all you can mode to one in which organizations start by asking “Why are we collecting this data?” The next questions to ask: what data do we already have and where is it stored? Too often, he explains, data is stored in unstructured formats such as in file sharing sites and shared drives. That makes data difficult to track and easy to go astray. It’s time, he argues, to starting thinking about purposeful, intentional and minimal collection of data. Then, for the data you have, audit and monitor to make sure that the data is being collected, housed and used properly.

Post By: Adam Turteltaub NOTE: This podcast was recorded prior to the conversion of the Compliance & Ethics Institute to a virtual program. Some of the sessions and their tracks may have changed. Be sure to visit the website to see the latest agenda. When Lisa Gross, Ethics Senior Manger at Lockheed Martin and Art Weiss, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Tamko Building Products set to work as co-chairs of the Ethics Track for the 2020 Compliance & Ethics institute, their objective was both simple and ambitious: to select a broad selection of topics that would cover the issues that are pressing today and the needs across the spectrum of compliance and ethics professionals. Looking at the agenda, you can see that they succeeded. They also ended up demonstrating that the core of ethics management is largely the same, whether in stable times when they set the agenda, or the more troubling present. As they explain in this podcast, the organization’s values must stay the same and serve as the foundation for decisions and actions. That’s especially true these days when so much is unstable and businesspeople are learning new ways to work together. No matter the change, though, compliance professionals and business leaders have to keep watch on the corporate culture. Here, too, the values are essential, but, also, practical matters are important, such as ensuring that lines of communication are open and accessible. Listen in to gain more of their insights and a preview of what to expect on the Ethics Track at the 2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute.