Leadership and Career

There is real benefit to dealing proactively with your organization’s past transgressions. Michael Toebe discusses how leaders should respond when their company’s skeletons are revealed. Once, organizations could mostly be concerned only about newly developing misconduct and shortcomings and failures of governance and compliance. But the times they are a changin’, and errors deep in history can prove to be...

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020 4:30 - 6 p.m. (Eastern) Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley, co-authors of Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We've Learned from Great Women in Compliance (CCI Press, 2020) will host a virtual book launch party to honor the book's contributors and welcome readers to the GWIC community. The event will be hosted on the Zoom platform...

It’s simple enough to voice what we know we believe and identify how it shapes our decisions. Unconscious biases are trickier, more elusive. Linda Henman discusses why it’s critical to close the gap between what we say and what we do. Every decision starts with a belief. That is, we base our decisions on what we know to be true...

On either end of the leadership spectrum, we have Vulcans and Roadrunners – the former often cursed by analysis paralysis and the latter known for making knee-jerk reactions. The chronically risk averse versus the risk seeking. As Linda Henman explains, the best leaders tend to fall squarely in the middle. Theorists, authors and speakers offer leadership advice to anyone who...

With the emergence of the COVID-19 virus and social unrest, most organizations face an uncertain future. There are exciting market opportunities as well as emerging threats. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach asserts that, with disruptive change the norm, directors and executives must ask a fundamental question: “are we future ready?” “Future ready” is a term that takes on a clear meaning in...

In her role as co-host of the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, Mary Shirley has met a lot of the greats. Here, she offers perspective on what it is that sets these women apart. (And stay tuned for the Great Women in Compliance book, due out this fall, from Mary and Lisa Fine!) Over the last couple of years, I...

Yesterday's marathon of break-out sessions concluded at 5 p.m. with a virtual "happy hour" of sorts that included a BYOB webcast of a piano-playing singer pounding an electric keyboard, strumming a guitar and taking song requests via chat stream from his (impressively tidy) bedroom. If it sounds a little weird, it was. But it also was genuinely entertaining in an...

CCI's parent company to offer business book publishing; independent Imprint will offer traditional publishing as well as self-publishing options for GRC niche business and career-related books DALLAS, TX (September 1, 2020) – CCI Media Group LLC today announced the launch of CCI Press, an independent imprint that will publish business and career-related books targeting readers in corporate compliance, risk management...

Under pressure from a public no longer satisfied with the status quo, organizations are being challenged to enhance their diversity and inclusion efforts. Emtrain Founder and CEO Janine Yancey discusses the compliance officer’s role in this process. Since the death of George Floyd on May 25, there has been a growing recognition globally of changing social values and the need...

The compliance profession offers ample learning opportunities for practitioners at every career stage – from newbies to veterans. Mary Shirley offers insight into the lessons she’s learned from 10 years on the road. In 2010, I packed one suitcase to embark on a rather impromptu decision to move to Singapore. It was to be a two-year expat journey that triggered...

These days, difficult decisions abound – Is it time to reopen? How do we do that safely? – and they’re made tougher when complicated by cognitive dissonance. Linda Henman explains how to reduce dissonance and discusses a sure-fire way to make the tough call. In 1957, Leon Festinger introduced “cognitive dissonance,” a research-based theory that posits that internal psychological consistency...

Changing your perceptions and your own behavior can be key to overcoming a challenge. Linda Henman encourages leaders to turn off behavior “autopilot” to make sure what they’re doing is really working. Too often discussions of attitudes, values and beliefs center on the person, making us blind to the power of the situation. Marketers advocate finding the right psychographic for...