Leadership and Career

The old adage, "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail" certainly applies to the job search process. Amy Landry discusses how to plan for a successful job search. Someone shared this post with me recently. In it, Jenny Foss outlines her eight steps to a successful career change, but I feel you can leverage these steps to find...

This week, Amy Landry takes a slight break from sharing job searching tips and instead talks about Data Privacy Day. Why? Because today is Data Privacy Day, and privacy affects everyone! According to the UN, 128 out of 194 countries have passed legislation to secure the protection of data and privacy. Gartner shared back in the fall of 2020 that...

As many job seekers know, it often takes more than a strong resume and determination to secure an offer. Amy Landry discusses why your network may be the most effective tool in your job search arsenal. It’s been said that 70 to 85 percent of jobs are filled through networking vs. cold applying. Wow. If that’s true, it means 15...

Tom Fox offers wisdom from an unlikely source: one of the greatest movie villains of all time. It may seem strange to aspire to be like Darth Vader, but Tom argues convincingly that this ultimate villain is, in fact, an effective leader. Plus, he has quite a way with words.  

Happy New Year to everyone!  What a great way to kick off a new year with a new home for my career transitioning blog here at Corporate Compliance Insights.  So happy for this amazing opportunity.  To those of you who are new to my blog, let me give you a quick overview of who am I and what my blog...

In the past year, CIOs and CISOs faced unprecedented disruption. Some of these leaders handled the crisis with aplomb, enabling their companies’ resilience and success. Diligent CEO Brian Stafford discusses what we can learn from them. Seldom has any group in the corporate world faced more disruption more quickly than CIOs and CISOs in the context of COVID-19. The forced,...

There are countless reasons to praise others. Most importantly: It’s just the right thing to do. Mary Shirley, co-host of the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, discusses how to be intentional about recognizing staff, even when you’re not in a position of authority. As the holiday season draws upon many of us, it's a time to be thankful and show...

Michael Toebe shares practical insights from compliance experts on how to establish a speak-up culture (not just a process), why tone from the top alone isn’t enough and how leadership can prove their credibility and commitment to investigating wrongdoing. Speaking up in the face of problems is not as welcomed and practiced as it could, should and needs to be...

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...