Leadership and Career

Reputation and crisis specialist Michael Toebe discusses the “stink test,” a practical technique for analyzing and making decisions in the corporate world. Well-formed decision analysis is not only a necessary, critical process; it is, if done expertly, far smarter, improved risk management. It works cohesively with and allows for strength of decision-making, increasing the odds of higher-quality outcomes in leadership,...

Vault Platform CEO Neta Meidav explores how to create a “speak up” culture in the workplace – one that ensures employees don’t fear retribution if whistleblowing or reporting harassment. Though the roots of #MeToo trace back upward of a decade, the movement hit its stride in the fall of 2017, prompting increased scrutiny around bad behaviors and spawning the creation...

Audrey Harris, partner and co-chair of Mayer Brown’s global anti-corruption & FCPA practice, talks all things anti-corruption – from Jay Clayton’s critique of regulators’ lackluster enforcement to the next frontier of compliance. CCI: Tell us about your background. How did you get your start in compliance? Audrey Harris: After Georgetown Law, I spent my associate and early partner years at...

While she was in Maryland recently for a conference, CCI caught up with Amii Barnard-Bahn, recently described by Forbes magazine as “one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives.” Barnard-Bahn, a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Coaching and a columnist for Compliance Week, was influential in steering the passage of California’s recent Bill SB826, the first law...

Mary Shirley of Fresenius and the Great Women in Compliance podcast offers solid guidance for professionals new to compliance. The interviewing process can be daunting -- but will be less so with advice from Mary. Your hard work tailoring applications to the job and company has paid off and you’ve been invited to interview. Congratulations on being shortlisted! How do you...

When you allow circumstances to define you, you lose the ability to respond objectively – and effectively – to a crisis. Linda Henman offers two contrasting examples of crisis management in practice: Merck missed the mark, but Tylenol triumphed. While we were writing The Merger Mindset, my co-author, Dr. Constance Dierickx, identified a new genre of people: the chronically aggrieved....

MetricStream’s COO, Gaurav Kapoor, discusses how the Chief Risk Officer’s role is changing; CROs are finding themselves increasingly focused on enabling growth while simultaneously ensuring stability. It’s a global trend: Consumers and investors are demanding better standards of corporate governance and integrity. This trend has effectively shifted the focus of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) from traditional risk areas, such...

Looking for your first job when fresh out of college can be a demoralizing experience. Just finding suitable roles to apply for can be a herculean task in and of itself. So, when you do get an opportunity befitting an eager and keen prospect such as yourself, make sure you grasp it, and make your application count. Mary Shirley offers...

A CCO’s most valuable resource is time. But with high expectations and limited resources to do the job well, CCOs can quickly become overwhelmed. Michael Volkov provides a framework for dealing with some of the role’s greatest challenges. Chief compliance officers have a hard job. CCOs know that fact, and they fully embrace the challenges of their positions. At the same...

We are pleased to share a recent interview between Hanzo’s Sean Freidlin and compliance expert Elizabeth O’Keefe. Sean and Elizabeth cover a lot of ground, including the traits that make a strong compliance officer and digging deeper to carry compliance forward. Sean Freidlin: Hello, everyone. My name is Sean Freidlin. I am a Compliance Marketing Manager at Hanzo. And today...

Many companies have clear strategies in place to increase diversity and inclusion (D&I) among leaders, but it remains unclear how these policies are making change. Deloitte’s Sandy Cockrell and Carol Larson discuss CFOs’ increasingly important role in championing D&I. Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are top of mind for executives and organizations of all sizes, but progress remains sluggish. For example,...

Linda Henman offers some guidance on making the kinds of decisions that keep senior leaders awake at night. Among this sage advice: consensus isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and it’s probably time to put those sacred cows out to pasture.   Global economic turmoil has taught numerous lessons — the most important one: When leaders make good decisions,...