Leadership and Career

3 Ways to Affect a Different Kind of Climate Change In light of the corporate compliance failures that have entered the news cycle, compliance programs have increasingly focused on the role culture plays in causing these failures. However, while most compliance executives understand the link between culture and employee misconduct, they are not sure how to act on it. In...

A Lesson on Faulty Risk-Taking It’s impossible to plan for – or even imagine – every eventuality when assessing risk, but a pragmatic approach is never ill-advised. The folks at the Discovery Channel learned a hard lesson when a television stunt backfired, not delivering the much-hyped outcome viewers expected. Here are some takeaways for savvier business leaders. In December of...

Here’s How They’re Failing The relationship between compliance officers and the company’s top leadership is a hot one these days, and there are specific ways CEOs can be more effectively supporting compliance practitioners. It’s a complex relationship, but one bears improving in many cases. Avani Desai offers insights into just what executives can do better. When speaking with CEOs and...

For many organizations, a crisis may lead to just financial losses. But for airlines, it could mean life or death. In this episode of Resilient, Paul Morell, the former VP of Safety, Regulatory Compliance and Environmental for American Airlines, shares what he’s learned about mitigating risk in the airline industry — and how companies can get ahead of tomorrow’s risks. Paul and...

Baker Botts recently sponsored a diversity summit in New York, and one common theme throughout the event was the need for organizations to treat gender parity as a business imperative. Companies tend to approach the issue seriously, but many fail to measure results, which complicates any effort to drive incremental improvements. Ethisphere's Aarti Maharaj covered the event and discusses the...

10 Strategies to Be More Successful No doubt there are hurdles each of us face on the path to professional success, but often those obstacles are of our own making. Linda Henman shares guidance to help executives, business leaders and virtually any professional get out of his or her own way. As my clients began to emerge from the global...

(And How to Avoid Making Them) We all make mistakes, and CCOs are no exception. While CCOs are a creative and dedicated bunch, they are often susceptible to these five common mistakes. Probably unsurprisingly, the cure for these ills is more due diligence and more relationship building. Chief Compliance Officers are fallible – I know that is not a controversial...

Imagine going into an outpatient facility for a simple procedure and coming out weeks later confined to a wheelchair. That's what happened to Mallory Weggemann — who's now a professional athlete, motivational speaker and writer at The Factory Agency — when she was just 18 years old. How has Mallory overcome adversity and found strength in her disability? Not only...

By Sean Freidlin, Ethics and Compliance Marketing Manager at SAI Global In my interactions with compliance officers and the E&C community over the years, there has been one constant narrative that I’ve observed. The job of an ethics and compliance professional, while constantly evolving, is consistently difficult, stressful, risky, and often thankless. In fact, a survey conducted in 2012 by...

Q&A with Dennis Keglovits, VP of Services at LockPath Maurice recently had the opportunity to interview LockPath’s Dennis Keglovits, a long-time GRC practitioner who learned early on the importance of access to and partnership with other departments. He sees the compliance function, and the role of the CCO, as changing, taking on a more strategic bent. Compliance is often known...

Every year, Mary Meeker, a partner at venture capital firm KPCB, publishes a comprehensive guide on internet trends. This year’s guide was just released, and SAI Global’s Sean Freidlin offers highlights for the compliance and ethics practitioner. The findings can be hugely informative when it comes to ethics and compliance training and strategies in terms of mitigating data privacy and...

Discarding the Fear-Driven Mentality Traditional wisdom is that stress is bad, and the lack of it is good. They’re not all wrong, there, but professionally speaking, a little stress can be the difference between lolling about in your comfort zone and taking a critical – though uncomfortable – step to further the business’ success (and your own career). Fear of...