Leadership and Career

Compliance officers have hard jobs, but their salaries are trending upward. Analysis Exploring Compliance Officer Compensation in 2023 About this report from BarkerGilmore: Stressed-out compliance officers have reason to celebrate: Their salaries are going up. According to BarkerGilmore’s analysis, the average chief compliance officer earned 10% more in total compensation in 2022 than in 2021. The executive staffing agency’s analysis...

Life is full of curveballs. We’ve surely all had the experience of heading down what you believe is a predictable and logical set of next steps only to find that the path you thought you were taking is somehow unavailable. Change is unavoidable, but we can get better at handling it. Headlines recently have been filled with news of layoffs,...

This year alone, more than a dozen states have enacted anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, many of them seeking to curtail the freedom of transgender people. Hundreds more bills remain up for consideration across the country. It’s little wonder, then, that many trans workers feel unsupported, whether politically or professionally. But, as Cameron Zayne of the NeuroLeadership Institute argues, businesses that fail to...

CCI columnist Mary Shirley shares some of the lessons she learned during this year’s national compliance conference in Washington, D.C. About 500 risk, ethics and compliance professionals gathered May 15-17 in Washington, D.C. for the annual Compliance Week National Conference, always a fertile source of ideas for compliance practitioners and programs.  In particular, three things stood out the most to...

Ringing the opening bell on the Nasdaq or NYSE floor represents the culmination of a long and potentially risky IPO process. Securities lawyer Megan Penick of Michelman & Robinson offers an insider’s view of what it takes to get there. For public securities lawyers like me, nothing is quite as satisfying as celebrating a company’s listing during an opening or...

You’ve got the CEO’s buy-in that your ethics and compliance program is a central part of the company’s culture. That’s great news, but are you using their presence in the right way? Living Your Best Compliance Life columnist Mary Shirley offers her spin on well-worn training activities. For some time now, my team and I have been working on leveling...

As workers and companies continue to embrace flexible arrangements, including a mix of in-person and remote work, the focus is often on enabling job functions from a technical perspective. But intangibles like ethics also need to remain a focus. Asha Palmer, Skillsoft’s senior vice president of compliance solutions, offers tips on creating an ethical, equitable environment regardless of where your...

Not many people love to be told they’re doing something wrong. But for entrepreneurs and high-level corporate executives, avoiding criticism can allow a toxic workplace culture, one in which people are afraid to speak their mind, to take hold. Leadership expert Izzy Galicia shares his views on why embracing feedback — even negative words — can break the cycle of...

The Covid pandemic has given us all a lesson in how our physical and emotional well-being can be affected by workplace stress, and employers are increasingly building workplace well-being strategies. Author and consultant Anna Eliatamby shares her recommendations for a humanity-centered strategy discussion. Well-being strategies have become a popular organizational intervention because of Covid and its aftermath. They usually comprise...

Last week, about 300 ethics and compliance professionals descended upon Amsterdam’s Hotel Okura to participate in SCCE’s European Compliance & Ethics Institute for two and a half days of knowledge sharing and networking. CCI columnist Mary Shirley breaks down her thoughts from two of the sessions she attended. My first visit to Amsterdam, and first attendance at the ECEI in...

New guidance from the DOJ on what makes an effective compliance program should be mandatory reading for every corporate integrity professional. Living Your Best Compliance life columnist Mary Shirley shares her thoughts on upshots of the new guidance. This month kicked off with an exciting development for informing corporate compliance programs, the release of an updated “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance...

For compliance departments that need to do more with less, it’s tempting to lean into automated systems. Compliance and ethics consultant and author Vera Cherepanova warns that focusing on numbers — and not people — can cause more damage in the long run. With compliance teams around the world dealing with cost-cutting edicts from their employers, chief compliance officers face...