Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

What happens when a compliance program gets lost in translation? Or worse, what if you translate your compliance program but it's still missing important information and details? Carlos Ayres, Founding Partner at Maeda, Ayres & Sarubbi Advogados, works with compliance, investigations, and government enforcement to implement and enhance their compliance programs and anti-corruption measures. Tom and Carlos discuss the importance of ‘tropicalizing’ your compliance program and how it benefits the organization.What does tropicalizing your compliance program mean? Let's say you have a company in the United States and you decide to open a satellite branch in Latin America. It’s common practice for US-based headquarters to share their compliance programs and other resources to help set up the international branch. This is where the problems usually start. Compliance training programs and policies are often directly translated into the international branch's language with little to no regard for local compliance

We know what a bribe is and what to do to avoid it, but bribery often takes many forms. If that's the case, how can you prepare employees to identify and address risks that aren't presented in black and white? Join Tom Fox and SAI Vice President of Learning, Rebecca Turco, as they discuss compliance training solutions. They talk about some of Rebecca's best practices in compliance and ethics training, along with other trends in learning.  Finding effective ways to target users with personalized training content can be quite a struggle for some companies. This is because one-size-fits-all compliance training programs aren't effective in delivering key information. This is where adaptive learning comes in handy. It presents content and relevant information in more meaningful and relatable ways. Rebecca talks about how adaptive learning doesn't reinvent the whole training process. How it gives participants the freedom to skip the topics they already understand and focus on new yet relevant pieces of in

Corporate training programs are a great investment. They’re designed to address specific needs to improve the organization and help minimize compliance issues. But given the number of employees and hours it takes to fulfill these requirements, it’s also a hefty expense. How can companies invest in such programs and keep their stakeholders happy? Join Tom Fox and Shawn Rogers as they talk about corporate governance and how it can streamline corporate training protocols.What inspired Shawn to integrate corporate governance into his training protocols? Required training in corporations goes beyond traditional compliance risk training programs. There is training for safety, cybersecurity, information, and lifecycle management - and the list goes on and on. As the Lead Counsel of Compliance Training and Communications at General Motors, Shawn helped devise a plan to keep the selection of programs relevant and fresh, which was no small feat.Faced with such a task, Shawn had to come up with an innovative solution. S

Today’s episode focuses on the measurability of KPIs in organizational justice. Tom is joined by Philip Winterburn, Chief Product Officer at Convercent. Together, they dive deep into fairness, using surveys to test the ethical health of an organization, and the value of benchmarking. Organizational justice is not just about procedures, it goes beyond the law. It’s about how we treat employees throughout their employment. Fairness is when the hierarchy doesn’t affect the consequences of unethical behavLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when you acquire or merge with a company with FCPA violations? What are the risks that come from doing so? Eric Feldman, Senior Vice President of Affiliated Monitors, Inc.™,  joins Tom to talk about mergers and acquisitions. They discuss the role that the pre-acquisition and post-acquisition phases play in integrating the target company’s systems and culture into your own company.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your suppliers aren’t the only risk for your company. When was the last time you investigated your customers? There’s an estimated $800 billion to $2 trillion dollars worth of laundered money circulating in the U.S., and it will only get worse unless better guidelines and fail-safes are in place. Jane Jee joins Tom to discuss the importance of customer due diligence and beneficial ownership regulations in corporate compliance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporting a compliance infraction might sound easy until you’re the one who needs to make the call. Today, Tom and Keturah Pestel share an insightful conversation on the value of proactive internal reporting. Keturah is the Code of Conduct Program Manager for Thrivent’s Business Ethics Office. She is also participating Converge18 as one of the Breakout Speakers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blockchain technology stretches across a wide selection of corporate industries. This ever-evolving digital ledger chronologically and publicly records transactions, and now has anti-corruption compliance professionals asking how blockchain fits into a broader corporate compliance strategy. Tom welcomes two thought leaders from Ernst and Young: Paul Brody and Alexander Perry. The three of them discuss the power of blockchains and how they can be effectively implemented in a compliance practice.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conflict of interest can turn into a tricky conversation, especially with the steady rise of independent contractors working for multiple clients at a time. Today’s guest, David Bunker, helps us understand the ‘conflict of interest’ risk management process. David is one of the top compliance professionals around and serves as the Compliance Officer for Vulcan Inc. Tom and David discuss how to best handle these kinds of risks and what independent gig economy contractors can do for your organization.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jared Connors is a subject matter expert on Corporate Social Responsibility and Compliance at Assent, an innovative company that helps businesses to link their CSR and Compliance departments to ensure a strong and ethical supply chain. In turn, this also creates a more efficient business and gives companies and competitive advantage in the marketplace.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporting compliance issues can be a complex problem for both frontline employees and compliance practitioners. In today’s episode, Tom talks with Philip Winterburn, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Convercent – a Denver, Colorado-based compliance software company.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Hunt in the Chief Audit Executive and Ethics and Compliance Officer at AARP. Her experience in the industry is impressive: running departments, reporting to governance, handling investigations, designing education, and more. She’s been featured in numerous Ethics and Compliance publications and she regularly contributes to others. Ellen will be presenting at Converge18, and today’s episode is a preview of the amazing content she has to share.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The best things come in pairs. In part two of this week’s 5-part series – centered on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Tom talks about the innovative use of the digital twin concept. This model enables compliance professionals to test and predict a wide array of issues in order to beef up prevention efforts and better understand critical risk points.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is your compliance function ready for the digital future? In the final episode of this week’s 5-part Sherlock Holmes and Innovation and Compliance crossover, Tom highlights this critical question that every compliance profession should be asking themselves.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you even gotten the class "English, please!" when talking about analytics? This episode is for you. In the 4th episode of our weeklong Sherlock Holmes series, Tom talks about various issues around interpreting data in the compliance space.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elementary, my dear Watson! In the first episode of this Sherlock Holmes themed 5-part series, Tom reviews how a CCO or compliance practitioner can develop a digital strategy to help increase the value proposition for a corporate compliance program.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you speak data? Does your boss? In part three of the Sherlock Holmes and compliance 5-part series, Tom discusses the role of the corporate compliance officer in translating data for decision makers and provides some tips for making sure you’re understood by those who are less data-savvy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from this year’s Podcast Movement Conference, Tom covers his two favorite things: innovation in compliance and the 2017 World Series winning team, the Houston Astros. As a case study on the uses of data and analytics from a compliance perspective, Tom talks about the Astro’s Big Data approach to team management as well as other important compliance issues of the day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These days, it takes more than a Google search to find the dirt you’re looking for. Tom talks with Jane Jee, the CEO of Kompli-Global, about some of their innovative due diligence reporting products. They discuss what the future of DD needs to look like to keep up with the sophisticated money launders of the digital era.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite their reputation for inevitable shrinkage, the cash register is no match for a smart machine. In this episode, anti-fraud, anti- corruption and compliance analytics expert Vince Walden returns to the Innovation and Compliance Podcast to talk about his latest article in Fraud Magazine titled ‘Machine learning’ fights fraud behind cash registers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices