How Ethics & Compliance Manages Growing Pains

By Matt Kelly If the business where you work is smart and lucky, eventually it will hit an expansion phase. This is good news for the company, and, in theory, good news for ethics and compliance officers. Expansion phases, however, might not feel like good news in practice. When companies jump into “the big world” for the first time – foreign markets, new product lines, new divisions gained through acquisition – those can be some Read more…

3 Talking Points to Identify and Communicate the Good and Bad of Your Ethics & Compliance Program

By Matt Kelly Learn how to have the most productive conversations with the CEO and board while addressing the risk management process that keeps you up at night. Risk assurance executives—whether they work in compliance, internal audit, risk management, IT security, or any other related function—ultimately worry about three things as they do their jobs. Is everything functioning normally? Do I understand how to address anything not functioning normally? Am I working effectively with everyone Read more…

The Ever-Growing List of Compliance Terminology

How to improve your compliance vocabulary and become the smartest most well-versed compliance professional you know? Stay up to date with this ever-growing list of governance, risk and compliance terms. Use the following list to identify and understand the many terms related to governance, risk and compliance, including regulatory definitions and words and phrases about corporate governance and risk mitigation. Read full article here !