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Ethicast is the official podcast of Ethisphere, helping clients build a legacy of ethical value that drives business success, showcasing the latest insights from ethics and compliance thought leaders around the world each week because doing business the right way, is the right thing for business.
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- Today15 min
How to Create a Killer Compliance Newsletter
In this episode, Dianne Ramos and Tiffany Rinehart of Guardian Life Insurance discuss how they launched their incredibly successful compliance newsletter and how that's just part of a broader strategy to communicate and engage with Guardian's employee community. Dianne and Tiffany explain why they fought for this newsletter, how they developed it, and what you can learn if you’re thinking of launching an internal compliance newsletter yourself. Connect with Dianne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianne-c-ramos/Connect with Tiffany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyrhiannonrinehart/ Learn more about Guardian Life: https://www.guardianlife.com/about-guardian Chapters - What inspired Dianne and Tiffany to create an ethics and compliance newsletter, and how they got the support they needed - What is - and is not - newsletter-worthy - Why the newsletter has sky-high open rates and how to maintain such robust audience engagement - How a strong newsletter helps employees feel connected to the ethics and compliance program - The most surprising things Dianne and Tiffany learned about the publishing process and how it impacts Guardian's E&C program
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Only Ethics and Compliance Can Save AI’s Social License to Operate
On September 9, a Wall Street Journal story described an Anthropic researcher quitting over fears that AI is becoming impossible to control. Two days later, JUST Capital reported that 78% of people who use AI every day now support pausing development just to rebuild trust in it. AI's social license to operate is under real pressure this year: rare books destroyed to make AI training data, an OpenAI security test where more than a thousand agents coordinated their way outside the sandbox, and a public losing patience faster than the industry can respond. In this episode, Ethicast host Bill Coffin makes the case that ethics and compliance teams are already positioned to lead here, if they're willing to put AI to work on their own programs instead of only governing everyone else's. Is your ethics and compliance program already putting AI to work for itself, or still waiting for permission? Check out our latest research: The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance: www.ethisphere.com
- 3 weeks ago16 min
The Legal Impact of AI in Investigations
Internal investigations is an aspect of the ethics and compliance function that faces considerable pressure, thanks to an increasing volume of misconduct reports worldwide. This only adds to the ongoing tension E&C teams face with ever-expanding remits and responsibilities without necessarily receiving additional resources with which to address them. Into that mix, AI is giving ethics and compliance teams an asymmetrical ability to cover a lot more ground than ever before. In few areas is this more visible than in misconduct investigations, where AI enables teams to process vast amounts of data with unprecedented speed, discover fact patterns that human operators might miss, and reduce the overall amount of time an investigation takes—from weeks to perhaps only days. These changes are not universal across all E&C programs, of course, but the degree to which AI is transforming investigations is something ethics and compliance teams cannot afford to ignore. In this episode, Maria Piontkovska, a partner with Baker McKenzie's Litigation & Government Enforcement group, discusses how AI is transforming misconduct investigations, both in how they’re being carried out, and how misconduct itself is being reported. Connect with Maria: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/p/piontkovska-maria Read Ethisphere's study, "The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance": https://ethisphere.com/resources/ai-data-report/ Follow Ethisphere on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/899505/admin/ Thanks for joining us! And until next time, remember: strong ethics is good business. Chapters - Using of AI to speed up documentation review & early case assessment - How people use AI to frame their misconduct reporting itself - AI meeting transcription as investigations tool and consent risk - Using AI to craft interview questions and analyze answers
- 4 weeks ago24 min
BELA Asks: How Do I Create a Policy on Smart Glasses?
Here at Ethisphere, we believe there is no competition in compliance. That’s why we’re using this show as a platform to answer high-level questions about business integrity that have been posed to us by the members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, or BELA. And in this special live episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer and BELA Chair BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers three questions that have been posed to us recently: What should I consider when creating a policy around the use of smart glasses? How do I think about the impact of transcripts and recordings on investigations? How can I get people excited about records retention? You've got questions, and we've got answers! Welcome to another BELA Asks episode of the Ethicast. Learn more about BELA here: https://www.ethisphere.com/bela Chapters - What should I consider when creating a policy around the use of smart glasses? - How should I think about the impact of transcripts and recordings on investigations? (esp. auto-generated AI transcripts) - How can I get people excited about records retention? - Learning more about BELA
- Aug 17, 202617 min
The Surprising Data Around How Ethics Programs Use AI
"The Cobbler's Children" is an old story about a shoemaker who outfits the whole town while his own children go barefoot. This summer, Ethisphere and Ethena partnered to publish The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance, a report that surveyed 134 organizations representing senior E&C leaders around how and where they were adopting AI into their programs. What we found was that E&C teams face their own version of the Cobbler’s Children fable. They spent two years writing the AI rules for their enterprises — approving tools, drafting guardrails, building governance. It worked. But we also found a surprising gap between how much E&C governed AI versus how much E&C actually implemented AI. In fact, 67% of organizations have reached broad or advanced AI adoption. Yet only 22% of the E&C functions inside them can say the same—their the governance mandate arrived before the function's own buildout. In this episode, Katie Kruger, Senior Culture Analyst at Ethisphere, discusses the role she played interrogating the survey data that informs The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance report. and shares a few exclusive findings that the report does not include. To read The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance for free, as well as to try out our free AI benchmarking tool, visit www.ethisphere.com. Chapters - The data point that nobody saw coming - How responsible should E&C be for governing AI? - Why E&C teams aren't measuring their AI use...yet - BELA steps up yet again to share its knowledge - Words of wisdom from a survey respondent
- Aug 10, 202618 min
How Phillips 66 Improved its Ethics and Compliance with "Metrics That Matter"
Phillips 66 is a Fortune 500 American multinational headquartered in Houston, Texas. It is a global leader in the energy industry, specializing in petrochemical refining, transporting, marketing, and research & development. It also supplies and provides marketing support to filling stations across the United States under the Phillips 66, Conoco and 76 brands. As a public company, a major multinational, and a member of the heavily regulated energy industry, Phillips 66 has significant corporate compliance obligations to uphold. And that makes measuring and reporting program efficiency absolutely crucial to the program’s success. And under the “Metrics That Matter” initiative, Kristin Andrade (Manager, Office of Ethics) and Tom Lucek (Senior Advisor, Ops, Data Reporting & Tech) share how the Global Ethics & Compliance team at Phillips 66 has created a robust data ecosystem that empowers and advances its program. Chapters - Putting structure around a large body of disconnected data - Use of training dashboards captured how well the team was making use of targeted training - How to interrogate the data & decide which trends to pursue - Using AI to build a Board-ready narrative for the CCO - How this builds support for the E&C program - Cultivate a strong relationship with measurement & metrics
- Aug 4, 202624 min
Lessons From KPMG Australia's Speak-Up Scandal
KPMG Australia has made repeated headlines over the last two years for an ongoing scandal involving the misuse of confidential client information, whistleblower retaliation, internal investigations gone wrong, toxic culture, and wayward leadership. In recent days, this has culminated in extraordinary organizational tumult, as KMPG Australia faces lost business, governmental investigation, leadership departures, and a massive loss of trust. In this special episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne dives into the ongoing whistleblower scandal that has enveloped KPMG Australia and unpacks what organizations can take from this to improve their speak-up culture, anti-retaliation measures, investigations processes, executive accountability, and organizational justice. For plenty of free ethics and compliance resources, especially around speak-up culture, anti-retaliation, internal investigations, psychological safety, and organizational justice , please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources. Chapters - Speak-up culture depends on the strength of its anti-retaliation efforts - Addressing workplace retaliation means addressing the toxic culture that enables it - The importance of thorough, honest, and fair internal investigations - How to begin an enterprise-wide rehabilitation, when the issues start at the top - How the scandal at KPMG Australia creates a domino effect for other companies
- Jul 29, 202622 min
2027 World’s Most Ethical Companies Application Best Practices
The World’s Most Ethical Companies recognizes enterprises that have demonstrated best-in-class ethics and compliance programs, corporate governance practices, and cultures of integrity. The 2027 application period begins tomorrow, July 29, and the final submission deadline is Thursday, October 29 at 8:00 p.m. ET. As returning applicants know, the application process is always a little different from year to year as the landscape of ethics and compliance itself never stops changing. So let’s get into some of the ways that applicants can set themselves up for success. In this episode, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, shares her insights on some best practices to keep in mind when applying for the 2027 World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition. Including: How should applicants budget their time and people-hours for this task Properly documenting your application How to connect with allied functions across the enterprise to get crucial details Advice for first-time applicants, especially with smaller or younger E&C programs What Ethisphere does - and doesn't - want to see from this year’s applicants To learn more about the World’s Most Ethical Companies, visit worldsmostethicalcompanies.com. The 2027 application period runs from July 29 to October 29 at 8:00 p.m. ET. To take a deep dive into the application process itself, register for our free webinar, Guide to Applying for the 2027 World’s Most Ethical Companies®, at https://ethisphere.com/webinars
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Ethicast is the official podcast of Ethisphere, helping clients build a legacy of ethical value that drives business success, showcasing the latest insights from ethics and compliance thought leaders around the world each week because doing business the right way, is the right thing for business.
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