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Join host Bill Coffin as he interviews the top thought leaders in the world of business integrity as they share the best practices, innovations, and insights that showcase something every truly successful organization knows: strong ethics is good business.
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- 3 days ago15 min
Decoding AI at the 18th Annual Global Ethics Summit
In this episode, Emily Rickaby, Vice President, Content at Ethisphere, gives us a sneak peek at the agenda for the 18th Annual Global Ethics Summit and how it showcases the evolving role of AI in ethics and compliance. For the last two years, AI has shown up in nearly every conversation in ethics and compliance. E&C teams have written the governance frameworks, vetted the tools, and answered the Board’s questions. Some have gone on to put AI to work inside their own programs. Many haven’t started. And more than a few practitioners would be happy to go a whole week without hearing the acronym at all. That’s the backdrop for the 2027 Global Ethics Summit, Ethisphere’s 18th annual gathering of ethics and compliance leaders, taking place March 30–April 1 in Atlanta and online. This year’s theme is “Human-Centered, AI-Assisted.” It’s a framing that keeps people at the center of the work, with the technology in a supporting role. Every year, the Summit brings together hundreds of senior E&C leaders in person and thousands more online, with more than 100 speakers and sessions built around what attendees can put into practice the moment they get back to the office. And while AI will be part of the conversation, plenty on this year’s agenda has nothing to do with it. So whether your program is already running AI in production, still deciding where to start, or tired of the subject altogether, there’s a lot to talk about. To see the agenda and register, visit attendges.com. And if your organization is a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), you’re eligible for complimentary passes to the Summit. Visit attendges.com to find out how to claim yours. Chapters - How the “Human-Centered, AI-Assisted” theme captures E&C & AI right now - If you’ve got “AI fatigue,” don’t worry - How this year’s agenda treats the wide range of AI maturity within E&C - Non-AI Summit highlights to watch for - How attendees can best process everything they learn
- 1 weeks ago18 min
Anthropic’s IPO: Who’s Holding the AI Risk?
In this special live episode of the Ethicast, Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne dives into how Anthropic's IPO frames its liability limitations for AI risk, and how compliance officers should be thinking about the fine print when it comes to their own AI governance and risk assessment. Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/resource-search/ Chapters - How much should E&C teams consider the way AI companies limit their liability when integrating AI into their daily operations? - How often should compliance officers review Terms of Service for liability limitations, and in your experience, are they actually doing it frequently enough? - Do E&C leaders have a sufficient understanding of the risk exposure that their organization may have taken on through their use of AI? - What does the board governance of Anthropic's safety and risk committee tell us?
- 2 weeks ago11 min
FirstEnergy Powers Up its E&C Program
In this episode, Deandra Williams-Lewis, Vice President and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of FirstEnergy, shares her vision for the program, and the organization, as it continues its exemplary business integrity efforts. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy—one of the largest investor-owned electric systems in the United States—has undergone an incredible ethics and compliance maturity journey over the last five years. FirstEnergy’s subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in distributing, transmitting, and generating electricity, energy management, and other energy-related services for more than 6 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, and New York. Earlier this year, Ethisphere awarded this fully regulated utility company with the Compliance Leader Verification designation for 2026 through 2028, in recognition of FirstEnergy’s exemplary corporate ethics and compliance program and corporate culture. This is the second consecutive time FirstEnergy has earned this recognition. It is also the result of an incredible amount of hard work by the FirstEnergy compliance team to build a best-in-class ethics and compliance program. And now, after a round of well-deserved promotions, the program is entering a new chapter with new leadership that is eager to take things to the next level. Chapters - Deandra's vision for FirstEnergy's E&C program - Approaching talent recruitment and retention in a high-performance team - Making the shift from tactical to strategic - Building partnerships within the business - Hitting key proof points that the strategy is working - Having the best job in the world
- 3 weeks ago16 min
BELA Asks...All About Conflicts of Interest
In this live episode of the Ethicast, BELA Chair and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne fields three questions from the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance on how to address conflicts of interest - what model of approach to take, dealing with highly compensated board positions, and decentralizing approval responsibility. Interested in seeing what BELA is all about? Request your guest access here: https://ethisphere.com/solutions/bela/ Chapters - When managing conflicts of interest, what should we consider between going with a disclosure-based approach vs. a pre-clearance model? - How should we assess and manage potential influence or decision-making conflicts for employees who accept highly compensated board positions? - We are considering changing our conflicts of interest disclosure review & approval responsibility from the compliance team to the respective business leader. What best practices should we bear in mind?
- 4 weeks ago16 min
How to Close the Proxy Season Disclosure Gap
In this episode we speak with Vera Cherepanova, Executive Director of Boards of the Future - a U.S.-based nonprofit advancing ethical leadership and integrity at the highest levels of corporate power - to find out what thousands of SEC filings reveal about the gap between what companies say about ethics and what they can prove. The 2026 proxy season tested Boards of Directors on several fronts at once: legal challenges, political scrutiny, a fragmented voting landscape, and an SEC that is handing responsibility for governance back to boards and management. Against that backdrop, investors no longer want to know only whether a company says it governs ethics, risk, and AI responsibly. They want to know whether it can show it. To find out, Boards of the Future analyzed 4,766 SEC filings from S&P 500 companies and from the honorees of two major reputation rankings, including Ethisphere's 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies®. The result is the recently released report, 2026 Proxy Season Review: Ethics, AI Ethics, and Risk Disclosures, which shows a steady gap between what companies claim and what they disclose as proof. Ninety-four percent of companies name AI as a risk, but only 40% have assigned a board committee to oversee it. Ninety-two percent run an enterprise risk management program, yet just 22% state a risk appetite, and those are concentrated in heavily regulated sectors like financial services. And while nearly every company calls ethics foundational to its culture, only one in ten reports culture or ethics measurements to its board. Get your copy of 2026 Proxy Season Review: Ethics, AI Ethics, and Risk Disclosures, visit https://newboards.org Connect with Vera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/follow-vera-cherepanova/ Follow Ethisphere on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/899505/admin/ Visit the Ethisphere Resource Center: https://www.ethisphere.com/resources Chapters - Why it's better to govern risk by your own appetite than by regulatory pressure - How companies can close the overall AI governance gap by first determining who inside the company can decline an AI use case - How organizations should balance shared ownership of ethics and compliance against distributing that responsibility - Determine what one piece of evidence that companies should report around how their culture and ethics program actually works
- Oct 5, 202619 min
Christian Hunt on How to Humanize Compliance
Managing people-created risk is at the heart of what ethics and compliance is all about. Whether it’s making sure people understand, follow, and properly interpret the rules, advancing cultures of integrity, or measuring those systems to ensure that they’re effective…this work plays a crucial role in reducing organizational risk and building value. But it’s so easy to get caught up in the creation and maintenance of programs, policies, and procedures, that we can lose sight of the reason why they exist at all: to modify human behavior. Whether it’s by stick or by carrot, these things—and indeed, ethics and compliance itself—is really there to get people to behave with honesty, transparency, and integrity. And that’s where the discipline of behavioral science can play an important role in helping E&C programs make the greatest impact for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Our guest for this episode is Christian Hunt, the founder of Human Risk, a behavioral science-led consulting and training firm, specializing in the fields of Ethics & Compliance. He is also the author of the book, Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioral Science to Ethics and Compliance. And in our discussion, he'll dive into how the way we enforce the rules can be as important as the rules we’re enforcing. Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humanrisk/ Visit Human Risk at: https://www.human-risk.com/ Read the Human Risk Substack: https://humanrisk.substack.com/ Listen to the Human Risk podcast: https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/ Order your copy of Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioral Science to Ethics and Compliance: https://a.co/d/0crAdOD9 Subscribe to Ethsiphere Insights: https://ethisphere.com/newsletter/Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/resources/ Chapters - An example of a smart way to enforce rules that we break often - How to reach the majority of folks who want to follow the rules, but don't always - Knowing how and when to apply the right levels of discipline for misconduct - The struggle between putting up barriers vs. showing trust - Concepts of behavioral science that E&C professionals should internalize
- Sep 25, 202615 min
Why Managers Are the Missing Link in Ethical Culture and Compliance
Ethics and compliance programs often look strongest on paper. The policies are written, the training is assigned, the hotline is live, and the governance structure is in place. But their real test comes later, in the everyday moments when people face pressure, uncertainty, competing incentives, or a gray area that no policy can fully anticipate. This is where culture makes the difference between a compliance program that merely exists and one that helps people understand how to apply established rules and procedures when the business is moving quickly and the right answer may not feel obvious. In this episode, veteran compliance expert and compliance culture champion Evie Wentink, Founder of Ethical Edge Experts, shares how you can make your ethics and compliance program more practical, actionable, and connected to your way business actually runs. Evie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eviewentink/Ethical Edge Experts: https://www.ethicaledgeexperts.com/Ethisphere Culture Assessments: https://ethisphere.com/solutions/culture-assessment/ Chapters - Best practices for organizations to incorporate ethics and compliance into their manager training - Recommendations for how E&C leaders should pursue the communications side of what they do - How to communicate to internal partners that ethics and compliance is a strategic investment, rather than a cost center - How E&C leaders can nurture their team even when budgets get tight
- Sep 21, 202615 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
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