Evaluating your Ethics and Compliance Program for Effectiveness: A Checklist and the Business Case

Why Should You Attend:

The evaluation of an ethics and compliance program for effectiveness is a critical component of understanding whether your program actually has a positive effect on your company in terms of culture and risk management. It is also a critical component of a defensible program should your company be investigated or prosecuted for potential wrongdoing. In both instances – the positive culture and the defensible position – evaluating your ethics and compliance program periodically for effectiveness is not only an increasingly required part of doing business, it will also allow you, your colleagues, your executive leadership and your board to sleep better at night.

This webinar will provide a holistic review and assessment of:

1. the essential ingredients of an effective global ethics and compliance program
2. what tactical steps and substantive issues are of utmost importance in achieving an effective ethics and compliance program
3. what the government’s expectations are with regard to what an effective program means
4. how to test whether your overall program is effective
5. how to maintain and reboot your program for effectiveness

By reviewing the key elements that can make a program effective, this webinar will better equip the attendees with a more comprehensive understanding of the full importance of an effective ethics and compliance program – a real program as opposed to a paper one.

Learning Objectives:

The instructor will share several resources with the participants including:

• Creating an effective ERM program
• Creating an effective global code of conduct
• Integrating your ethics and compliance risks into your overall ERM program
• Cases relevant to creating an effective ethics and compliance program
• The United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission FCPA Resource Guide

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Overview of the key components of an effective ethics and compliance program
• Detailed dive into what makes an ethics and compliance program effective
• Must haves and nice to have’s
• How to perform your own self-evaluation
• The benefits of an independent third party evaluation
• Dealing with the government when and if they come along
• Making the business case for an effective ethics and compliance program and its periodic evaluation

Who will Benefit:

• General Counsels, Chief Legal Officers, Divisional Counsels, Regional Counsels
• Board directors – for profits and non-profits
• Chief Ethics & Compliance Officers and their staff
• Risk Officers and their staff
• Chief Audit Executives and Internal Auditors
• Operational Risk Managers
• Accounting & Finance personnel

Instructor Profile:

Andrea Bonime-Blanc, is founder and CEO of GEC Risk Advisory LLC (www.GECRisk.com), a firm that provides strategic and management consulting services in governance, risk, ethics, compliance and corporate responsibility to boards, executives, investors and advisors. Ms. Bonime-Blanc has almost two decades of executive legal, governance, compliance, risk, internal audit and corporate responsibility experience in global private, public, established and start-up companies in technology, media, infrastructure, utility, manufacturing and professional services. She is expert in anti-bribery/corruption, anti-fraud, compliance structures and programs, information security, ERM, investigations, whistleblower protection, crisis management, CSR, ISO strategy and training and communications.

She was founding chief ethics & compliance officer for Bertelsmann, where she established and launched the global ethics and compliance program for 100,000 employees in 600 businesses in 60 countries. Most recently, she served as SVP, Global Corporate Responsibility & Risk Management for Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT), a “big data” technology company where she was responsible for five global functions: ethics and compliance, internal audit, information security, enterprise risk management and corporate responsibility. Earlier in her career, she was general counsel and head of compliance, external relations, strategic communications and environmental, health & safety for the global division of PSEG (NYSE:PEG), a leading U.S. energy and utility company. She started her career at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP where she specialized in international project finance.

She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Ethical Corporation Magazine where she writes The GlobalEthicist monthly column. She is an independent director member of the NACD and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association. She has written and edited many articles and books and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a Joint J.D. in Law and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

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