By Adam Turteltaub I live in Los Angeles and was fortunate enough to get through the fires unscathed. Around me, though, were others who were not so fortunate. A cousin and several friends lost everything. After the fires came a cleanup of epic proportions. For Glenn Sweatt , Vice President at ECC, the company charged with remediation at all those burned out lots in Altadena and the Palisades, that’s when the work began. The workforce had to be assembled, contractors brought in, and everyone nee...
Aug 19, 2025•15 min
By Adam Turteltaub Here’s a little nightmare every compliance officer dreads. You leave your current job for an exciting new one, only to find out that you just walked into a position where the compliance efforts are token at best because the organization’s leadership doesn’t take compliance seriously. In this podcast Mary Shirley , Vice President, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, Scion Health, shares what to look for and how to protect yourself if this bad dream becomes your reality. And, ...
Aug 14, 2025•12 min
By Adam Turteltaub There is so much hype and drama when it comes to AI, that it’s good to hear the voice of Mujo Vilasevic , Senior Compliance Officer, Raiffeisen Bank International. Contrary to most, he makes the case that the problem with AI is overdramatization. Despite the fears, it’s not going to take over the world or our jobs, as he sees it. So what should be doing when it comes to AI? Educating ourselves is a very good start. Also, look at AI both, as he describes it, outside in and insi...
Aug 12, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub It’s time to think bigger when it comes to helpline data. Yes, it’s still important to look at traditional metrics such as the number of calls and the substantiation rate. But, there is so much more that can be done. Justin Ross, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Sysco and Carrie Penman , Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at NAVEX will be addressing what you can do with your helpline data during their 2025 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute session “Numbers That ...
Aug 07, 2025•17 min
By Adam Turteltaub I recently learned that at the US Department of Justice’s law library, one of the most common requests the librarians receive is for vintage dictionaries. Why? Because the lawyers often need to find out what the definition of a word was at the time a law was passed. Meanings change over time in the law and in the vernacular. Remember when describing something as “sick” meant that it was bad? Now it’s the opposite. Stacey Parks , Ethics Officer, Enterprise Operations and Intern...
Aug 05, 2025•14 min
By Adam Turteltaub If you’re looking for compliance direction only from the US Department of Justice, you’re missing the wider picture. There is a lot going on in Europe that companies operating in that geography need to be complying with. Dr. Tobias Kruis , Head of Corporate Compliance, Giesecke+Devrient, shares what is going on both in this podcast in his session “Dancing with the Acronyms: Jiving Through LkSG and CSDDDD in the European Compliance Ballroom” at the 2025 SCCE Annual Compliance &...
Jul 31, 2025•16 min
By Adam Turteltaub There’s always a “but” when it comes to AI. It has great potential, but there’s always the risk of bad things happening. In the case of the False Claims Act and healthcare, that’s very much the case. In a recent article for Compliance Today – “ AI and the False Claims Act: Navigating compliance in the age of automation ” — Phoebe Roth and Colton Kopcik of Day Pitney warn that the same “but” applies to medical coding. AI and coding seem to be a match made in heaven. There is en...
Jul 29, 2025•14 min
By Adam Turteltaub As important as gaining access to the board is, using that time properly is even more crucial. Becky Rohr , Chief Compliance Officer and head of Investigations at Ericsson, will be sharing her insights and advice on this topic in her session “Board Reporting, Not Bored Reporting: Presenting to Boards and Other Senior Stakeholders by Using Data and Storytelling” at the 2025 SCCE Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute in Nashville. In this podcast and preview of her session, s...
Jul 24, 2025•12 min
By Adam Turteltaub What you don’t know can hurt you. And what you do know can hurt you. Such is the dilemma of background screening. Companies want to know who they are hiring, but, explains Al Firato, CEO & Founder of HireSafe , some information is off limits. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII prohibit examinations of race, religion, ethnicity and more. In addition, federal and state regulations set limits on what background check firms can look at. That’s not always a bad thing, Al p...
Jul 22, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub Dr. Hemma R. Lomax , Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Ethics and Compliance for DocuSign thinks a lot about leaving a legacy, not just for herself but in general. She’ll be addressing the topic Beyond the Rules: The Future of Compliance is Legacy-Driven Leadership at the SCCE 24th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute , which takes place September 14-17, 2025 in Nashville. She is a strong advocate for thinking beyond quarterly goals and looking to o...
Jul 17, 2025•10 min
By Adam Turteltaub Joint ventures are created to capitalize on a business opportunity, but they come with challenges. Each partner may have a different experience with or attitude towards compliance. They may have distinctly different cultures, and, in the worst case, may each be expecting the other to be watching compliance when, in fact, no one is. Hassan Chaudry , a member of the SCCE & HCCA Board and Chief Compliance Officer of POSCO JV, a General Motors joint venture, recommends several...
Jul 15, 2025•9 min
By Adam Turteltaub Don’t take it personally if it’s taking you forever to find a new compliance job. According to Matt Kelly ( LinkedIn ), Editor and CEO at Radical Compliance , you’re far from alone. It’s not that there aren’t jobs out there, he explains. There is just a hesitancy to hire due to the macro-economic environment. With so much economic instability and unpredictability, organizations are slower to hire. Adding to the challenge is technology. A job posted on LinkedIn can generate hun...
Jul 10, 2025•15 min
By Adam Turteltaub Professors Todd Haugh ( LinkedIn) and Suneal Bedi ( LinkedIn ) of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University recently published a paper: Retheorizing Corporate Compliance . In it they argued strongly that compliance needs to be seen not just as a defense against potential corporate legal liability. It also needs to be recognized as a proactive offensive tool for building market share and competitive advantage. On ...
Jul 08, 2025•13 min
By Adam Turteltaub In November 2024, the Office of Inspector General at Health and Human Services released its Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance . The document is part of an effort to modernize how HHS OIG is communicating to industry and providing information about risks, how to mitigate them and best practices for compliance programs. Jillian Willis ( LinkedIn / Firm Page ) and Melissa Scott ( LinkedIn / Firm Page ) of Nelson Mullins explain that the new g...
Jul 01, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub Professors Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage are skeptical. When they hear that there was a bad apple at the core of a scandal, they are hesitant to accept that explanation. Instead, they argue in this podcast and in their new book, The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals , that the problem is typically much deeper and wider. There are dark patterns, as they call them, that lead to bad behavior. Underlying the patterns are nine building blocks. They explain...
Jun 26, 2025•20 min
By Adam Turteltaub So you’ve got a case of AI fever and want to put the technology to work for your compliance team. What should you do? Jordan Domash , Founder of Rersponsiv , urges you to first take a deep breath and think through the process starting with defining your goals. Interestingly, he shares, the goals can be affected by the solution you choose, whether you go with a solution that is homegrown or out of the box. Either way, once the goal is set, expect an iterative process and regula...
Jun 24, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub On May 12, 2025 the head of the Criminal Division at the US Department of Justice issued a memo to all Criminal Division personnel with the subject: Focus, Fairness and Efficiency in the Fight Against White Collar Crime . To understand what the document means for compliance programs, we spoke with Amy Matsuo , leader for both Regulatory Insights and Compliance Transformation at KPMG. Overall, she sees the document as being good news for compliance programs. It reiterates the i...
Jun 19, 2025•12 min
By Adam Turteltaub Andres Cuevas , Compliance Director LATAM for EmergentCold explains from Chile that for compliance officers to be successful in Latin America they need to stop thinking about Latin America as a whole and start thinking much more about each country and its culture. And, of course, we must be mindful that each company also has a culture of its own. To navigate the differences and build consistency, he advocates for having a strong set of baselines rules that are common across yo...
Jun 17, 2025•13 min
By Adam Turteltaub Mark Diamond wants you to stop thinking of records retention as a chore and start thinking of it as a driver of compliance. In this podcast the President & CEO of Contoural shares that retention schedules have grown in importance with increased requirements for privacy and safeguarding personal data. That, in turn, is having an enormous impact on the risks and costs of ediscovery. Proper retention schedules also have significant impact on employee productivity and collabor...
Jun 12, 2025•15 min
By Adam Turteltaub In a recent issue of Compliance & Ethics Professional ® , Nick Gallo , Chief Servant and Co-CEO of Ethico addressed the control paradox, a situation in which the controls designed to prevent misconduct, actually encourage it. Think of it like the person whose car has so many airbags that they no longer fear an accident and drive quicker. So what’s the solution? He argues it’s creating an environment where we have faith in controls, but not too much, and focus on helping th...
Jun 10, 2025•13 min
By Adam Turteltaub Recently, Gartner released very intriguing research into third party risk. Chris Audet, Vice President and Chief of Research in the Gartner Assurance Practice tell us that they found business has it’s spending all wrong. Too much is invested in due diligence, and not enough time and effort is spent on monitoring. There research found that the business unit knows the risks third parties pose and is seeing it firsthand. When relationship managers were surveyed, 84% had seen chan...
Jun 05, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub Risk assessments are not new in healthcare, and in specific regulatory areas are required. But, that doesn’t mean things aren’t changing. More and more organizations are embracing enterprise risk assessments (ERM) as a way to assess the range of risks that they face, including legal and regulatory concerns. Getting the risk assessment right is particularly challenging for healthcare organizations, explains Robert Stratton , Executive Director – Enterprise Risk and Security; Co...
Jun 03, 2025•10 min
By Adam Turteltaub As if ransomware and phishing attacks weren’t enough to keep us up at night, now AI is enabling a whole new range of cyber threats. Ryan Redman, Product Manager, Marketing and Brett Sommers, Director of GRC Products at Onspring warn that the nature of attacks is evolving. Vishing, in which criminals use technology to imitate the voices of colleagues and organization leaders, is being used to trick people into revealing passwords, share data or send money. Employees need to lea...
May 29, 2025•12 min
By Adam Turteltaub These are fractious times, and it’s often difficult to figure out what to do, what comes next and keep people with divergent views working together. Despite these challenges, Anna Romberg , Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Legal and Compliance for Getinge , doesn’t believe that things are hopeless. In an article she co-authored with Richard Bistrong for Harvard Business Review , they laid out several strategies for successfully navigating the current era. In this podc...
May 27, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub Do you ever wish you were made of rubber, especially nowadays with so much change? Do you wish that you could be flexible enough to handle every new legal regulatory change or every business demand without breaking? It’s not likely to happen, but compliance industry veteran Lisa Beth Lentini Walker believes that we can become more resilient. Resilience, she observes, is a mindset. We can work to become more adaptable and open to change by framing it in the right way. If you lo...
May 22, 2025•14 min
By Adam Turteltaub Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan were all born out of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With large energy deposits of national gas, many global companies and their suppliers are operating within these countries. To better understand the compliance risks there, we spoke with Timur Khasanov-Batirov , a compliance officer with deep and wide roots in the region. While we may think of this area as one region, he warns that there are substantial dif...
May 20, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub It’s not a good time to be a manufacturer of ten-foot poles. That’s because with the growing number of sanctions regimes, there are an increasing number of companies and individuals that businesses shouldn’t touch with a poll of ten feet, or any length for that matter. Rachel Gerstein , who most recently served as Vice President, Global Ethics and Compliance Counsel for Gartner, explains in this podcast that trade sanctions are laws and regulations designed to prevent and puni...
May 15, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub The current fee-for-services model in healthcare has challenges, to say the least. Value-based care, explains, Colleen Gianatasio , Vice President of Compliance, CoventBridge, takes a different approach by asking four questions: What are the needs for both patients and providers? What are the challenges and barriers to meeting them? What technology and other resources are available? How will providers be measured for success, and when will they be reimbursed? In answering thes...
May 13, 2025•9 min
By Adam Turteltaub Recently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025 . In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan , shares some of the key priorities they revealed: Managing technology. This includes wearable devices, AI, telehealth platforms and more. All have great promise, but each comes with significant risk. Privacy and security. Many organizations are struggling with right of access issues, repr...
May 08, 2025•11 min
By Adam Turteltaub How much is your cybersecurity program worth? Traditionally the thinking has kind of been: if we don’t have a breach it’s expensive but valuable, and if we do have one it’s both expensive and worthless. Eric Shoemaker of Genius GRC advocates for a different way to value cybersecurity efforts. Instead of just looking at what it prevents, also look at what it enables: your organization to do business with less friction. A good cybersecurity program give customers the confidence ...
May 06, 2025•14 min
