Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub Ahmed Salim wants you to change how you approach change.  An active consultant to the compliance community and Healthcare Compliance & Regulations Adjunct Professor at DePaul University, he is passionate about following a disciplined approach to change management.  Not surprisingly then, he’s the author of a new book from the SCCE & HCCA:  Mastering Compliance Through Ch...

By Adam Turteltaub As with so many other areas, communication, or a lack of it, can be a big problem when it comes to eDiscovery.  Legal doesn’t always adequately communicate what it needs.  The business unit doesn’t share information about all the technologies its teams are using to communicate, and compliance may be giving the wrong message as a result. The cure, as Joey Seeber , CEO of Level Le...

By Adam Turteltaub On July 10, 2025 the European Commission posted The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice .  Unlike the EU AI Act, this new Code of Practice is not compulsory, at least not yet. Still, it seems prudent to start understanding what it says and what expectations are being laid, as well as what the definition of general-purpose AI (GPAI) is.  To that end, we spoke with  London-based J...

By Adam Turteltaub Managing whistleblowers is always a hot topic, and you’ll find it on the agenda at the 2025 SCCE Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute .   To provide a preview of what you will see if you join us in Nashville, we sat down with the speakers for the session “Someone Blew The Whistle: Perspectives from Former Whistleblowers, In-House Compliance, and External Investigators”. The...

By Adam Turteltaub There’s a lot new going on in healthcare enforcement, and, at the same, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed, reports Greg Demske ( LinkedIn ), partner at Goodwin Proctor and, formerly, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General at HHS. While the US Department of Justice has changed its priorities in areas such as anticorruption, if you look at what they and the Office of Inspector Gen...

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,...

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 Heal...

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? ...

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 w...

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...

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: Jivi...

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 t...

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...

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 r...

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 24 th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute , which takes place September 14...

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 & HCC...

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, organization...

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...

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 ( Linke...

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...

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 h...

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...

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...

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 edisc...

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’...