Ethicast

What happens when you stop treating investigations like a black box — and start treating them like a tool for cultural transformation? Scott Sullivan, former Chief Integrity & Compliance Officer at Newmont Corporation, the world's largest gold mining company, did exactly that. The result: a 385% increase in reporting over four years, a radical rethinking of speak-up culture, and a model for ho...

Your AI is moving faster than your governance. That's not a future problem — it's a right-now problem. In this episode, Bill Coffin sits down with Laura Jacobus, EVP of Strategic Advisory Services at Mitratech, to unpack why the AI governance frameworks most companies built 18 months ago are already struggling to keep up — and what AI Governance 2.0 actually looks like in practice. From Board mand...

For a global organization with more than 500,000 team members, ethics and compliance cannot rely on policies alone. It takes leadership, structure, local connection, practical testing, and a culture of continuous improvement. In this episode of Ethicast, host Bill Coffin speaks with Peter Blumberg, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at FedEx, about how FedEx continues to strengthen its co...

Someone set fire to a Kimberly-Clark distribution warehouse in California, caused $600 million in damage, and livestreamed the whole thing. The part that got less attention: he didn't work for Kimberly-Clark. He worked for a third-party logistics company they'd hired. Kimberly-Clark had a supplier code of conduct. They had compliance standards. They'd commissioned third-party audits. And it still...

A Google information security engineer with access to the company's internal search trend data allegedly used that data to place 23 Polymarket bets — and won 22 of them, netting nearly $1 million. His handle was AlphaRaccoon. The CFTC and DOJ aren't laughing. In this episode of Ethicast Reacts, host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon-Byrne break down the charges — commo...

Supply chain risk management is becoming more complex as companies move from linear supply chains to sprawling supply webs that include third, fourth, and fifth parties. At the same time, ethics and compliance teams are under pressure to perform deeper due diligence with limited resources. In this episode of Ethicast, host Bill Coffin speaks with Craig Moss, Executive Vice President of Measurement...

What happens when a company becomes the target of a congressional investigation, and how can ethics, compliance, legal, and government affairs teams prepare before scrutiny arrives? In this episode of The Ethicast, host Bill Coffin speaks with Kimberly Hamm and Carlos Felipe Uriarte, partners at Morrison Foerster and co-chairs of the firm’s Congressional Investigations practice. Drawing on deep ex...

Prediction markets promise a sharper read on the future. But recent stories raise a darker question: what happens when traders are not predicting events, but exploiting confidential information or manipulating the inputs that settle the bet? In this episode, Erica and Bill examine alleged classified-information betting tied to a Venezuela military operation, suspected weather-sensor tampering in P...

Ethics and compliance champions programs can extend the reach of a centralized E&C team, but how do you prove they are working? In this BELA Asks episode of Ethicast, Ethisphere’s Erica Salmon Byrne explains how organizations can evaluate both the overall ROI of an ambassador or champions program and the performance of individual ambassadors. Erica discusses practical data points to track, inc...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-state issue for ethics and compliance teams. It is already reshaping how programs manage training, reporting, risk assessment, monitoring, measurement, and operational decision-making. In this episode of The Ethicast, host Bill Coffin speaks with Roxanne Petraeus, Co-Founder and CEO of Ethena, and Dianne Ramos, Head of Ethics at Guardian Life Insurance...

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. BELA is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, benchmarking, events, and other resour...

Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers another question from the BELA Membership around how to date investigations case volume data. In particular, should case volume be dates when investigations are opened or closed? To learn more about joining the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, visit https://www.ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to...

In the highly regulated world of financial services, running a top-notch ethics and compliance program is table stakes for maintaining one's ability to do business at all. But Principal Financial Group recognizes that this goes deeper than merely abiding by regulatory expectation. By maintaining high ethical standards and reinforcing the understanding of (and adherence to) its Global Code of Condu...

BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne tackles an interesting question from the members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance around how to handle the risks that arise when employees relocate temporarily to an international location - either for professional or private reasons - but must maintain their connectivity to their virtual workplace. To learn more about joining the Business Ethics Leadership...

The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful data, benchmarking, events, and other resources to advance your E&C program.   Each year, BELA honors select member companies and individual ethics and compliance leaders for their extraordinary commitment to advancing community engagement, growth, and transfor...

People managers are the front line for delivering to employees the expectations (and aspirations) of not just the ethics and compliance team, but that of senior management and even the Board. And yet, managers often struggle with these burdens because they just don’t receive the right support...which creates otherwise preventable friction and risk within the organization. In this episode, Ethisphe...

In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne dives into the data surrounding best practices in governance and oversight for Ethics & Compliance. From data surrounding where the function sits, to how the Chief Compliance Officer should interact with the committee and the board, this episode is chock-full of valuable insights stemming from the 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies data set. Wa...

In today's episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of BELA, addresses who should ultimately own an organization's compliance program. The answer is: it depends. Learn more about BELA: https://bela.ethisphere.com/ Ethisphere Resource Center: https://www.ethisphere.com/resources

One of the most pronounced concerns of the 2026 risk landscape so far is that of external investigations that involve multiple jurisdictions. Many businesses operate on an international, multi-national, or global basis. And if they don’t, their third-party suppliers and partners certainly do. At the same time, a worldwide fracturing of regulatory expectations, enforcement paradigms, and legal cont...

In today's episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne answers the question, "We are reviewing our approach to service on external boards, both governing and advisory. In particular, what are circumstances in which we would or would not allow compensation for service on such boards?" Erica addresses best practices on ensuring board service is documented as a conflict of interest, getting permission f...

As businesses face relentless market challenges, technological transformations, leadership misconduct, and geopolitical whiplash, Boards of Directors play a vital role in providing the kind of ethical leadership that will help organizations build value and manage risk. And yet, those same pressures also expose the thin ethical oversight that many Boards provide—mainly because they lack practical w...

As we celebrate our 100th episode of BELA Asks, we're answering *two* questions: How Do I Help My New CEO, and How Do I Reward Speak-Up?" And, we have a special guest appearance, too. Don't miss it!

At this year's Global Ethics Summit , Ethisphere kicks things off with industry roundtables in which you can spend time with your peers discussing best practices, challenges, and successes that specifically pertain to your industry. One of these is Next-Gen Learning: Exploring Emerging Tech Tools to Engage the "Non-Desked" Employee, which will discuss of the challenges of trying to apply exciting...

Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield-licensed health insurance company that services approximately 2 million people in Washington state and Alaska. Premera holds itself to the highest standards of ethical behavior, which is why Ethisphere has recognized the company with the coveted Compliance Leader Verification designation for 2025 through 2027. In this episode, Sven Pete...

In today's episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of BELA, answers the question, "In addition to training and manager policy education, what approaches are companies using to address areas with a significant number of concerns/ employee concerns of a specific type?" For more information, visit ethisphere.com/resources #BELAAsks #Ethisphere #EmployeeEng...