Ethicast

On March 29, 30, and 31, Ethisphere will host the 2026 Global Ethics Summit, held live in Atlanta GA and virtually online. This leading ethics and compliance event brings together leaders from nearly 500 organizations around the world, representing more than 60 industries, as they share innovations, insights, and best practices that help them tackle the real-world E&C challenges that face comp...

You've got questions, and we've got answers! In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, explains when the right time is to let external audit know that a misconduct investigation is underway. Business Ethics Leadership Alliance: https://bela.ethisphere.com/

Kendall Mills - Head of Ethics and Compliance, Americas, for global real estate services company JLL - shares how she uses data to highlight the impact of JLL's ethics and compliance program when meeting with the Board of Directors. This includes building better board presentations, sharing the right KPIs, and crafting a narrative that puts this all together. JLL's Ethics Everywhere Annual Report:...

You've got questions, and we've got answers! In this episode of BELA Asks , Erica Salmon Byrne, Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, offers helpful insight for how E&C leaders can monitor industry gatherings where there is the potential to encounter members of competing companies. #BELA #ethics #compliance #competition Business Ethics Leadership Alliance:  https://bela.ethisphere....

Our guest for this episode is Mark Driedger, CEO of AppLogic Networks, a provider of network observability technology, based in Plano, Texas that over the last year has undergone a substantial organizational transformation. That includes a truly impressive advancement of its ethics and compliance efforts. Which, as Mark explains, play a crucial role in aiding the company’s ongoing transformation,...

You've got questions; we've got answers. In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne addresses best practices in trainings, specifically: what is the appropriate number of modules/assessments per training? Erica covers best practices with a focus on ensuring the learner is understanding the material and understanding the purpose of the training and why it's important for their work. With thos...

In our increasingly interconnected business world, organizational supply chains have become multi-layered supply webs. As a result, the task of managing supply chain due diligence has become more important—and more challenging—than ever. But what if you could use generative AI and large language models to analyze things like program assessment data to accurately extrapolate your total universe of...

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of BELA, answers the question, "How should companies escalate investigations of ethics complaints when they involve an executive or member of senior management?"  From developing your policies and procedures prior to this kind of situation, to discussing practical ways that policy might look, Erica walks through exactly how an organiza...

Baker McKenzie has released their 2026 Global Disputes Forecast , which surveys 600 senior decision makers with responsibility for, or with a key role in, litigation at large organizations. The survey provides a wealth of information on what, why, and how senior leaders are viewing today’s biggest business risks with regards to how they might translate into complex legal disputes, with tariffs, sa...

The Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a community of organizations committed to maturing their E&C programs. One way they do that is through our concierge service, in which they can submit top-of-mind questions for curated answers. In this episode of BELA Asks, Erica Salmon Byrne discusses managing increasing levels in candidate and employment fraud. #ethicsandcompliance #Ethispher...

In today’s nonlinear, accelerated, volatile, and interconnected (NAVI) business environment, organizations are facing unprecedented pressure to keep pace with change. Yet most compliance functions remain underpowered, under-resourced, and unaligned with the evolving risk landscape. As a result, many businesses are struggling to manage rising threats—from AI-enabled cyberattacks to complex third-pa...

Erica Salmon Byrne , Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers another question from the BELA Membership: Who should really be in our champions program? Erica also answers a second question around how to know when your champion, ambassador, or liaison program is really working. BELA is a global ethics & compliance community that provides exclusive access to helpful da...

In this episode, Ethicast host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne discuss the insider trading implications involving a suspiciously timed Polymarket bet on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Are we entering a golden era of insider information? What new risks does access to predictive markets bring to the workplace? How can business respond et...

Investigations are serious business, but what happens after one concludes is just as important as the speak-up that promoted the investigation, and the investigation itself. Jodie Fredericksen (VP of Data & Services, Ethisphere) and Eric Jorgenson (Director, Data & Services, Ethisphere) share post-investigation best practices that get help ensure equitable outcomes and support organization...

Here 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 r...

After a year of CEOs getting caught on kiss cams, facing charges for looting their own company, or fielding tough questions form the DOJ about financial mismanagement, Ethisphere Editor in Chief Bill Coffin looks to what we should really be taking away from all of this leadership churn...and what it means for E&C programs everywhere. RELATED EPISODES E&C Lessons from the First Brands Bankr...

Once an investigation into reports of workplace misconduct is closed, organizations often conduct a root cause analysis (or RCA) on the issue. But is that always the right course of action? Should root cause analysis be conducted for all investigations, or are there certain criteria that should trigger a root cause analysis process? It’s a good question, because there are plenty of obstacles to ov...

In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne returns to the topic of internal investigations and answers a most interesting question from the membership of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA): What strategic role should your substantiation rate play? Stick around for a compelling story Erica shares in which an unsubstantiated claim at one company led to a shocking discovery. To learn...

On a long enough timeline, an inevitable outcome of workplace investigations is disciplinary action. Applying the right level of outcome to an investigation is crucial to a fair and effective ethics and compliance program. It’s something that the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs encourages, but doesn’t necessarily require, which places it in the realm of voluntar...

In BELA Asks, we answer to high-level questions submitted by the members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) - a membership community for ethics and compliance professionals - for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. In this episode, BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains what consequence modeling is, how you can use it to advance your E&C program, and why E&C practitione...

Ethical culture is at the heart of business integrity. It is measurable and can create a virtuous cycle of psychological safety, values-based leadership, and higher financial performance. But it doesn’t always go that way. Every culture, no matter how well-meaning, lives with certain pressures that, if not handled the right way, can foster poor-decision making and foment unethical behavior. In thi...

One of the best benefits of membership in the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is that members can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information.  And while we invite everyone watching and listening to join BELA, we also know that there’s no competition in compliance, which is why the E...

In late September 2025, aftermarket auto parts manufacturer and brand owner First Brands suddenly filed for bankruptcy, which took many in the world of finance (and auto parts) by surprise. But the failure was a long time coming, fueled by a debt-driven acquisition strategy and more importantly, an opaque, asset-based finance system that exists largely outside of regulatory restraint and perhaps e...

One of the highly utilized benefits of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is its concierge service, in which members of the BELA community can submit any question regarding ethics & compliance, and our internal experts will provide an answer, plus helpful resources with more information. Since there is no competition in compliance, we respond thematically to high-level concierge qu...

For most E&C programs, a robust data analytics element is table stakes for running a best-in-class business integrity effort. But as data volumes grow to astounding levels, we must ask ourselves an important question: are we gathering the right kind of data? Case in point: How people feel about a particular issue is one of the most commonly overlooked data sets in employee behavior. And yet, i...