Great Women in Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine.   Mary has known of Vera Cherepanova for a long time due to her contributions on the FCPABlog but they only just met in person for the first time at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics ECEI in Amsterdam at the conference in March 2023. Mary was delighted to invite Vera to the #GWIC podcast to talk ab...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine.   A #GWIC can be lots of things - which is one of the best parts of this community. Today's guest is a true advocate and supporter of women while also being one of the architects of this profession and one of our best.  It's Joe Murphy, who co-authored the first book ever written on compliance, and is currently...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine.  The Great Women in Compliance podcast has covered speaking up from many angles over the last several years because it’s such an important and perennial topic that Compliance Officers need to keep thinking on to maximize effectiveness.   This week’s unique speak up angle comes from the former Chief of the Offic...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. In today's episode, the Great Women in Compliance podcast delves into training and learning with Maria D’Avanzo, who is the Chief Evangelist Officer for Traliant.  Prior to joining Traliant, Maria was the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for Cushman & Wakefield. Like Lisa, many of y...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. As Lisa and Mary return from seasonal break, they have some big news about the next chapter of the podcast.  Join this episode to hear about Mary’s planned departure from Great Women in Compliance at the 200th episode milestone and the exciting plans that Lisa has in mind to change things up and keep them fresh...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. Today’s guest on the Great Women in Compliance podcast is one of the groundbreaking women in the E&C field, Amii Barnard-Bahn.  Amii is a former Fortune 50 executive, the founder and CEO of Barnard-Bahn Coaching and Consulting, and recently joined Kaplan and Walker as a partner in February 2023.  She is also th...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. It’s fitting that for this International Women’s Day that we feature one of the brightest sparks in the Ethics and Compliance space, Krista Muszak. It can be difficult to change industries in Compliance. Some organizations look for exact industry experience and pigeonhole individuals into one track of practice....

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. In today's episode, Lisa speaks with Tracy Saale, who is Conduct Risk Management, Managing Director and Corporate Responsibility Officer at Charles Schwab.   This is her second career, and while we often hear from attorneys who have gone in-house, or were assigned to compliance, Tracy started out as a prosecuto...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. The Great Women in Compliance podcast’s guest for this week is Julie Bregnard, a Compliance professional who is relatively early into her career and going places fast.  Mary interviews Julie with a special focus on the job search, as Julie has just moved into a new role after five years at her first “real” job....

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. Have you ever wondered about corporate intelligence?  What it means, how it is done, and how it relates to our work in ethics and compliance.  In today's episode, Lisa speaks with Jen Hoar, who is a Managing Director at Forward Risk and Intelligence.  Jen calls herself a "recovering journalist," and reflects on...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. Today’s episode on Trade Compliance, with Ellen Smith, is a celebration of male allyship. Ellen was nominated to be on the Great Women in Compliance podcast by Matt Silverman. It is always a joy for Lisa and Mary to see men supporting women and leveraging off the #GWIC podcast to achieve this goal.  Ellen joins...

If CEOs have Larry Fink's Annual Letter to CEOs, then Lisa has Ellen Hunt's "Hunt Report."  Ellen is Principal Consultant Advisor at Spark Compliance and is well known as a mentor and advocate to many in the E&C community. Ellen has finished her first year as a "Sparkie," and will update us on how that is going and what she is seeing and learning through her work.  For the past few years, Lisa and...

Axiom is a company that outsources legal and compliance professionals to client companies to help them with temporary cover – essentially a placements of secondments.  Kerry works with Axiom and Mary, who has always been curious about Axiom, took the opportunity to find out what this working arrangement is like.  They journey to earlier on in Kerry’s career before Compliance as an employment law p...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley and to the new GWIC year. Many of us, especially women, think about the importance of being nice and kind, but have you thought about the differences between those two concepts? And is it a problem to be nice at work? In this episode, Lisa speaks with Amy Schuh, a partner at Morgan Lewis, talks about the dist...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley and to the new GWIC year. Mary and Lisa are back, and looking forward to another season of interesting discussions with fabulous people where we can learn, talk and build our community.  We are always looking to continue these discussions, so please reach out to us, and don't miss Mary's monthly column on Cor...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. One of the most critical aspects of the role of a Compliance Officer is establishing the reputation of the function as being one which is approachable and reliable.  One of the colleagues Mary has admired the most in being successful in this respect, is Karina Vollmer.  The two worked together at Tata Commun...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. One of the best things about the longevity of the GWIC podcast is that Mary and Lisa get to build some of their own ideas and traditions.  Some are things like "bonus episodes" - a great idea by Mary, the #GWICies, and one of Lisa's, which is to do her last podcast interview of the year with someone who is n...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. One of the things about social media is that it is always changing and always a challenge for us to address in ethics and compliance.  Today, Lisa is speaking with Kortney Nordrum, VP, Regulatory Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe.  Kortney has been a thought leader in this area through many chan...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. This week we feature another life after Compliance story with Sue Scott.  Sue, originally from South Africa and currently residing in the United Kingdom, is a Compliance veteran with 20 years of experience at HSBC. But this episode doesn’t focus on financial services Compliance, instead we hear Sue’s journey...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. We have not done a training episode in a while so this week we invited Harper Wells, Chief Compliance Officer of Learning Pool, to share her insights as a Compliance expert working for a training company. Harper shares what it's like being a CCO within a service provider and then takes us on a journey of the...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. This week we are pleased to feature Joelle Thorne-Peters who is a Compliance Audit expert.  She shares with us her thoughts on what Compliance audit is about, what to look for when hiring audit professionals and commentary on the enjoyable phrase "You don't have to be a clown to audit the circus". She also s...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Today is the second part of a 2-part series that we have been planning for a while, and the timing turned out to be perfect.  Lisa is speaking with an all-star panel of Audrey Harris, Bethany Hengsbach and Dionne Lomax,  Managing Directors from Affiliated Monitors.  Audrey’s area is  Global Anticorruption, C...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Today is the first part of a 2-part series that we have been planning for a while, and the timing turned out to be perfect. Lisa is speaking with an all-star panel of Audrey Harris, Bethany Hengsbach and Dionne Lomax,  Managing Directors from Affiliated Monitors.  Audrey’s area is  Global Anticorruption, Com...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. The 2022 Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Compliance and Ethics Institute took place last week in Phoenix, Arizona.  There was a mix of both in person and virtual attendees with a person presence significantly bolstered compared with the 2021 crowd, the first in person ECI since the pandemic hit. ...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  As Lisa and Mary prepare for the end of 2022 with their fall hiatus, they thought they would mix it up by posting their Ethics Experts episodes.  We've heard from Mary, and now it's Lisa's turn.  In 2021, Lisa finally met Nick Gallo in person at the SCCE conference, and they talk about how they became "conf...