Great Women in Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  For the next two weeks, the GWIC team are presenting a collab with ComplianceLine: GWIC X The Ethics Experts!  Mary and Lisa start their throwback Wednesday sessions by harking all the way back to the early days of COVID19, where Mary’s episode was recorded while she was in the New Zealand coronavirus lockd...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In late 2018, Mary and Lisa began advertising the launch of the Great Women in Compliance podcast, which would air on 6 December 2018. Margarita Derelanko was one of the people who saw the marketing collateral and grew excited about the incoming podcast. She affords Lisa and Mary the opportunity to hear what...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. One of the key components of a compliance program is a risk assessment. However, how to develop the right one for your organization is an art, not a science, as is how to best use the findings and report the results. In this episode, Rebecca Walker, one of the founders of Kaplan & Walker LLP, takes a deep di...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Even if we weren’t in Compliance, the need to hold difficult conversations is part and parcel of participating in life in the human race.  And it’s also true that Compliance Officers sometimes need to deliver bad news or talk people out of ideas they are very attached to.  These responsibilities can lead to...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa speaks with Megan Zwiebel, who is Director of Operations & Delivery at R&G Insights Lab, which is an analytics and behavioral science practice, affiliated with the law firm Ropes & Gray. Megan started her career at a large law firm at a litigator, and used h...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. The Great Women in Compliance team are always pleased to observe progress whenever the library of Compliance offerings grows.  Ola Tucker published a book all about Anti-money laundering in July 2022, called “The Flow of Illicit Funds: A case study approach to anti-money laundering compliance” and Mary spoke...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Eleanor Roosevelt (at least it is attributed to her) said "do something that scares you every day."  There have been a lot of scary things over the past few years, but the idea of leaving your comfort zone is an important one.  Last November, Lisa told Nick Gallo on the Ethics Experts podcast, that she fear...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Deb Barrett is Chief Compliance Officer of Qualcomm.  She shares some insights of what it was like being in a company that has undergone some regulatory scrutiny.  She and Mary Shirley discuss some ways to combat Compliance fatigue – important for any company with a robust Compliance program to consider but...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. A critical topic for any ethics and compliance program is the ability for employees to raise concerns - from the initial speak-up process to the interview to the potential for retaliation: Shannon Walker, the founder, and CEO at WhistleBlower Security, Confidential Ethics Reporting & Case Management Solution...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Today's guest is Sarah Powell. Sarah is the kind of person who makes everyone around her stronger. Her work in ethics and Compliance is directly related to her commitment to social justice and making a positive impact through anti-bribery and anti-corruption work. Lisa can vouch for that as she works with Sa...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Mary met Archana Shastri on her first day of work as Legal and Compliance Counsel at Tata Communications in Singapore in 2010.  The two were peers and became fast friends, bonding quickly as two of the quieter colleagues and, in fact, the only two Compliance colleagues in the Singapore headquarters.  Archana...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this week’s episode of Great Women in Compliance, Mary brings the team back from break with an interview with Mia Reini, a Compliance leader at the Home Depot. Mia tells us about her efforts to bring Home Depot’s Compliance awareness initiatives external to the company as a goal, discusses the difference...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Mary and Lisa end the second GWIC semester with Wendy Badger. Wendy is Global Compliance Counsel at Tennant Company, where she oversees their global ethics and compliance program. She has worked in-house and in law firms, taking her experiences from one space and applying them to others. She is also an autho...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Trigger warning: This episode contains a baby loss story and theme.  The Great Women in Compliance Podcast often covers instances of “doing the right thing”.  We’ve previously done it regarding respect and dignity in the hiring process and today’s episode focuses on empathy and compassion by employers when...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Adam Balfour is known as a "GGIC" - a great guy in compliance, and he is also Vice President and General Counsel for Corporate Compliance and Vice President for Global Risk Management at Bridgestone America. Initially from Scotland, Adam has supported diversity throughout his career, and recognizes the impo...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Alison Taylor is one of Mary’s favorite thought leaders. After last appearing on the show in 2020 with Lisa, we invited Alison back to hear about her latest project, a book you’ll hear about and her latest musings on ESG including challenges for companies and what Alison is predicting about the future of ES...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. It's the 150th episode of the Great Women in Compliance podcast. This is a special episode because Mary and Lisa decided to do a joint episode in the middle of a season. And in honor of the 150th episode, they have brought back the GWICies. This year, they call out some things that resonated with them - the...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Today's episode is a joint episode of the "Great Women in Compliance" and "Great Women in Fraud" podcasts. Lisa speaks with Kelly Paxton, who is a Certified Fraud Examiner, investigator, teacher and a well-known expert on "pink collar crime." Lisa and Kelly discuss what makes a "Great Woman in" Compliance an...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Not too dissimilar from Lisa and Mary, Niina and Anna partner on a project to further knowledge to others in the Ethics and Compliance community.  Their Nordic Business Ethics Initiative is a wonderful contribution to practitioners.  We invite you to hear the story about how they got started and what they p...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Today Lisa speaks with Ann Sultan, Partner and Practice Lead for the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Practice Group at Miller & Chevalier. Ann helps multinational companies build their compliance programs and conduct global investigations to support their anti-corruption, anti-harassment, and anti-discrimination object...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Kristy Grant-Hart was one of the Great Women in Compliance podcast’s inaugural guests, whose episode launched on 6 December 2018. She agreed to be on the show before we had a track record and reputation – we’re grateful to her for supporting us right from the start. We invited Kristy, one of the Compliance...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  One of the interesting things about ethics & compliance as a field is that we look at ethical decision-making and policies and working to be innovative and approachable.  In today's episode Lisa speaks with Hemma Ramrattan Lomax,  Senior Corporate Counsel, Integrity and Compliance at Snap, Inc.   As you may...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  In 2021, Snap Inc. released a new code of conduct with a theme of kindness evangelism. Hear Nicole Diaz, Global Head of Integrity & Compliance Legal talk about how the team worked on putting it together and why they considered it important to have a focus on kindness in a company code of conduct. Nicole als...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  In today's episode, Lisa speaks with one of the "OG GWICs," and one of the first interviewees, Ellen Hunt.  Ellen joined Spark Compliance in 2021, and is always a supporter for women in compliance, and in compliance as a whole.  Today, we follow up on her 2021 podcast, where Lisa and Ellen discussed how the...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Welcome to the Spring Season for the Great Women in Compliance Podcast. Today, we have a first on the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, our first guest host. Our producer, Tom Fox recently interviewed Edye Edens, a Consultant in Human Subject Research Compliance for First Class Solutions, Inc. Tom contacte...