Dear CCOs: What Is Your Mandate??
Donna Boehme – Corporate Compliance Insights – June 5, 2018 One of the most important features of any compliance program is its written Mandate. The correctly scoped mandate, approved by the Board and understood by senior…
Investigating judicial misconduct? Oh, never mind!
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – June 2018 Here is the situation you confront. Allegations of misconduct are made about a senior official. The allegations go back to conduct over the course of…
We’re supposed to “monitor”? What does that mean?
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – May 2018 As part of another recent project, the question came up, “What does it mean to do monitoring in a compliance program?” Under the Sentencing Guidelines,…
The CECO and the fight against harassment
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – April 2018 In a recent article on 2017 developments, Rebecca Walker discussed the increased focus by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the role of the…
Evaluating your program: A misunderstood key to compliance program success
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – March 2018 In 2004, the U.S. Sentencing Commission amended the compliance program standards to make one of its most important improvements: It required companies to “evaluate periodically…
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Donna Boehme Named 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree as a Top Thought Leader in Trust!
Compliance Strategists is please to announce that Donna Boehme received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from Trust Across America. Every year, Trust Across America awards honors to those individuals whose work helps to elevate societal trust, across a wide range of industries and professions. The…
Blog Articles
Does Sexual Harassment Training Work?
Donna Boehme – March 6, 2018 An alarming number of companies have convinced themselves that the answer to sexual harassment is training.…
Dear #EthiTweeps: Am I Still Going to Las Vegas #SCCEcei? Heck Yeah! #ROWRR!
Dear #EthiTweeps: Thank you to all who wrote to me…
Hmmm… “Chief Integrity Officer” – What’s in a Title?
by Donna Boehme Oh my. A “Chief Integrity Officer.” When…
CCO Rule #2a – Sometimes Even A Great Plan Needs a Tweak
Donna Boehme Once, in one of my CCO roles, we…
In the Media
Listed: Worst Reputational Crises Of 2017 (Boehme quoted)
Tony Chapelle – Agenda Week – February 2018 The bombshell news two weeks ago that Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn…
Gee, I wonder why antitrust compliance programs aren’t better?
Joseph Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – February 2018…
Survey Highlights Compliance Dangers (Murphy quoted)
Henry Cutter – The Wall Street Journal – January 23,…
NLRB Memo Brings Questions to Codes of Conduct (Murphy Quoted)
Joe Murphy – The Wall Street Journal – January 9,…
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Donna Boehme awarded the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics 2014 International Compliance and Ethics Award
The SCCE has honored people and organizations that recognize the value of, have made significant contributions to, and champion compliance and ethics in business. This year, Donna Boehme, with 20+ years experience designing and managing compliance and ethics solutions, was honored for her tireless dedication and…
What a shock! Policies and mandatory training don’t prevent harassment!
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – January 2018 It’s big news in the employment field: According to some studies, having a policy and mandatory training doesn’t prevent harassment. So when California mandates two hours of training every two years, harassment doesn’t disappear? Having…
Contractors and Compliance
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – December 2017 An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the growing role of contract employees in companies. While exact figures are uncertain, the percentages have increased, and the article says there may be as…
When do they need training?
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – October 2017 One question that sometimes comes up, especially regarding new employees or those who are newly promoted, is when do they need to be trained? How long can someone be a new employee or in a…
Testing as a form of measurement
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – August 2017 Practitioners today know that they need to measure and assess their compliance programs. Often, though, they seem to go inexorably to surveys as the tool for doing this. I like surveys and have used them, but…
Compliance programs: What went wrong?
Joe Murphy – Compliance & Ethics Professional – July 2017 Every day, it seems, we read about another major company facing criminal charges or committing other types of improper actions. We hear about large fines, maybe individual managers being charged, and, perhaps, a tough compliance…
