On Oct. 23, the FBI indicted more than 30 people within the National Basketball Association for charges related to illegal gambling; namely insider trading-style schemes around so-called "pop bets," that wager not on a game's outcome but on an individual's performance or a specific moment or event within a game. The indictments have been described by the FBI as a major blow against organized crime, and characterize this as a major crisis for the NBA. For those within the ethics and compliance profession, this is a corruption scandal with clear lessons to teach us around subjects such as incentives, pressure, and more. With us in this episode is Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, as she provides her insight on how E&C leaders can take the lessons learned from this scenario and inform best practices within their own business integrity efforts.

In this special Halloween-themed episode of BELA Asks, we discuss something which many E&C leaders might find a little unsettling, if not downright scary: being called upon to justify the E&C function to the Board. With us as always is BELA Chair and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne as she provides her signature insight to high-level questions such as these from the BELA Community. To learn more about BELA, visit ethisphere.com/bela to request guest access to the Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director. If you have a question that you’d like answered on this program, contact the BELA Concierge Service, and we’ll get to work on it for you.

In an increasingly interconnected world where supply chains have become multi-layered supply webs, the task of managing supply chain due diligence has become more important than ever. A key aspect of this is social compliance auditing, the manner in which organizations ensure that their partners and third parties are abiding by human labor law. In this episode, Craig Moss—executive vice president of measurement at Ethisphere, director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute and the Cyber Readiness Institute, and board member of the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors—discusses the vital role that social compliance auditing plays within the larger effort to manage supply chain due diligence. 1:30: Why supply chain due diligence has become such a critical part of enterprise risk management 4:28: Social compliance audits get way more static than they deserve 7:19: How to embed social compliance audits within a risk-based due diligence process 12:13: Connecting social compliance audit data with broader due diligence data Further reading: “Using Social Audits to Refine Supply Chain Due Diligence" at www.dowjones.com Free report - AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage: www.ethisphere.com

Ethics and compliance programs are often stuck in reactive mode, and the way to break out of that is to build a road map for where you see the function heading over the next year, three years, and five years. BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains how you can build a 1-3-5 road map for your E&C team. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

Organizational justice examines whether employees believe the company holds wrongdoers accountable and communicates disciplinary guidelines effectively. When we talk about speakup culture, the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance program, the power of values-based leadership, and the overall health of a culture of ethics, these things often connect directly back to organizational justice. In this episode, Malthe Helt, a Culture Analyst on the Ethisphere Data & Services team, provides his insights on how organizational justice needs to be maintained and why it sometimes feels like the most invisible part of an organization's culture. Why organizational justice is such an interesting, subjective, and compelling pillar of ethical culture How trust—the most important aspect of organizational justice—is difficult and time-consuming to build and easy to break Examples of organizations where misconduct or a breach of trust erodes organizational justice The particular challenges of organizational trust’s truism that the stronger it is and the more it works, the more invisible it becomes Measure & analyze your organization’s culture: www.ethisphere.com/solutions FREE Report - AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage: https://ethisphere.com/resources/ai-in-ethics-compliance-risk-to-manage-tool-to-leverage/

The SEC is using AI to detect suspicious trading patterns with unprecedented power and accuracy. So that begs the question: how can you be using AI to prevent insider traiding within your own organization? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne explains. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Two Workers at Filing Agent to SEC Edgar Get Insider Charges: https://fortune.com/2025/06/28/sec-workers-edgar-system-insider-trading-securities-fraud/ Ethisphere's free AI Report: https://resources.ethisphere.com/story/ai-in-ethics-and-compliance/page/1?hsCtaAttrib=195957177382 Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela  

Today is Global Ethics Day, an event created by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The theme for this year’s Global Ethics Day is “Ethics, Re-Envisioned,” which captures the state of incredible transformation we find our world undergoing, and the significant ethical crises, challenges, and opportunities that present themselves to leaders every day. And few things are changing the landscape in the field of business ethics more than artificial intelligence, which isn't just transforming the everyday realities of E&C teams. It’s prompting leaders to wonder how they can prepare for their own next big moment of organizational transformation; how to reconcile AI’s own ethical concerns with the power it has to advance business integrity, and what "responsible AI" might look like a year or two from now. In this episode, Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer, Erica Salmon Byrne, discusses: How E&C leaders can use the skills they've developed to adapt to AI to prepare for the next AI-level transformation that will suddenly make everything feel upside-down all over again? How to reconcile ethical concerns about AI with the need to use it What “responsible AI” looks like from an E&C perspective Read AI in Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage: www.ethisphere.com  Register for the 2026 Global Ethics Summit: www.attendges.com 

Reductions in force (RIFs) are deeply unsettling for any workplace, often prompting remaining employees to keep a low profile in order to protect their job. Unfortunately, this can also erode their willingness to call out witnessed misconduct. In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how organizations can mitigate the impact RIFs have on speak-up culture. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

More than 85% of employees say that they would report an instance of workplace misconduct if they observed one. However, when the moment of truth arrives, only about half of the people who said they would report actually follow through with it. A big reason why is that for many employees, speaking up about misconduct carries the very real risk of being punished overtly or covertly by their peers and managers for it. In this episode, Ethisphere's VP of Data & Services Jodie Fredericksen and Director, Data & Services Eric Jorgenson discuss how ethics and compliance teams can implement meaningful anti-retaliation protocols that reduce workplace payback, increase speakup rates, and build a stronger culture of integrity. 2:36: Why is workplace retaliation such a persistent problem? 4:30: Are some forms of retaliation worse than others? 6:18: What anti-retaliation measures should every company employ? 10:14: How should companies communicate their anti-retaliation policy? 12:19: What aspects of retaliation continue to shock and astonish? Anti-Retaliation resources: https://ethisphere.com/resource-search/?post_type=resources&s=retaliation&topic=-1&type=-1  

Midterm elections in the U.S. are fast approaching, and E&C leaders who aren't already grappling with the compliance issues of organizational political activity will do so soon. In this episode, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), answers a question sent directly to the show from an audience member: What are the compliance issues of a political action committee? This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

In this episode, we’re going to discuss inherent and residual risk with Craig Moss, executive vice president of measurement at Ethisphere and a director at the Digital Supply Chain Institute and the Cyber Readiness Institute.   Craig is a prolific thought leader, public speaker, and author on the subject of value chain, holistic risk assessment, and AI, and his most recent byline, “Leveraging Residual Risk Data to Go Beyond Reporting,” provides a fascinating look at the connections between inherent and residual business risk, and how strong controls such as compliance, and forward-thinking use of data, can create an advanced sustainability paradigm for any enterprise.   LINKS “Leveraging Residual Risk Data to Go Beyond Reporting” https://article.dowjones.com/djriskjo... AI I Ethics & Compliance: Risk to Manage, Tool to Leverage https://resources.ethisphere.com/stor... Avoidable AI Mistakes: A GC/CECO Playbook (10/2, 1:00 pm ET)

The World Stone Skimming Championship was rocked by cheating this September, but speak-up culture and organizational justice saved the day. Erica Salmon Byrne skips no details as she shares how E&C leaders can use stories like these to foster employee conversations around ethics and integrity. For plenty of free ethics and compliance resources on conflicts of interest, speak up culture, values-based leadership, and much, much more, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources

In this episode, Laura Jacobus, a Strategic Advisor with global technology organization Mitratech, discusses how E&C leaders can build huge value for their programs by developing the right tools and skills to deliver high-value, strategic insights to their Boards at a time when Boards themselves are looking to E&C to help manage risk and enable sustainable enterprise growth. 2:07: Why Boards are asking more of their E&C partners lately 6:13: How E&C leaders can use data to drive Board-level strategy 11:11: How the right tools can help develop the right E&C skills 14:04: How "learning the business" helps E&C build trust with the Board ABOUT MITRATECH: Mitratech is a global technology organization that aids corporate legal, risk & compliance, and HR professionals in enhancing productivity, controlling expenses, and mitigating risk. To learn more about what how Laura and her colleagues can help connect and empower your organization’s core departments via fully automated compliance technology, AI-driven analytics, and seamless integrations, visit www.mitratech.com. Ethisphere Resource Center: www.ethisphere.com/resources Appear on the Ethicast: www.ethisphere.com/ethicast

In this episode of the Ethicast, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how you improve and expand your quarterly reporting to the Audit Committee...and thereby build stronger relations between the ethics and compliance function and the Board. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

In this episode, Charles Cain, Forensic & Integrity Services managing director at Ernst & Young LLP, discusses the risks that organizations run when they fail to take their speak-up reporting seriously. Sometimes, companies either can’t—or won’t—take proper action on reports of misconduct that have been surfaced, and when that happens, the culture's sense of organizational justice suffers. Once that corrosive effect takes root within a culture it can be very, very difficult to address it before some truly unfortunate things happen. 1:52: The damage done to businesses when speak-up programs falter 2:46: Where companies drop the ball on receiving and investigating reports of misconduct 3:42: How botched speak-up corrodes organizational trust 4:57: Recommendations for how organizations can address a weak or malfunctioning speak-up program 6:34: When speak-up systems work in public

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how you can socialize your ethics and compliance program with employees who might be out of reach of easy communications channels like e-mail or instant messaging because they're on a factory floor, traveling in areas where that connectivity is unavailable, etc. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela #ethics #compliance #communications #nonwired

Around 85% of people say they would report misconduct at work if they witnessed it, but when the moment of truth arrives, less than half actually do so. A big reason why is because people just don't trust their speak-up programs to work as they intend to do. In this episode, Gary Burke, Partner, Global Integrity & Compliance Leader, Forensic & Integrity Services, at EY, discusses how you can strengthen your company’s speak up program through solid training and trust-building. 1:42: Where trust in speak-up programs breaks down in organizations 4:56: How to extend trust-building throughout the organization 9:10: Recommended training to improve overall speak-up efforts Register now for our free webinar on September 24 - Building Trust & Accountability: Taking Speak-Up Seriously - featuring Gary and his colleague, Charles Cain, Managing Director, Forensic & Integrity Services at EY. Gary and Charles will explore best practices around how organizations respond to employee reports of misconduct and the risks associated with failing to act when employees speak up. To register: https://ethisphere.com/webinars.

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chef Strategy Officer of Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), discusses how ethics and compliance leaders can lead the charge on revisiting their organization's core values - a task that sets the foundation for ethical culture, robust compliance practices, and strong business integrity. This episode stems from the BELA concierge service, in which our internal experts will answer any E&C question a BELA member poses. And since there is no competition in compliance, we respond to anonymized, high-level concierge questions here for the benefit of E&C teams everywhere. Want to join BELA? Here's how: www.ethisphere.com/bela

In this episode of Ethicast Reacts, host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy officer Erica Salmon Byrne discuss the E&C implications of Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe's abrupt dismissal over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct report.

On September 1, 2025, the failure to prevent fraud offense under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act will go into effect. This means that an organization can be held criminally liable if any employee, agent, subsidiary, or other associated person or entity commits a fraud intending to benefit the organization or its clients, if the organization did not have reasonable fraud prevention procedures in place.  On today's episode of Ethicast Reacts, Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer at Ethisphere will guide us through the Failure to Prevent Fraud Act and what companies need to consider as they prepare for the act to go into effect on September 1.  To read the guidance that Erica refrenced, click here: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud For more on the SFO, see a former Ethicast: Ethicast Reacts: New UK SFO Self-Reporting Guidance  More resources can be found at www.ethisphere.com/resources  Reach out to your Engagement Director or info@ethisphere.com for Sphere data, risk assessment resources, and more!