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In this episode, Transparency Champion, former SEC lawyer, and RealTransparentDisclosure.com Editor Broc Romanek shares some of the best practices in corporate transparency that are highlighted by the annual Transparency Awards, which rank the S&P 250's quality in disclosure and information-sharing across a range of categories, including ESG Reports, Form 10-K, proxy statements, investor relations websites, codes of conduct, and more.
To learn more about the Transparency Awards, as well as to view a full list of 2023’s winners, please visit www.transparencyawards.com. For the 2024 awards criteria, visit www.transparencyawards.com/2024-criteria.
To learn more about ESG, Codes of Conduct, and corporate governance, please visit the Ethisphere Resource Center at www.ethisphere.com/resources. 

Your company probably thinks it has a great culture, but how do you know for sure? Gathering specific metrics help organizations better understand where their cultural strengths and opportunities for improvement lie. Curtis Leicht, Senior Data Analyst at Ethisphere, shares ways in which organizations can make their business integrity efforts more achievable, repeatable, and reportable through formal assessment and measurement.

The business case for measuring culture
Using messaging and comms to socialize assessment findings
Getting managers the training they need to boost culture
Examples of best outcomes for culture measurement

Ethisphere Resource Center: https://ethisphere.com/resources
2023 Culture Report: https://ethisphere.com/2023-culture-report/
Eight Pillars of an Ethical Culture: https://ethisphere.com/the-eight-pillars-of-an-ethical-culture/
Ethisphere Culture team: https://ethisphere.com/solutions

What do dogs and cats have to do with what it takes to build and maintain a culture of integrity at your organization? Only everything. Ethisphere Editor in Chief and Ethicast co-host Bill Coffin provides a whimsical but truthful example of how culture really can (and should) be measured and analyzed.

Great compliance training results are table stakes for creating a best-in-class ethics and compliance program. Harper Wells, Chief Compliance Officer for Learning Pool—a technology company that helps global organizations solve their biggest employee performance challenges—discusses four ways in which organizations can improve their compliance training outcomes.

Common challenges & opportunities
Learning approaches to retire
Progressive & effective training techniques
Data analytics

To learn more about how Learning Pool can help transform your compliance training efforts, please visit learningpool.com, and be sure to look for their latest white paper, Target, Tailor, and Humanize Compliance Training Using Adaptive Learning Principles.

Last March, the Department of Justice issued its updated Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs document, which aims to assist prosecutors in making informed decisions as to whether, and to what extent, a company’s compliance program was effective at the time when it committed some kind of punishable offence. We all know that crime doesn’t pay, but it helps if your company makes sure of it by incorporating compliance best practices into how it rewards its top performers. performance evaluations. To that end, Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, answers the burning question: How do I factor compliance into performance evaluations?

1:08 How do I factor compliance into performance evaluations?
2:51 Linking compliance to executive compensation
5:33 Uneven language from the DOJ
8:24 The effectiveness of clawbacks
10:55 Considerations for the 2024 proxy season

Full text of the March 2023 update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs: justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/compliance

In a world of weaponized transparency, public square accountability, and a swiftly evolving intersection between money and morality, educator and advisor Alison Taylor offers her insights on how are businesses supposed to chart the best course forward as ethical organizations in her new book, Higher Ground: How Business Can do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World.

1:34: Why we should seek ethical Higher Ground
4:09: Examples of agile ethics in action
6:22: Building long-term ethical culture in a time of hyperculture
8:51: How can companies defend against ESG backlash?
11:49: Aligning internal and external ethics expectations
13:53: Should companies have a Chief Purpose Officer?

Higher Ground is available now from Harvard Business Review press wherever fine business books are sold. Be sure to pick up your copy today. And to stay up to date on Alison’s latest podcasts, articles, and more, visit alisontaylor.co.