Susan Divers

Does Your Ethics & Compliance Program Help Employees Behave Ethically?

It may seem like a ridiculous question, but the high-profile scandals that continue to unfold demonstrate the value of asking: does your ethics and compliance program actually influence behavior?

Webcast Replay: How Your Ethics & Compliance Program Can Help Business Leaders Make Better Decisions

Listen to three leading industry executives discuss strategies on how operationalizing their E&C programs directly into the business has positively impacted decision-making at all levels.

3 Resources: How to Operationalize Ethics & Compliance Programs into Business Operations

Here are three resources where organizations can learn how to take the reins and operationalize ethics and compliance training into their own business operations.

Is Your Ethical Culture on Auto-Pilot?

At the ECI’s Annual Impact Conference in Baltimore, LRN led a discussion with two eminent ethics officers on 10 practical ways to operationalize an ethics and compliance (E&C) program. Too many...

How and Why Leaders Should Create Transparent Cultures

This is excerpted from an article originally published by The Anti-Corruption Report on May 2, 2018. Transparency in an organization can be a critical “early-warning system” for compliance...

When the Elephant in the Room Goes on a Rampage: Empowered Misconduct and Its Consequences

It’s always tempting when the latest full-scale ethics scandal unfolds in the media to apply 20-20 hindsight and wonder how it was that the organization’s board, leaders, Legal, HR and other...

Does your Ethics & Compliance Program Impact Business Decisions and Employee Behavior?

In the wake of the numerous and disturbing sexual harassment scandals that spawned the #metoo movement, it’s fair to wonder how effective ethics & compliance programs really are, despite the...

Five Elements of E&C Success in 2018

As we close out 2017 and look to the year ahead, it’s time to reflect on the top issues keeping  E&C professionals up at night. The astonishing headlines notwithstanding, there are lessons learned...

Reject Checklists, Focus on Culture and Behavior – Susan Divers in The Anti-Corruption Report

Organizations with the most effective compliance programs focus on the presence or absence of ethical behaviors to measure program effectiveness rather than on checklists itemizing the number of...

LRN’s Susan Divers in The Wall Street Journal’s Morning Risk Report

Smart companies structure their ethics and compliance programs to get employees to consider the ethical implications of the decisions they make before they make them, explains LRN’s Susan Divers...

Corruption, Farm Yard Animals & Transparency

Jay Newman’s recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal is insightful and deserves attention. The most significant improvement in the global fight against corruption in the past 50 years is...

Policy Simplification: Making Ethics and Compliance Real and Accessible for Everyone