Posts Tagged ‘compliance officers’
From CCO Alone to Proving Value
My previous post in Radical Compliance explored the isolation that chief compliance officers so often feel in their jobs, how isolation is not the independence that compliance officers do need, and why isolation can be so corrosive to corporate success. The response to that first column — from compliance officers, risk leaders, attorneys, and executives…
Read MoreLaunching: The CCO Retaliation Survey
One of the top concerns for corporate compliance professionals has always been to protect employees from retaliation for speaking up about corporate misconduct. Today Radical Compliance wants to flip that script by looking at something that, honestly, I’m astonished nobody has examined before: how often compliance officers themselves suffer retaliation for speaking up. We are…
Read MoreYes, the Compliance Officer Stands Alone
If you’re a compliance officer or have ever been one, there’s a good chance you have felt it: that particular friction. The sense that while you might be operating in the same organization as your C-suite peers, attending the same meetings, carrying the same title weight on paper — you somehow occupy a fundamentally different…
Read MoreOn ‘Upskilling’ Your Compliance Team
One crucial element of success for a compliance officer that we don’t discuss often enough is how you can develop the skills of the rest of your compliance team. So when I had the privilege of moderating a webinar on that subject the other week, I took lots of notes. I pass them along now…
Read More‘Failure to Escalate’ and Career Risks
We’ve had a few posts lately about compliance officers who suffer retaliation for raising misconduct issues to senior management. Today we flip the script, and wonder about the career harms that can befall compliance officers who don’t raise issues high enough up the command chain. This is on my mind thanks to a jarring story…
Read MoreCCOs, Still Suffering Retaliation
I had another one of those unfortunate conversations the other day: talking with a compliance officer who had tried to do the right thing at their organization, and suffered retaliation for it. With that person‘s permission, I wanted to relay a few thoughts about how compliance officers can anticipate these ordeals. First, why was I…
Read MoreWhere Compliance Goes From Here
Last week I attended a forum here in Boston talking about the future of the corporate compliance profession. The conversation meandered across numerous issues, but one unspoken question was never far from people’s minds: Should compliance officers be worried that some day soon, your role will become obsolete? My answer is no — or at…
Read MoreUndermining the CCO, Part II
Earlier this month we had a popular post on ways that senior management might undermine the chief compliance officer’s power and authority. The post sparked quite a bit of feedback, so today let’s share more stories of management undermining the CCO — and ways the CCO could try to push back. The original post identified…
Read MoreWhen Managers Undermine the CCO
Compliance officers often like to talk about how senior management can demonstrate support for a strong compliance program. Today I’d like to flip the script and ask an even more urgent question: What are all the ways that senior management can undermine a chief compliance officer? This is on my mind after (yet another) conversation…
Read MoreTracking Local Compliance Associations
Radical Compliance strives to be a community resource for compliance professionals everywhere, so today we are looking at local groups of compliance officers who get together for networking. Are you part of a group that should be on this list? We have had a running list of local compliance associations for several years, although the…
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