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S4E8 | Around the World: Nokia’s Darja Galante on Promoting E&C Across the Globe

Darja Galante of Nokia speaks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about how regional differences impact the way ethics and compliance programs can operate effectively; how COVID-19 has changed the nature of investigations; and why diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to a company’s success.

 

“It was possible to at least partially replace this face-to-face atmosphere with this video connection, but it’s way more challenging to not being able to read the facial expressions, the mimics, and the rest of the non-verbal communication that is usually very helpful during our interviews.”

- Darja Galante

 

Darja Galante is Nokia’s senior business integrity manager and regional investigations lead in its Munich office. Previously, she led a global ethics and compliance function for a major NASDAQ-listed medical device company based in the Asia-Pacific region, and where she had a strong focus on third-party risk management, data privacy, and localization of global processes.

 

Galante’s experience includes providing anti-corruption compliance counseling and program management; local content counselling; developing and delivering compliance training to employees and third-party partners; conducting intermediary and transactional due diligence; conducting complex risk assessments; and overseeing corporate investigations.

 

She has a degree in business administration and management, a certificate in corporate law, and can speak seven languages.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:36] What sparked Galante’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role at Nokia?

 

[4:09] How has the experience of working all over the world shaped the way that Galante views ethics and compliance?

 

[6:56] What is the role of a business integrity manager and how has Covid changed that part of Galante’s job?

 

[8:26] Are there advantages to doing investigations that don’t involve sitting in front of someone?

 

[9:34] Is there an uptick of reporting in the pandemic? Why or why not?

 

[11:03] How are Nokia’s diversity and inclusion programs involving?

 

[13:39] What measurements help determine the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion programs?

 

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S4E7 | Staying Engaged During COVID: Parsons Corp.’s Kim Urbanchuk Pivots E&C Program While Emphasizing Ethics, Values

Kim Urbanchuk, chief ethics and compliance counsel for engineering firm Parsons Corp., talks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about how she seemed destined to a career in ethics and compliance, how COVID-19 is changing how she manages her program, and what role E&C programs can play in being champions for racial equality.

 

“It owes to our continuous engagement with employees. Out top-line management, our executive management, our first-line managers, are in constant communications with their teams. And as teams are working remotely, it’s even more important to keep that level of engagement.”

- Kim Urbanchuk

 

 

Kim Urbanchuk specializes in ethics, compliance, oversight, investigations, governance, due diligence, anti-corruption, data privacy, FCPA, lobbying restrictions, PAC and political law. She joined Parsons Corp. in July 2018 as chief ethics and compliance counsel from Airbus, North America, where she provided operational leadership and strategic direction to develop, sustain, and enhance the North American regional ethics and anti-corruption compliance program.

 

Before that, she worked on oversight and investigations for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at the U.S. House of Representatives, after having been appointed by the U.S. director of transportation to revise thee ethics, procurement, travel, personnel, and governance polices for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. She started her career as an assistant attorney in Portsmouth, Va.

 

Urbanchuk is a graduate of the William & Mary-Marshall Wythe Law School, and also has a degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

[1:14] What sparked Urbanchuk’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role at Parsons Corp.?

 

[4:42] How has the Covid crisis impacted the way that Urbanchuk views and facilitates her work responsibilities?

 

[9:23] As companies begin to reopen their offices what are Urbanchuk’s concerns from an ethics and compliance perspective?

 

[12:15] What is Parsons Corp. doing to increase buy-in for their re-opening strategy?

 

[9:34] Is there an uptick of reporting in the pandemic? Why or why not?

 

[14:19] How can the ethics and compliance community play a leading role in the ongoing discussions on racial equality and justice?

 

[16:31] What does corporate America need to do to address these issues of inequality and what are the right ways to measure progress?

 

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S4E6 | Ethics on a Mission: HP’s Terry Stringer Keeps the Focus on Integrity, Values

Terry Stringer, head of ethics at HP, speaks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about the mission work she does in Africa with her husband, what it’s like to be a Black female executive in 2020, and how she is adapting her ethics initiatives to account for COVID-19.

 

“I’ve always been very self-confident, so those types of, we’ll call them micro-aggressions, that I might have experienced, I could just slough them off...Where it gets harder is if that individual has some sort of control over your pay, or your ability to be promoted.”

- Terry Stringer

 

Terry Stringer has been called “the Ethics Whisperer” for her work in enabling leaders and organizations foster cultures of integrity. She has worked in ethics and compliance and HR for over 15 years in the energy industry, and as founder of a consulting firm and now is with HP, where she heads the company’s ethics office and the Center of Excellence. HP was named for the first time in 2020 as one of the world’s most ethical companies by Ethisphere Institute.

 

In addition to her work in E&C, Terry is passionate about developing a pipeline of STEM-educated talent in minority and under-served communities and has worked with several organizations to help prepare today’s youth for the jobs of the future.

 

She is married to Bishop Martin Stringer, and together they conduct mission trips to African countries including Zimbabwe, Liberia, South Africa and Zambia. She is the mother of three children and a chocolate Labrador-mix named Jackie Robinson.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[2:04] What kind of work have Springer and her husband done in Africa and what are they currently doing?

 

[3:12] What sparked Springer’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role at HP?

 

[5:36] As a black woman, what experiences are informing the way that Springer engages with the social justice issues of today?

 

[10:40] How has Covid-19 impacted HP’s operations and how is Springer planning the return of employees to their offices?

 

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S4E5 | Risky Business: Stephen H. Weinstein of Renaissance Re Hunts for Opportunities Amid Life’s Perils

LRN’s Ben DiPietro speaks with Stephen H. Weinstein, senior vice president, chief compliance officer, group corporate counsel, and corporate secretary of reinsurance company Renaissance Re, about the risks associated with climate change, the importance of accurate data when assessing risks, and how he handles his dual roles of chief legal officer and head of compliance.

 

“All firms should recognize the importance of climate as a means of engagement with stakeholders, including their staff. It’s no accident that “E” is part of ESG.”

- Stephen H. Weinstein

 

Stephen H. Weinstein serves as RenaissanceRe’s chief legal officer, with responsibility for legal, regulatory, government affairs and compliance matters on a global basis. Weinstein has served as RenaissanceRe’s group general counsel and corporate secretary since joining the company in 2002, as chief compliance officer since 2004, and as senior vice president since 2005.

 

Prior to joining RenaissanceRe, Weinstein specialized in corporate law as an attorney at law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He is a frequent speaker on legal and regulatory matters, serves on the boards of several industry groups and is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:32] What sparked Weinstein’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has his career path led to his current role?

 

[6:25] What are some of challenges associated with gathering data for risk assessments?

 

[9:38] How does Weinstein navigate the conflicts between legal and ethics and compliance in his company?

 

[11:42] What are some lessons Renaissance Re has learned from the Covid-19 pandemic?

 

[13:42] What steps are Renaissance Re taking as they look to allow employees to return to work?

 

[15:20] What are the ethical considerations for offices reopening and employees coming bask to work?

 

[16:39] What is Renaissance Re working on to improve its diversity and inclusion efforts?

 

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S4E4 | Critical Moment of Truth for Trust: Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc on Race, COVID, Ethics

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc, compliance executive, board member, entrepreneur, and author, discusses with LRN’s Ben DiPietro the risks and opportunities companies face as they address issues of racial injustice, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"We have businesses that are having to decide between the health and safety of their workers, or the well-being, quote unquote, of their shareholders, to keep the business running. This, I think, is almost unprecedented in terms of its massive scale.”

- Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc

 

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc is CEO and founder of GEC Risk Advisory, and is a global governance, risk, ESG, ethics, cyber, and crisis strategist who works with a broad cross-section of business, nonprofits, and government agencies. Since 2017, she has served as the independent ethics advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.

 

Dr. Bonime-Blanc spent two decades as a C-suite global corporate executive at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG, overseeing legal; governance; risk; ethics; corporate responsibility; crisis management; compliance; audit; information security; and environmental health and safety, among other functions. She began her career as an international corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb.

 

She is an extensively published author of many articles and several books, including her latest, “Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value,” which earlier this year debuted as an Amazon No. 1 Hot Release in business ethics and game theory.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:34] What sparked Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role?

 

[4:28] What should companies do in order to turn their words about social justice into action?

 

[6:33] How should companies work with police departments to bring about the change they would like to see?

 

[8:14] What are some of the lessons learned that Dr. Bonime-Blanc is seeing in the organization she is working with?

 

[10:27] What are some things that Dr. Bonime-Blanc recommends that businesses to to keep their employees safe during the pandemic?

 

[12:01] What do companies do to navigate the privacy issues that come from monitoring their employees for Covid?

 

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S4E3 | Great Petri Dish: Panasonic North America’s Louis Sapirman on How Corporate America Can Drive Societal Change

This episode features Louis Sapirman, chief ethics and compliance officer at Panasonic North America, who talks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about the need for empathy by companies during the pandemic, the ways companies can help address racial injustice, and what it means to be the white parent of an adopted Black teen-aged son in 2020 America.

 

“Corporate America is a great Petri dish for building the type of society that we actually want externally. I would challenge all companies to take the time, not just to talk, not just to communicate...but to take the time to look within themselves and say what can we do to strengthen our own cultures...so that it reflects the way we want society as a whole to be.”

- Louis Sapirman

 

Louis A. Sapirman is the chief ethics and compliance officer and chief compliance counsel for Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. He oversees the company’s regulatory and compliance function, maintaining a culture of ethics, and ensuring all employees are upholding Panasonic's values in their work.

 

Sapirman previously served as associate general counsel and chief compliance officer for the Dun & Bradstreet Corp. During his tenure, the company was recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Prior to moving in-house, Louis worked in private practice with several law firms, including Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, and Buchanan Ingersoll.

 

He earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the State University of New York-College at Geneseo, and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, N.J. Outside of work, Sapirman is an avid volunteer, including his work with the Giving Network, and as a former member of the Board of Trustees of Rutgers University.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:06] What sparked Sapirman’s interest in ethics and compliance and how has his career path led him to his current role?

 

[3:43] What are some of Panasonic’s core values?

 

[4:41] What were Sapirman’s goals after joining the company and how has Covid affected their progress?

 

[6:50] What are some of Sapirman’s concerns from a ethics and compliance perspective as it relates to reopening post-Covid?

 

[8:23] How can employers handle employees who are reluctant to return to in-office work?

 

[13:38] How has Sapirman’s experience with his own son shaped how he views the current climate?

 

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S4E2 | The Virus That Changed Everything: Alison Taylor of Ethical Systems on What COVID-19 Means for the World

LRN’s Ben DiPietro talks with Ethical Systems Executive Director Alison Taylor about how COVID-19 is changing the world; what it means for ethics, compliance, ESG, and corporate activism; and how prescient her husband Peter Christian Hall was when he was years ahead of reality when he wrote a book about a pandemic and New York City.

 

“It’s not so easy to do benchmarking, and look at what your peers are doing, and then just copy that. We would argue that you really need to experiment, we really need to come up with something bigger and better, and that academics have many great ideas that can be applied and used by companies with the right mindset and creativity.”

- Alison Taylor

 

Alison Taylor is executive director at Ethical Systems, a research collaboration on ethical culture, housed in New York University's Stern School of Business. Previously, Alison led BSR’s sustainability practice, and oversaw the supply chain practice and the Sustainable Futures Lab.

She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.

 

Taylor has worked as a senior managing director at Control Risks, and for Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture.

 

She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She is an adjunct professor at Stern School of Business.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

[1:33] How did Alison become interested in risk ethics and culture?

 

[3:24] What prompted Alison’s move to become the executive director at Ethical Systems and what are her goals there?

 

[5:08] What impact is the Covid-19 crisis having on Alison’s company and her transition to executive director?

 

[6:36] What are the biggest changes that will come from the Covid-19 crisis?

 

[12:27] Will the current culture lead organizations to be better corporate citizens, or is it going to lead to a culture of survivalism?

 

[16:15] How has Alison’s husband’s book (American Fever) affected the way they are living through Covid-19.

 

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S4E1 | Calling All Cars: The Hetty Group’s Florence Chung Builds Bridges Between Police, Business, Communities

“The question is going to be how police departments carry out these reforms. Corporations and businesses can offer a lot of unique expertise to help the policing profession with the how. We can take what corporations are doing well right now...and transfer these skills from the business world to the policing world.”

- Florence Chung

Florence Chung, chief engagement officer of The Hetty Groups, speaks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about her work to encourage dialogue between police departments, companies, and communities.

She talks about the seven root causes of police misconduct, why good police remain loyal to those who break the rules, and what companies can teach police about management to help them bring about the necessary changes to their cultures and policies.

Florence Chung is the chief engagement officer of The Hetty Group, a community engagement strategy firm. She has 20 years of experience at the intersection of law enforcement and the community, and has created multiple cross-sector partnership and engagement initiatives for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Ross Dress for Less, and Target.

She has launched three new police foundations in partnership with business leaders and police departments to create platforms for community engagement in public safety. This work led her to create Police Foundation Partners, a Hetty Group initiative that provides support and resources to a national network of police foundations to help them become the most effective bridge between communities and police for enhanced public safety.

She’s served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Foundation, New York City Police Foundation, Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers and the University of Southern California’s Asian American Alumni Association. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California.

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

[1:55] What has her career path looked like and how has she found herself at The Hetty Groups?

[3:45] What are the seven root causes that effect policing and how do they frame the debate over police in the U.S.?

[7:50] If there are so many good police officers, why do they remain silent when it only serves to put them at risk more?

[10:36] How does current police culture halt reform and what actions can police departments take to enforce reform?

[12:22] How does having access to military equipment exacerbate the problems with police culture?

[14:30] Can the Camden, N.J. police reform be used as a model for police reform across the U.S.?

[17:24] What role can businesses and institutions play in joining the dialogue that’s going to be needed to create change?

[20:16] What are some skills companies can share with police departments?

[23:48] How did a conversation with Millennials and Gen Z unfold, and how does she view the voice of youth in this dialogue?

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S3E14 | Going Viral: Roche Pharma Brazil’s Patrick Eckert Focuses on Values to Guide COVID-19 Response

“It’s about the values we actually pursue at Roche, which are courage, integrity, and passion. For those three values, which are worldwide and well-known within the Roche environment, they actually give us the North Star on not only how people should actually behave, and how much openness we give to them.”

- Patrick Eckert

Patrick Eckert, who leads Roche Pharma’s operations in Brazil as their general manager, talks to LRN’s Ben DiPietro about what the company is doing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, how it handled the transition of getting workers able to conduct business from their homes, and how it is working with its competitors to find ways to help people.

Patrick Eckert is general manager of Roche Pharma Brazil, where he has worked since February 2017. In September 2018, he was appointed as the Brazilian Enabler Team Lead, responsible for the management of the pharma company’s Brazil business.

He has a clear focus on results while leading the challenges and managing/developing opportunities for access to our innovation supported by a large team of professionals.

Eckert has a bachelor degree in administration by Business School Lausanne in Switzerland, where he is from, and has lived in many different countries. He enjoys very much the diversity of cultures and people. Eckert is married with three children; in his free time he likes to cook, travel, and play tennis.

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

[0:54] What has Patrick’s career path looked like and how did he wind up leading Roche Brazil operations?

[2:16] As the company’s leading executive, how important does Patrick see ethics and strong engaged inclusive and transparent cultures in creating the foundation for financial success?

[4:29] How often does Patrick communicate messages of ethical behavior, messages of assuring people it’s safe to speak up and raise concerns, and messages that endorse transparency and accountability?

[6:29] In relation to COVID-19, what is the company’s plan of action going forward now as it pertains to employees, to customers, and to helping the government and public health agencies. How is Patrick working with hospitals and healthcare providers, and how much collaboration is there in the industry with companies that are usually Roche Pharma’s competitors?

[10:50] How much of Roche Pharma’s workforce worked mobile before COVID-19, what percentage is working mobile now, and what have been some of the challenges that Patrick has had to deal with to get everyone on board?

[13:23] How much effort is being put into preparing for a return to the workplace versus dealing with the immediacies of dealing with what’s happening with the virus? How are resources being deployed to deal with what is happening, and what is expected to happen once the worst parts of this are over?

S3E13 | COVID-19 on Board: Tapestry Networks’ Marsha Ershaghi Hames Engages Directors on Pandemic Response

“Directors are harnessing the power of dialogue to navigate the economic, business and human implications of this crisis.”

- Marsha Ershaghi Hames

Longtime ethics and compliance expert and former LRN executive Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames speaks with LRN’s Ben DiPietro about what boards and audit committee chairs are grappling with in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. She shares her insights after holding a series of virtual roundtable discussions with directors, and also talks about how ethics and compliance teams will need to adapt to be effective in a post-COVID world.

Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames is a partner at Tapestry Networks, where she advises non executive directors, C-suite executives, and in-house counsel on issues related to corporate governance, culture transformation, board leadership, and stakeholder engagement. At Tapestry she co-leads the corporate governance practice focused on the U.S. regional audit committee networks in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. She is a contributing leader to the compensation and talent committees.

Prior to joining Tapestry, Ershaghi Hames was a managing director of strategy and development at LRN. She specialized in the alignment of leaders and organizations for effective corporate governance and organizational culture transformation, and was a former co-host of this podcast.

She is an industry thought leader, interviewed and cited by the media including CNBC, CNN, Ethisphere, HR Magazine, Compliance Week, FCPA Report, Entrepreneur.com, Chief Learning Officer, ATD Talent & Development, Corporate Counsel Magazine, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, and more. She serves as an expert fellow on USC’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making, and on the advisory boards of LMH Strategies Inc., and Compliance.ai.

Ershaghi Hames holds an Ed.D. and MA from Pepperdine University. Her research was on the role of ethical leadership as an enabler of organizational culture change. Her BA is from the University of Southern California. She is a certified compliance and ethics professional.

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

• [1:04] How are Marsha and her family doing amid the COVID-19 crisis?

• [1:26] Marsha spent almost two decades at LRN and played a leading role in the company’s success during that time. She left earlier this year for her new role at Tapestry Networks. What prompted that decision to leave and what is she doing now in her new job?

• [4:29] How has the pandemic changed the way Marsha is approaching her new job, and what is different from what she was planning to do?

• [6:07] Marsha has recently held a series of virtual meetings with audit committee chairs from many of the nation’s top corporations. What did she learn in those sessions as to what boards are doing and thinking about in the midst of the pandemic?

• [10:29] How can a board engage and make better use of the ethics and compliance programs and assets that are there when it comes to the COVID-19 response, and for how to move forward?

• [12:36] When the time comes for people to come back to the office, how is that office going to be changed, and what changes does Marsha expect to see in how people work? Will the viability and now widespread adoption of people working from home make offices obsolete?

• [15:13] How will the ethics and compliance programs need to change to be effective in a post-COVID world?