October 9, 2020
Washington DC Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference
Virtual, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)Agenda
All session times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Friday, October 9
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08:25 AM - 08:30 AMOpening Remarks
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AMManaging Third-Party Compliance Risks after COVID-19 Daniel Hartnett, Associate Managing Director, Kroll, a Division of Duff & Phelps
- COVID-19 has accelerated the emerging trend of companies rethinking and possibly reengineering global supply chain networks
- This will increase pressure upon compliance teams to minimize their firm’s exposure to third-party regulatory and reputational risk, often in a "do more with less" environment
- Ensuring due diligence best practices are in place can help compliance teams support their firm’s global supply chain recovery efforts
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09:30 AM - 09:45 AMBreak
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09:45 AM - 10:45 AMThe Challenges of Maintaining a Consistent Ethics Program Across Multiple Cultures and Remote Locations Jennifer Whitmore, UK Ethics Officer, Lockheed Martin Steven Pegg, Senior Ethics Officer, Lockheed Martin Intl-Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Cultural Alignment - Experiences and examples of how to deploy an ethics program that appreciates the culture not only at different geographic locations but also from different heritage businesses, even domestically
- Managing Remote Locations - Situations that led to the development of a remote and small site international playbook and experiences of using it to achieve a consistent approach to managing the program and gathering feedback consistent
- Using Ethics Representatives - Use of part-time ethics representatives can greatly extend the reach and range of the ethics program and result in a local deployment of the common ethics program in tune with the local culture
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10:45 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PMInformation Security: Building a Security Culture Krizi Trivisani, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Howard University
- Creating a cybersecurity aware culture
- Embedding cybersecurity awareness in your compliance program
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMMid-Conference Break
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01:00 PM - 02:00 PMManaging Ethics in a Time of Crisis: How to Pivot Your Ethics Program to not Only Address the Current Crisis but Also Support the Culture and Influence Change Within the Organization Sandra Evers-Manly, Vice President, Global Corporate Responsibility, Northrop Grumman Corporation Doreen Schefer, Director Of Compliance and Ethics Investigations, Northrop Grumman
- Strategies and ideas on how ethics organizations can adjust their programs to address new realities and risks during times of change, like #metoo, COVID-19 and Social Justice
- Helping employees and leaders deal with change and be resilient in times of crisis
- Moving from surviving to thriving – taking the opportunity to influence change within the organization
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02:00 PM - 02:15 PMBreak
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02:15 PM - 03:15 PMBehavioral Ethics and Compliance Jeffrey Kaplan, Partner, Kaplan & Walker LLP James Knapp, Investigations Director, Freddie Mac
- Practical lessons for using behavioral ethics in developing effective compliance programs.
- Behavioral ethics approaches to risk and program assessment.
- Using behavioral ethics in compliance, training, communications and investigations
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03:15 PM - 03:30 PMBreak
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03:30 PM - 04:30 PMInterpersonal Conflict Resolution Skills for Ethics & Compliance Professionals Anne Harris, Principal, Ethics Works, LLC
- Conflict Resolution challenges we face in our roles: sometimes as participants, sometimes as mediators
- Critical interpersonal skills we need for conflict resolution: back to basics with Active Listening and Emotional Intelligence
- Getting to resolution when long-term relationships matter. Trust, creative problem-solving, and win-win outcomes