By Adam TurteltaubThere’s a lot of discussion about the relationship between compliance and the general counsel. Less words, though, have been dedicated to the important relationship between compliance and HR.Netherlands-based Asaf Shalev, Global Ethics, Risk & Compliance Lead for DLL rightly observes that maximizing synergy between the work of HR …

By Adam TurteltaubStress can be a good thing. Burnout, though, is something altogether different and very real for compliance professionals.Sarah Hadden (LinkedIn), CEO and Publisher of Corporate Compliance Insights shares in this podcast the not always encouraging data on stress and burnout from their 2025 Compliance Officer Working Conditions, St…

By Adam TurteltaubThere is a tendency to think of risk assessment as one thing and demonstrating the value of the compliance program as another. In this podcast, Catherine Bruno, Assistant Director Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC) at the FBI shows that the risk assessment process can also be a great way to demonstrate the value of a strong …

By Adam TurteltaubThe words “works council” inspires fear and dread in the hearts and minds of many who have never worked with them. They need not, says Lisanne Winde, attorney at law at Wybenga advocaten and Alain Lambert, regional ethics and compliance officer for Central Europe at WSP.In this podcast, they share how the works council can actuall…

By Adam TurteltaubAn audit by a Unified Program Integrity Contractor auditor, better known as a UPIC audit, can be a very scary thing. Providers are often shocked and even indignant to receive a letter notifying them of the audit and alleging fraud.Jon Rawlson (LinkedIn), President & Founder of Armory Hill Advocates, reminds us that the audit was l…

By Adam TurteltaubAs the sun set, the chief compliance officer stared out the window, wondering how she would communicate with her workforce in a way that they would understand. As much as she looked, the answer wasn’t outside in the skies turning from blue to black. She wasn’t finding it under the white LEDs in the ceiling above her desk, either.F…

By Adam TurteltaubIn addition to releasing its General Compliance Program Guidance, the OIG at HHS announced plans to publish a series of Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPG). The first of these, addressing nursing facilities, was released in November 2024.As CJ Wolf, Professor in healthcare Administration at BYU Idaho expl…

By Adam TurteltaubSevda Huseynova is the Ethics and Compliance Officer for SOCAR Midstream, a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in Azerbaijan. The company manages the oil and gas export pipelines of the country.If you think working for an SOE means you don’t have to worry about compliance, she warns you to think again. SOEs still faces risk in a wide ra…

By Adam TurteltaubKISS takes on a new meaning in this podcast: Keep it Streamlined & Strategic.Keeping it streamlined and strategic is also the topic of a session at the 2025 HCCA Compliance Institute that will be led by Krista Muszak, Senior Manager, Process Optimization at Pfizer and Angela Smart, Senior Compliance and Ethics Partner, Intermounta…

By Adam TurteltaubBusiness people are given all kinds of goals for revenues, profitability, efficiency and more. For compliance, though, not so often. Many organizations struggle with how to set compliance goals, or even if they should set them.Madrid-based, Juan Ignacio Paillás, Head of Global Compliance Business Sectors for Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,…

By Adam TurteltaubHealthcare is often rife with fraud, and organizations struggle to prevent it. To gain a different perspective on how to prevent wrongdoing, we spoke with Alec Burlakoff, a convicted fraudster from Insys Pharmaceuticals who now leads Limitless! Consulting.To prevent fraud, he recommends seriously looking at the incentives program …

By Adam TurteltaubAre your helpline calls being responded to properly? Are the investigations proceeding expeditiously and properly? To find out, it’s good to do an audit periodically.Before you can begin, though, you need to determine if there is enough available data for an audit, cautions Juliette Gust, President of Ethics Suite, and author of t…

By Adam TurteltaubThink you don’t have to worry about the SEC because you’re at a private company or a non-profit? Think again says, Kevin Muhlendorf, attorney at Wiley Rein. You may still end up in the Commission’s crosshairs.He warns that the SEC’s power of investigations expands far and wide, and just being a supplier to a publicly-traded compan…

By Adam TurteltaubBusiness transformations can be times both of risk and opportunity for compliance programs. Employees, struggling to understand the changes around them and feeling stressed, may opt to do the wrong or at least ill-advised things. By the same token, transformations provide an opportunity for compliance teams to change their roles w…

By Adam TurteltaubOh, Artificial Intelligence. So much promise, and so much risk. What’s a compliance and ethics professional to do? Start by listening to this podcast about the chapter “Managing the Ethics and Compliance Risks of Artificial Intelligence” in the 2025 edition of The Complete Compliance & Ethics Manual.We spoke with the article’s co-…

By Adam TurteltaubSometimes you make a few technical changes to a compliance program because a law or regulation has changed. Autoliv didn’t want to do that and just meet technical requirement of the EU Whistleblower Directive. They wanted to use it as an opportunity to assess what they were doing to encourage employee reporting, whether it was wor…

By Adam TurteltaubSo the IT folk can’t wait for your business people to delete those old documents, meantime, the business people want to hold onto them because they never know when they might need that info again. Then, all of a sudden there’s a legal issue and a hold is in place. Instantly the game changes.Chris Kruse, Executive Vice President & …

By Adam TurteltaubYou do all that work but how do you know you’re being successful? It’s not like people come running in the door and say, “Hey, guess what bad thing I almost did.”The compliance team at the National Security Agency (NSA) had that same challenge. In this podcast, Natalie Knowles, Director of Compliance, and Zack Conyne, Manager, fir…

By Adam TurteltaubWhen we last spoke with Tyler Shultz back in 2020, he discussed his experience at Theranos as both an employee and a whistleblower. Four years later, the case is in the rearview mirror, the former CEO is in prison, he founded two startups of his own, and he now speaks to corporations about cultivating courageous work culturesWith …

By Adam TurteltaubFew things hold more promise, or cause more stress for compliance professionals, than AI. What is it? How does it work? And does anyone know how to keep it from showing so much bias?David Silva, Chief Compliance Officer at Collaborative Imaging, will be addressing the topic of “Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, and Compliance” …

By Adam TurteltaubChart auditing may not be the sexiest part of healthcare compliance, but it plays an important role in discouraging Medicare fraud and catching problems early.Madhavi Perumpalath, Director-Physician Practice Compliance at Northeast Georgia Health System and Alka Kumar, Compliance Director and Privacy Officer at Resolve Pain Soluti…

By Adam TurteltaubWith value-based care growing, what role does compliance play? To find out we spoke with Carolyn Barton, Vice President, West Regional Compliance Officer at Kaiser Permanente.She explains that at Kaiser they define value-based care as a healthcare delivery and financing model that improves health outcome and increases access to af…

By Adam TurteltaubNo one would dispute that stress and compliance go hand in hand, but Scot Eibel (LinkedIn), a former chief compliance officer and currently leading Eibel Coaching and Compliance Consulting, warns that doesn’t mean it has to get out of control. There are steps we can all take to manage our stress levels.One stressor to watch for is…

By Adam TurteltaubBenjamin Christenson, Trial Attorney and Special Assistant to the Director for Criminal Enforcement at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, joins us for this podcast in which he sheds light on the their document, Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations (ECCP). First issued in 20…

By Adam TurteltaubWant to improve your code of conduct? Don’t miss the session: Cornering the Code: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Toward a Better Code of Ethics at the 2025 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute.In this podcast Matej Drascek, Head of Internal Audit at LON d.d. and Ursula Schmidt of Schmidt Advisory recommend starting with the …

By Adam TurteltaubI want to write enough about this podcast to get you to listen to it, but not too much because then you might decide that reading this was enough.I’m conflicted, and conflicts of interest are the topic of this podcast with Kasturi Venkatesh, who spoke on the topic “Ethics in Action: A Fun Guide to Tackling Personal Conflicts of In…

By Adam TurteltaubOn November 6, 2024, the U.K.'s Home Office issued Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud (the Guidance). It comes out of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA), which establishes that a corporation can be held criminally liable fo…

By Adam TurteltaubAuditing and monitoring of the compliance program is pretty standard these days. Entain’s Karen Nightingale, Group Director of Ethics & Compliance and Jonathan Fox, Group Head of Ethics & Compliance Programmes, make the case in this podcast for going to the next level and actively testing your program. The two will also be address…

By Adam TurteltaubNote: This podcast was recorded on December 17, 2024. Any changes made after this date will be addressed at the Compliance Institute. At the 2025 HCCA Compliance Institute in Las Vegas, Adam Greene (LinkedIn), partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP will be leading the session “New Developments in Health information Privacy.” In this…

By Adam TurteltaubWell, it turns out that you can be in two places at once, if you are a surgeon. Even better, you can bill the government under the Medicare program for being at both of them.It’s not quite as strange as it sounds, explains Sara Brinkmann, Partner, and Lauren Gennett, Counsel, of King & Spalding, and, of course, there are rules.Ove…

By Adam TurteltaubOn November 22, 2024, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri recapped the changes made during the Biden Administration in enforcement policies and announced a few new ones. To better understand what this all means, we spoke with Daniel Kahn (LinkedIn) , partner at Davis Polk, and himself a veteran of the DOJ…

By Adam TurteltaubOnce again it is time to sit down with Matt Kelly (LinkedIn), Editor and CEO at Radical Compliance and discuss what happened last year and where the compliance profession is going in the new one.In this podcast we looked back at 2024 and explored five key topics.Changes from the DOJThe DOJ recently issued a recap of its key activi…

By Adam TurteltaubRetaliation is the bane of every compliance program, with the potential of destroying employee confidence in reporting systems, not to mention embarrassing and expensive lawsuits.It is also complex and can be subtle, explains Keith Read, a former chief ethics and compliance officer and author of the book The Unconventional Complia…

By Adam TurteltaubHow do you know your compliance program is working, both for your peace of mind or if the government comes knocking? It’s a tough question, and many wonder either how to start measuring or if they’re measuring the right thing.Andrew McBride, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Integrity Bridge, has a great deal of experience in t…

By Adam TurteltaubOh, come on, we all know it: sometimes the business people get tired of all those compliance requirements. That’s okay and to be expected. But, how do you know when it has progressed beyond the usual (and maybe healthy) resistance to full-blown exhaustion?Cecilia Fellouse, General Manager of Compliance for Good, warns that, ironic…

By Adam TurteltaubDo you ever ask yourself, “What kind of compliance officer am I?” Netherlands-based Susan du Becker, Director, Risk & Compliance at Microsoft, thinks we all should. To her experience, there are two answers to that question.One is a regulatory compliance officer: someone who is focused on the requirements of regulators, potential f…

By Adam TurteltaubRob Tull (LinkedIn), Managing Director at Effective Compliance LLC wants every compliance officer to be both competent and able to demonstrate it. He advocates for the development of four sequential, underlying skills: Communication The ability to be aware of risks Adaptability, and Decision-making/judgementUnderlying all of them …

By Adam TurteltaubWho are you talking to? When you think about all the employees in your organization, who do you see in your mind? You probably, and should, think of several people: the person in the plant, the R&D people, the sales team. They all have different needs, maybe even different cultures.Adam Balfour, Carsten Tams and Karen Moore (Linke…

By Adam TurteltaubIt’s a complex world, we all know, and we all try to simplify it and our lives, at least from time to time. Nitish Upadhyaya, Director-Behavioral Insights at Ropes & Gray’s R&G Insights Lab and podcaster, wants compliance teams to appreciate complexity and, if not embrace it, at least understand how to work with it.For him this jo…

By Adam TurteltaubThe Health Care Compliance Association just published the 4th edition of the Research Compliance Professional’s Handbook, and to see what’s new in it we sat down with the editor, Kelly Willenberg (LinkedIn) of Kelly Willenberg & Associates.The Handbook, she explains is there to help both those who attend the HCCA Healthcare Resear…

By Adam TurteltaubIt’s one thing if a company wants to protect its trade secrets. But, what if it wants to keep its dirty little secrets from getting out? Then, the SEC may want to step in.Stephen Cohen (LinkedIn), partner at Sidley Austin, and a former senior leader in the Enforcement Division at the SEC, explain in this podcast that, to understan…

By Adam TurteltaubGreg Walters is an attorney in the Cyber Risk and Governance Branch at the SEC. But in this podcast he’s not speaking as an enforcer but as someone who has seen a lot of compliance training during his career as a government attorney across numerous agencies.He warns that while an organization may boast of 100% completion rates for…

By Adam TurteltaubThere is an expectation in many, if not most people, that at some point they will, or should be, promoted. But how do you know if you are ready? And, once you are promoted, what does it take to succeed in your new role?To find the answers we spoke with compliance veteran, Debbie Hennelly, Founder & President of Resiliti.The first …

By Adam TurteltaubWhat if you had a compliance program and nobody noticed? It’s not likely. But what if you had a compliance program, and nobody understood what it did? That, sadly, is more than a bit of an ongoing problem.To take on that challenge we spoke with Carolina Santos de Silva, Head of Ethics & Compliance EMEA for Bridgestone EMEA and Pau…

By Adam TurteltaubWith the explosion of sanctions regimes globally, and particularly in the US, most any company that exports just about anything now has to have a trade compliance effort. To understand what that entails we spoke with Julia Komarovskaya, Export Compliance Manager at MathWorks.It’s a complex challenge, she explains, with the Bureau …

By Adam TurteltaubReports are that there over 50 million people in the world living in modern slavery conditions, and, of those, 60% work in forced labor in the private economy. Ensuring that your organization isn’t sourcing from suppliers who victimize labor is both a moral and a legal obligation, with more and more jurisdictions enacting legislat…

By Adam TurteltaubThere are hundreds of Compliance Perspectives podcasts, and this is the first one that is a podcast about podcasts. More specifically, the podcasts created by the compliance team at John Deere.The compliance team there had long looked to a wide range of tools for reaching the workforce including a monthly email newsletter, channel…

By Adam TurteltaubPsychological safety is a term we hear a lot in business and elsewhere. It’s also a concept that Jen Mason, Vice President, Enterprise Compliance & Ethics at McKesson, thinks we in compliance should embrace. It means creating an environment where employees can feel comfortable expressing their thoughts, ideas and concerns without …

By Adam TurteltaubWe live, to say the least, in polarized times. While it’s easy to look to politicians as the cause, Karthik Ramanna, Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and author of the book The Age of Outrage: How to lead in a Polarized World, argues there are other causes to cons…

By Adam TurteltaubThe Corporate Transparence Act was a part of landmark anti-money laundering legislation passed in 2021. It was designed to shift reporting of corporate ownership from a hodgepodge of different financial institutions to the owners or the companies.As Jamie Schafer (LinkedIn), Partner at Perkins Coie explains in this podcast, the go…