These are a few of my favorite things… and people to follow and refer to time and time again

This is one of the first publications I ever signed up to. The first was a daily email back in 2010 that was absolutely hilarious. There would be one or two line sentences in every day, cheeky language and then a link provided to more of a story about the Ethics or Compliance issue. Its frequency would later be whittled down to around once a week and then it fell off my radar completely. I don’t believe it exists anymore but if anyone knows what I’m speaking of and can hook me up to a modern day iteration, that would be so appreciated. Or if you know who was responsible for it, I’d love to be able to send some fan mail to that person(s). I have genuinely missed this daily email in my life!

Back to The FCPA Blog.

Obviously with a specialty in the FCPA space it’s a great resource for learning about FCPA cases and analysis soon after the government settlements. It also covers broader subject matters and associated commentary. For me this is the ultimate oldie but goodie resource. When you can’t supplement your training and communications with real life examples from your organization, the FCPA Blog will have a real life scenario from some other poor company for you to take advantage of without suffering the breach yourself. Reliable posting and a good website for searching for keywords of cases if you’re looking for something in particular to support a case you’re trying to make to management.

One of the few entities to maintain a thriving LinkedIn Group, the SCCE (and sister organization the HCCA for those in the healthcare space) is not just a resource with their mailings, but a community too. I love their conferences and the staff are always so sweet. Bonus feature is their jobs board, nice and niche for the Ethics and Compliance space.

Matt Kelly’s thought leadership repository, Radical Compliance is a wealth of information for inquisitive minds. Similar to Alison (below), but in a completely different style, Matt takes a no BS approach and calls it how he sees it. And sometimes in a cheeky way. But that doesn’t make his commentary any less intelligent. In addition to covering interesting cases, Radical Compliance also walks us through academic analysis of government memos, guidance, regulatory updates and every Friday, produces the Jobs Report. The Jobs Report is a light hearted read that shares the movements of our peers so that we can celebrate their new chapters.

A Volkov Law effort, this blog is a great resource for those of us who wish to stay up to date with international Compliance and US healthcare Compliance. The blog posts also cover trade sanctions and antitrust developments which are not always strong areas for all other Compliance websites so it’s a well appreciated resource for these topics. Michael Volkov also offers webinars from time to time throughout the year on all of these subject matters. He has a pretty fair payment structure in my opinion – attend the webinar for free and access to recordings is by payment.

Note: I am on Compliance Week’s advisory board. The quality of Compliance Week articles is renowned and signing up to their newsletter gives you access to a ton, and I mean a ton of webinars, some with continuing education credits and at no cost to attend.

She claims not to be an expert in the ESG space, yet she is someone that everyone in the ESG space listens to and those of us who aren’t, view as an authority too. Alison has a no BS approach to life and that shines through in her LinkedIn posts as well. Alison is adept at highlighting real life company organizations and typing the situations back to thoughtful ethics and integrity implications. She’s also an engaging and passionate speaker, if you see her on the line up for a conference and symposium, I’d at least check out her session.

I learned about half of what I know substantively about Compliance from reading Tom Fox’s blog. These days he’s more prolific at sharing his thought leadership by way of a multitude of Ethics, Compliance and Leadership podcasts and he created the Compliance Podcast Network as a platform on which to showcase his podcasts and those of other podcasts in our space – and beyond! Tom has been doing Compliance for many years now but one of the things I love the most about him is that he moves with the times – from blog posts to podcasts is but one example. Tom recently innovated with what to me, is the first targeted children’s book on Compliance: “Being a Compliance Officer is Awesome”. Looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next!

Hui Chen is famous… ok Compliance famous… for being the original author of the Department of Justice Evaluation of Corporate Compliance programs guidance (it was updated in June 2020) that was well received by Compliance Officers for being specific and targeted to help us action and polish controls and other initiatives to meet government expectations. Though Hui is no longer at the DOJ, her views continue to carry a tremendous amount of weight in the Compliance community, where she has remained active sharing her thoughts at conferences, consulting for organizations in her own capacity and now as a team member at Ropes and Gray’s R&G Insights Lab.

Jonathan is particularly strong on the topics of controls and investigations, areas for which he is well known and is very generous with his views. Following Jonathan gave me insight into the fraud pentagon and a concrete definition for internal controls. He also stays on top of when new FCPA Opinion Procedure Releases are out which is super helpful given there wasn’t much fanfare around the last one that was released in January 2022. I only caught wind of it because I follow Jonathan.

The author of perhaps the most beloved and well known book in Ethics and Compliance, Kristy has introduced video tips to her extensive portfolio of resources for the Compliance community and you can catch these while scrolling for inspiration and ideas on LinkedIn. Kristy’s consultancy firm Spark Compliance Consulting and Kristy herself each have blogs for more actionable ways to level up your Compliance program.