February 14th, 2024 - What’s driving your ethics and code of conduct? - Ethics Virtual Training

The Twin Cities Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners (TCCCFE) is pleased to announce our February ethics training session.  Please see additional details below.

Attendees will receive credit for three ethics CPE credit hours.  We hope to see you there!

What’s driving your ethics and code of conduct?

Suzan McGinnis

Speaker Bio: 

Suzan McGinnis is an ethics and compliance professional with over 16 years of experience in global corporate organizations. Suzan has extensive experience in ethics office management, developing training and awareness programs, policies and procedures, Codes of Conduct, conflicts of interest, and gift and vendor relationship management. Suzan is a Principal Consultant at LUMEN Worldwide Endeavors and now focuses on serving LUMEN’s clients, providing Code, ESG, vendor management and policy and procedure development.

Suzan has worked in-house as Director of Ethics and Compliance in global consumer retailers. In those roles she worked across the organization leading compliance and ethics projects. Including policy development initiatives, including an annual update of ethics policies, and procedures from conflict of interest to anti-bribery and confidentiality, as well as the development of annual revisions of Codes of Ethics. In these roles, Suzan led and participated in compliance and ethics investigations in response to hotline inquiries, prepared Board reports summarizing the status of the compliance and ethics program, managed the conflicts of interest disclosure and resolution process and oversaw the misconduct reporting hotlines. Before obtaining her law degree and entering the compliance and ethics arena, Suzan was an Academic Librarian.

Speaker Topic:

Is your company Code of Conduct fluff or a governance document? How do you know if the company Code can stand up to the pressures of today's workforce? What to do if you realize that the company Code is a check the box document instead of a governance document with guidance for employees and strong enough to support policies, procedures, and discipline.

Learning Objectives:

*What makes a Code a strong governance document.

*How to evaluate a Code for fluff vs teeth.

*Recommendations on language to make sure to include and exclude in Codes of Conduct.

*Using a strong Code effectively in investigations.

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Lisa Beth Lentini Walker

Speaker Bio:

Lisa Beth Lentini Walker is the AGC, Corporate Legal of Marqeta, Inc. (a NASDAQ-listed FinTech) and is the CEO of Lumen Worldwide Endeavors, a firm specializing in compliance, governance and ethics consulting. She also is an adjunct professor of law in the U.S. and EU. Lisa Beth has led award-winning legal and compliance departments within large public corporations and privately held enterprises. She does this by strategically aligning resources to create efficiencies and advising the board of directors to further strategic initiatives while mitigating risks in all aspects of the domestic and global operations. She has held corporate secretarial, legal, compliance, ethics, governance and risk positions as an attorney at a Fortune 50 corporation, as the compliance leader of a global travel company operating in 150 countries and as the corporate secretary, chief compliance officer and co-chair of the risk council at a NYSE-listed corporation. Lisa Beth also served with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., in the Divisions of Corporation Finance and Enforcement. Lisa Beth is a member of the Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and District of Columbia bars. She is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and a certified meditation and mindfulness specialist. Lisa Beth co-authored the book, “Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating and Storytelling Shape Compliance Program Influence” in 2021.

Speaker Topic:

Ethics, Morality or Something Else? - Topics related to values in business and in life are heavily loaded with meaning that we attribute to those terms based on lived experiences and formative background. This can lead to the risk of bias in investigations and in implementing cultures within organizations. Understanding expectations and implementing fair practices aligned to shared values is critical to culture building, trust and integrity. It is also an area that needs to be mindfully developed and cultivated.

Learning objectives:
 

*What terms like ethics and integrity can mean in different organizations and how to find clues

*How biases and assumptions can impact investigations in the workplace

*What we can do to identify stated and unstated expectations and biases

*How to maintain independence and focus on fact-finding