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Statement from A. Tysen Duva: AAG of DOJ Criminal Division

Ethicsverse Day 2026Webinars

Ethicsverse Day 20269 min read

Statement from A. Tysen Duva: AAG of DOJ Criminal Division

In the Ethicsverse Day 2026 keynote, Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva — head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division — spoke directly to the compliance community for roughly thirty minutes. This recap captures every part of his statement and Q&A: his three enforcement priorities, the June 2025 FCPA memo, the corporate enforcement policy and its flowchart, the Balt and Scoular cases, and his working definition of good-faith self-disclosure.

Joah Park

2026-07-24T14:10:00.000Z

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From Signatures to Understanding: Rethinking Policy Distribution and Accountability

In this Ethicsverse session, host Nick Gallo sat down with Evie Wentink, Principal at Ethical Edge Experts, and Ximena Restrepo, Compliance & Privacy Partner at Logan Health, to challenge the idea that a collected signature equals compliance. This recap covers every major theme: what to ask before you blame an employee, why middle managers are the real distribution channel, the forgetting curve and the 200-word summary, saying it seven times seven ways, building a policy map and a distribution plan, accessibility as a compliance obligation, the 60-second signature problem, who actually owns policy, what the DOJ looks for, consistent enforcement, and the five rights of policy distribution.

Joah Park

2026-09-17T16:00:00.000Z

Webinars8 min read

Coaching for Compliance: What Ted Lasso Teaches Us About Culture

A recent Ethicsverse episode explored what Apple TV's Ted Lasso can teach compliance leaders about building trust-based culture. Hosts Nick Gallo and Matt Kelly sit down with guests Juan Fuentes and Toni Frain to break down the lessons behind Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent, Rebecca Welton, and Nate Shelley.

Joah Park

2026-09-11T17:06:04.726Z

Webinars10 min read

EV MBA: Run It Like You Own It — Influence, Culture, and Metrics That Matter

The sixth and closing installment of the Ethicsverse MBA series brings host Nick Gallo's business case for compliance to a close: how to build influence without formal authority, use behavioral science and nudge theory to make the compliant path the easy path, measure culture with real leading indicators instead of anecdotes, map the stakeholders who decide your program's fate, and swap activity metrics for the impact metrics executives actually care about. Anchored by a four-year case study of a compliance officer who moved from cost center to the executive committee, this recap covers the full session.

Joah Park

2026-09-08T14:00:00.000Z

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Partnering Between Compliance and Legal for Organizational Resilience

Host Nick Gallo sat down with Rebecca Rehm, Compliance Officer at Olympus Corporation, and Elizabeth "Beth" Frey Miller, a veteran in-house legal leader, to explore how compliance and legal can partner for organizational resilience. This recap covers every major theme: where the disconnect between the two functions really comes from, why the "legal owns legal risk, compliance owns conduct risk" divide doesn't hold up, playing to your strengths instead of your title, aligning on risk appetite for new initiatives, avoiding internal forum shopping, whether compliance needs to speak legal, vetting an organization's risk tolerance before taking a job, and practical first steps for building the kind of trusted relationship that lets both functions present a united front to the business.

Joah Park

2026-09-03T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars12 min read

A Compliance Officer's AI Action Plan: From Debate to Deployment

Host Nick Gallo, Chief Servant & Co-CEO of Ethico, sat down with Hayley Tozeski, Senior Counsel, Ethics & Compliance at Cisco, to move the AI conversation from debate to deployment. This recap covers every major theme: why the hype is finally reality, treating AI as a sparring partner rather than a replacement, building quality-check guardrails into every prompt, running new tools in parallel before flipping the switch, cutting through vendor marketing, use-case-level governance and documentation, accountability and the 'work slop is your slop' rule, and what a defensible AI-enabled program looks like to a regulator.

Joah Park

2026-08-27T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars11 min read

Leveraging Tone at the Top: Turning Intent Into Global Culture

Host Nick Gallo of Ethico and moderator Matt Kelly of Radical Compliance were joined by Tara Shewchuk, SVP, Chief Privacy, Integrity & Compliance Officer at Medtronic, and Kershwin Singh, a longtime life-sciences compliance lawyer formerly with ZOLL, Pfizer, and Boehringer, to unpack how compliance teams actually mobilize tone at the top. This recap covers every major theme: what leveraging tone really means, why culture is a control rather than a nice-to-have, the cascade through middle managers, winning buy-in and making programs mandatory, senior-leader tactics from integrity awards to video vignettes, overcoming employee cynicism, building turnkey tools, sustaining consistency with an ethics score, the DOJ lens, and how to talk about ROI.

Joah Park

2026-08-20T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars11 min read

Rethinking What Hotline Data Can Tell Us: Silence as an Early Warning Signal

Host Nick Gallo sat down with Valerie Cloud, Chief Compliance Officer of Summa Health, to rethink how we read hotline data. This recap covers every major theme: why low volume never means low risk, the iceberg of hidden risk that never enters the hotline, moving from reactive to predictive compliance, closing the loop to build a culture of ambassadors, reading signals beyond substantiation rates, triangulating hotline data with turnover and exit interviews, treating speak-up culture as a hard-wired operational safeguard, holding leaders accountable, and reframing the board conversation around the three things that matter.

Joah Park

2026-08-18T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars11 min read

The Decision Intelligence Gap: Good Intentions to Consistent Execution

Host Nick Gallo sat down with Dr. Hemma R. Lomax — Deputy General Counsel, VP, Head of Global Business Integrity at Docusign and author of The Decision Intelligence Gap — and Chelsea Azrak, VP, Law & Compliance at Revlon Inc., to explore the distance between what organizations know they should do and what actually happens at 4:59 on a Friday. This recap covers every major theme: why the gap persists even in mature programs, why we should build high-quality decision-making rather than police decisions, the business judgment rule for employees, designing organizations to learn, embedding decision-useful guidance in the flow of work, and how compliance becomes a thought partner instead of the office of no.

Joah Park

2026-08-13T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars11 min read

EV MBA: Engaging Operations, Supply Chain, and Tech Teams

The fifth installment of the Ethicsverse MBA series turns to the machine behind the brand — operations, supply chain, and technology. Host Nick Gallo argues that most business risk lives in the back office where the boots are on the ground, and shows how compliance can map supply chain tiers, build fluency with the tech stack and data governance, ask the right questions of a CTO, and use an operational risk heat map to reach every process in the enterprise. Anchored by the Boeing 737 MAX and Rana Plaza case studies, this recap covers the full session.

Joah Park

2026-08-06T14:00:00.000Z

Webinars9 min read

The New Standards for Compliance Training: Why Engagement Beats Length

Host Nick Gallo sat down with Kirsten Liston and Patti Caswell of Rethink Compliance to unpack why the bar for compliance training has moved — and what modern, behavior-changing training actually looks like. This recap captures every major theme: why the standard has changed, engagement as the only currency that matters, the layer-cake of subject expertise and creative presentation, authenticity over polish, the telltale signs of a stale program, treating adults like adults, and how to collect data that proves training mattered.

Joah Park

2026-07-30T14:00:00.000Z

Ethicsverse Day 20267 min read

DOJ Insider Perspectives on the Current Regulatory Landscape

After AAG Tysen Duva's keynote, moderator Matt Kelly convened: Hui Chen, Former First-Ever Compliance Counsel Expert for the US Department of Justice; Sean Tonolli, Former Acting Principal Deputy Chief of the DOJ Criminal Division Fraud Section and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney; and Matthew Axelrod, Former Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, DOJ Senior Counselor, Special Counsel to The White House. This panel debriefed what was said and what was left unsaid. This recap covers every thread: reading between the lines, export controls as "the new FCPA," the new National Fraud Enforcement Division, the cartel nexus in Mexico, how prosecutors really use the compliance guidelines, and why the rush to self-disclose is often a mistake.

Joah Park

2026-07-24T14:40:00.000Z

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