Areas of Focus

Ethics, Compliance + Human Risk

Yesterday’s compliance function was an office for ensuring operations and personnel complied with policies, procedures and regulations, and for de-risking noncompliance liability or penalties.

Today, many organizations approach compliance as a feature of leadership and culture and integrate compliance and ethics programs into a single responsibility to prevent, detect, and address violations before they rise to regulatory notice and response.

But many ethics-driven compliance problems percolate off-the-radar and are notoriously difficult to pre-empt even with scrupulous oversight.

A central area of our expertise is human risk forecasting. We render sophisticated heat-maps of behavioral and decision-making vulnerabilities in the organization to mitigate and neutralize high-probability ethics violations and misconduct risks before they domino.

We help leaders, boards and E&C professionals strengthen ethics and compliance practices, create and stabilize ethical culture and accurately forecast human risks.

Minimizing recurrence risks involves more than resolution of a single incident. Additional features of our work involve identifying and assessing critical lessons to-be-learned, key decision lapses, misjudgments and other blind-spot factors which unwittingly contributed to the incident and leveraging this analysis to architect enhanced E&C risk practices.

We help organizations use the crisis as an inflection point to disrupt a cultural status quo and to develop new perspectives, knowledge, and skills.