ACE members and guests met at the UPS headquarters for a complimentary lunch and learn entitled "When you're hungry, tired, and least prepared..." Marine Officer Ethics Training for When Ethics Matters Most. Presenters Col Alford, Col LtCol Samarov, and Maj Dowd, using real-time audience responses in response to organizational and battlefield situations, highlighted the necessity of ethics and character. The Marines’ character- and values-based approach to ethics and compliance challenged the dominant corporate reliance on rules. Rules, the Marines argued, can never adequately anticipate or address the ethical challenges that face Marines and corporations alike. Full of lively and surprising exchanges, the program concluded with a standing ovation for the Marine instructors.
Over 65 ACE members and guests met at Georgia Power Company for ACE's 4th Annual Compliance and Ethics Best Practices Workshop. This year’s workshop covered issues by nationally known speakers on topics ranging from studying how individuals arrive at their personal ethics, to learning best practices from the world’s most ethical companies, to considering the ethical implications of social media.
First, Dr. J. Brooke Hamilton, Steen Memorial/Regents Professor of Business Administration, University of Louisiana at Lafayette spoke on "Designing Compliance and Ethics Programs for the Brain We Have rather than the Brain We Think We Have." Then, Katherine Andrews, Chief Compliance Office/Senior Counsel-Competition Law, GE Energy, and Mark Burns, Global Compliance & Ethics Group Manager, UPS participated in a panel discussion entitled "The World's Most Ethical Companies: Staying Ahead of the Curve." Keith Cureton, Corporate Enterprise Risk Manager, UPS, followed with a presentation on "Enterprise Risk Management: A Catalyst for Conversation." Finally, Meredith Williams, JD, Chief Knowledge Management Officer, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, presented on the topic of "Social Media Ethical Implications." This event offered both State of Georgia CLE credits and CCEP credit. Click the links below to view the agenda and more information on the sessions and speakers.
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ACE members met at the Home Depot Store Support Center for a complimentary Members-Only Lunch & Learn entitled "Yes, You Can Ask That." Lunch was followed by a vibrant and candid discussion of the participants' anonymously collected questions. Current ACE board members read each question and opened the floor for participants to share suggestions, testimonies, concerns and follow-up questions.
ACE members met at The Weather Channel Corporate Headquarters for a complimentary Members-Only Lunch & Learn entitled Best Practices on Building Ethics & Compliance Hotline and Program Awareness. Lunch was followed by a presentation on strategies for improving ethics and compliance hotline reporting. Tad Bixby, Practice Director at Global Compliance Services, discussed best practice tips for improving hotline reporting quality, volume and non-anonymous submissions through effective and persistent communications.
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ACE members and guests met at Georgia Power Corporate Headquarters for a complimentary Lunch & Learn entitled: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions & Implications for Compliance Programs. Presenter DeWitt Rogers, Partner at Troutman Sanders LLP, discussed the potential impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and the issues and challenges that may arise for compliance programs.
The Atlanta Compliance & Ethics Roundtable hosted its first kickoff meeting of the 2011 year. Over 35 guests met at the United Parcel Services (UPS) headquarters for the complimentary Lunch & Learn seminar entitled Risks, Initiatives and Reporting: Challenges for 2011. Presenter Anne Tkacs, Executive Director of Ethics and Compliance at AGL Resources and ACE Board member, outlined the significant changes made in the 2010 Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines and discussed how AGL is implementing changes in response. In addition, Debra Curtis-Magley, Public Relations Manager at UPS discussed the changing demands in Social Media and how UPS is applying social media tactics within its own communications strategies to meet the new demands.
Over 40 ACE members and guests met at Georgia Power for ACE's Annual Compliance & Ethics Best Practices Workshop. The all-day workshop featured nationally recognized speakers and relevant topics to the ethics & compliance professional. First, Rebecca Walker, Esq., Partner, Kaplan & Walker LLP, spoke on "Challenges to Compliance and Ethics Programs in Tough Economic and Changing Regulatory Times: Lessons Learned and Mistakes Made." Then, Adam Turteltaub, CCEP, CHC, Vice President of Membership Development, The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and The Health Care Compliance Association, led an interactive workshop entitled "Defining a Social Media Policy." Finally, Carol DiBattiste, S.V.P. Privacy, Security, Compliance and Government Affairs, LexisNexis, presented on the topic of "Building a Privacy, Security, and Compliance Framework." This event offered both State of Georgia CLE and CCEP credit. Click here to view the agenda and more information on the sessions and speakers.
ACE members met at Georgia Power, Plant McDonough, for a complimentary Members-Only Lunch & Learn entitled How Operations Compliance Supports Corporate Compliance at Georgia Power. Lunch was followed by a history of Georgia Power generation and Plant McDonough, presented by Alan Reeves, Maintenance Manager. Next, Kay Farner, Compliance Team Leader at Plant McDonough, and Helen Nalley, Southern Company Generation Compliance Director, discussed the compliance function at the plant and how it relates to generation compliance and corporate compliance. Finally, participants took a tour of the plant.
On May 4, ACE members met at Troutman Sanders for lunch to discuss The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act & Anti-Bribery Concerns. Joel Rogers, Senior Counsel at The Home Depot, led the discussion. A business update on the state of ACE was also provided.
Over 40 ACE members and guests met for a lunch & learn seminar entitled: Widening the Lens of Compliance and Risk: New Directions and Research. Distinguished faculty of the Robinson College of Business, Tamer Cavusgil, Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair and Director, Institute of International Business, and Wayne Lord, Clinical Professor, Executive MBA Program, discussed their soon-to-be released World Markets Risk Index.Participants learned about this groundbreaking effort that The J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University is undertaking to help companies measure and understand the contextual drivers of risk, in order to develop strategies to mitigate those risks and become more resilient. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics kindly hosted the event.
The Atlanta Compliance and Ethics Roundtable hosted its first kickoff meeting of the year. ACE members from Cox Communications, Georgia Power and The Home Depot guided the timely discussion: Setting 2010 Compliance & Ethics Goals. A quick business update on the state of ACE also was provided.
Over 50 ACE members and guests met for an all-day, Annual Compliance and Ethics Advanced Best Practices Workshop where experts shared new and applicable practices to enhance compliance and ethics programs. The first session was entitled Twitter, Facebook and YouTube - Social Media Policies to Protect Your Company and consisted of a panel discussion featuring Lynn Goodendorf, CEO of Good Security Consulting LLC; Randy Cadenhead, Privacy Counsel at Cox Communications; and John P. Hutchins, Partner at Troutman Sanders LLP. Courtney McBurney and Mitch Mitchelson, Partners at Alston & Bird LLP, led the second session entitled New Leaders and New Laws - Key Legal Developments Impacting Compliance. The third session, called Shaping the Middle - Leveraging Line Leadership to Promote Ethics & Compliance, featured Jacki D. Trevino, CCEP, Assistant Director, Global Ethics & Compliance, at Dresser, Inc. Finally, Marty Taylor, Director of the Center for Corporate Ethics - a Division of the Institute for Global Ethics, presented on the topic of Ethical Decision-Making (EDM) Model - Understanding the Purpose, Expectations and Best Practices of Deploying an EDM. This event offered both CLE and CCEP credits to participants.
The roundtable hosted a discussion on the timely topic of Surveys and Certifications: Best Practices. ACE members from Cox, The Home Depot and Cisco guided the conversation.
ACE Members met for lunch to discuss best practices in engaging a company's board. What does the board need to know, and when? How much should a company rely on its board for direction and support? The conversation was led by a panel of knowledgeable experts: DeWitt Rogers (Troutman Sanders), Allen Johnson (Georgia Power), Mark Snyderman (formerly of Coca-Cola), and David Forquer (Board of Directors, American Proteins).
ACE Members attended a best-practice session led by Cisco and The Home Depot and discussed their companies' initiatives around Innovative Communication Methods. The event was held over lunch (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.) at Cox Communications.
ACE members converged on the Capital City Club in downtown Atlanta from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to hear a unique and stimulating conversation between Mr. Aaron Beam, former CFO of HealthSouth and Mr. Oliver Halle. Mr. Beam spent three months in a federal prison for financial fraud at HealthSouth, and Mr. Oliver Halle is a former FBI investigator with a wealth of insight into corporate crime. The two sat down to discuss with each other and ACE members how otherwise good people get caught up in unexpected misconduct, and what we can do to prevent it in our own organizations.
Name: "Advanced Best Practices for the Compliance and Ethics Professional."
Location: Cox Enterprises, Atlanta, GA 30328
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Name: "Hot Topics in Compliance"
Location: Mueller Water Products, Inc. Atlanta, GA 30328
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Name: The Home Depot Gives New Meaning to Their Phrase "You Can Do It. We Can Help."
Location: Home Depot
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Name: "How Companies Deal with Conflicts of Interest/Gifts and Entertainment"
Location: Closed Meeting for ACE members only.
Name: "Who's Lying? How to Identify and Document Untruthfulness in Internal Investigative Interviews"
Location: Bank of America Plaza, 600 Peachtree Street NE
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Name: "Compliance or Business Ethics - Inhaling or Exhaling?"
Location: The Commerce Club
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Name: "Risk Assessment."
Location: The Home Depot, 2455 Paces Ferry Road NW, Building C, Atlanta, GA 30339
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