Great Women in Compliance: Erica Salmon Byrne – Building a Legacy of Ethics | Thomas Fox – Compliance Evangelist

In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Hemma visits with Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of Ethisphere. Hemma has long admired Ethisphere for its commitment to advancing corporate integrity in meaningful ways and asks Erica to share how her organization backs this up with research, data from industry benchmarking and culture assessments, and the creation of a strong compliance community. Erica shares her origin story in ethics and compliance and provides key insights on building a legacy of ethical values ​​and business integrity.

Highlights include the history of creating value through compliance and how to avoid being just a cost, how to stay results-focused rather than activity-based, what we can learn from decades of data measuring culture, the critical role of managers in ethics and compliance, the importance of an employee-centered approach and treating employees as physical assets, and the power of community in compliance.

Erica is Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair at Ethisphere, the global leader in defining and advancing standards of ethical business practices that strengthen corporate character, market trust and business success. In this role, Ms. Salmon Byrne oversees the company’s product strategy and M&A initiatives while promoting Ethisphere’s founding ethos: Companies that focus on the long term, commit to doing business with integrity and invest in their stakeholder communities will outperform their competitors.

Erica also serves as Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), where she works with the BELA community to advance dialogue, collaboration, and best practices around ethics and governance. During her time at Ethisphere, Erica has held several positions including oversight of Ethisphere’s products and solutions, including data-driven program assessments; The Sphere, which provides benchmarking against peers and best practices, as well as expertise and related regulatory guidance; Ethical Culture Assessments; and the World’s Most Ethical Companies®. For more information about Ethisphere’s work, visit www.ethisphere.com

Erica is a successful speaker and is known throughout the ethics and compliance industry as a leader, educator, and advocate for ESG, values-based leadership, and corporate integrity. In 2022, she was recognized as a Modern Governance 100 Leader by governance firm Diligent. Erica has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fast Company, Forbes, SXSW, and various ethics and compliance publications and podcasts. Show less –