2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference

1. Willful Blindness - Why We Fail to See What We Need to See

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | February 25, 2022 

   • Even though each of us may hear the same directions or see the same picture, our brains will process and filter the information differently. These differences can cause us to misinterpret direction, leading to unethical behavior and actions

   • Have you ever said something that you regretted? Every one of us has, but did you notice how quickly your brain was able to rationalize what you said? Rationalization occurs swiftly and frequently, allowing you to justify things you ordinarily wouldn't

   • Whenever you see a problem, you try to frame it in order to diagnose what to do. What happens when you frame the problem incorrectly? By creating different frames, you can increase ethicality by considering decision alternatives with different frames

2. Transform Your Policies: A Case Study

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | February 25, 2022 

   • Learn how to fundamentally change your approach to policy management

   • Dig into a case study of one company's mandate to substantially decrease the number of its policies

   • Learn strategies for evaluating your existing policy inventory and policy management

3. Third Party Due Diligence: How to Design an Effective Due Diligence Program and How to Carry It Out in Practice

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | February 25, 2022 

   • Discuss the key aspects of a due diligence program

   • Go through a case study on due diligence

   • Discuss how to measure and calibrate risk in third-party relationships

4. The Risks in Assessing Risk - Alaska Regional

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | March 02, 2022 

   • We'll look at behavioral research that shows how bad humans can be at assessing risk.

   • Interactive segments will test the audience's ability to assess risk and probability.

   • Finally, this session will show how to avoid getting caught in the most common traps

5. Policies for Humans That Humans Won't Hate

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | February 25, 2022 

   • The DOJ expects organizations to have "policies and procedures that give both content and effect to ethical norms and that address and aim to reduce risks identified by the company as part of its risk assessment process"

   • Overly lawyered policies that simply reiterate the law and/or tell employees what they cannot do (rather than what they actually can do) are neither effective nor employee centric

   • Learn tips, tricks, and strategies to ensure that your policies will help your employees act and behave in the desired way. No employee is going to love your compliance policies, but we can write policies for humans, in a human way, that humans won't hate

6. Practical Guidance for Conducting a Compliance Risk Assessment

   2022 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | February 25, 2022 

   • How to build your risk taxonomy

   • Designing your rating scale

   • Conducting the assessment

   • Reporting on risk assessment results