Publication

Board oversight of ethics, compliance, and culture

April 2021

Boards recognize that ethics, compliance, and culture are clearly linked to business results and long-term value. Yet providing effective oversight in these areas can be difficult. Episodes of misconduct or pockets of unhealthy culture can escape senior leaders’ attention and threaten to erupt into crisis.

During an April 7 virtual meeting, members of the Lead Director Network (LDN) were joined by David Greenberg, senior advisor at LRN, former chief ethics and compliance officer of Altria Group and member of the board of directors of International Seaways, and Julie Kane, former chief ethics and compliance officer at Pacific Gas & Electric and a director at SIGA Technologies, for a discussion of board oversight of ethics, compliance, and culture.