Executive coach and former Chief Compliance Officer Amii Barnard-Bahn responds to your anonymous questions on some of the grayer areas compliance officers face, such as culture, hiring, training, and ethics. Click here to submit your own for inclusion in our next edition.
Q: I know that compliance works best when it works in conjunction with the business objectives of the company, but it’s one thing to say that and another thing entirely to put it into practice. I find that more times than not the things I end up focusing on are areas in which I am preventing someone from trying to reach a business objective in a way that technically breaks the rules we have in place. These are tough conversations. I don’t really have a question, just wondering how people in my shoes handle these types of things. – Anonymous, from automotive industry
