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: Between Trump calling out a White House whistleblower and reports that the SEC wants to ease its own whistleblower protections, I can see where potential whistleblowers might be more skittish than ever about coming forward. That said, they’ve never been more important. What can a company do to demonstrate that there will be no retaliation for whistleblowing? It’s one thing to say it, but without something more tangible it just feels like lip service. Are there any best practices I can show people that whistleblowers really will be protected at my company.
