The best compliance programs don’t police the business, they earn its trust. In partnership with Workiva, Compliance Week profiles the practitioners and programs honored at the 2026 Excellence in Compliance Awards: six honorees across financial services, energy, healthcare, and consumer goods whose work is raising the standard for the entire field.
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Five Practical Lessons Learned at the 2026 Compliance Week National Conference
In this webcast, attendees will discover insights about compliance trends and receive practical tips to convert these insights into action.
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Compliance Week National Conference 2026 Photo Slideshow
Compliance Week’s National Conference is underway at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Compliance professionals, regulators, consultants, and academics across all industries are in attendance to learn what effective compliance looks like right now.
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James Clements named Chief Compliance Officer of the Year
Last year was an especially demanding one for James Clements’ compliance team at Carson Group, which started adopting artificial intelligence tools.
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PG&E’s Alex Vallejo Is Compliance Week’s 2026 Innovator of the Year Award Winner
Alex Vallejo joined Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) 17 days after a gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, California, killing eight people and destroying dozens of homes. The company faced scrutiny from local, state, and federal agencies, as well as losing trust with its customers. In his role, Vallejo helped to reimagine a tracking system […]
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Iberdrola wins 2026 Compliance Program of the Year
Over the past six years, Iberdrola–Europe’s largest electricity company–digitized the company’s compliance processes for its global footprint in 20 countries.
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Colgate-Palmolive’s Shelina Ajani wins Compliance Week’s Rising Star 2026
Shelina Ajani’s keen knowledge of ethics, management, and compliance inspired more than 500 managers at Colgate-Palmolive to embrace an ambitious ethics and compliance outreach program she created.
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Laura McNamara Awarded CW’s 2026 Compliance Mentor of the Year
Laura McNamara began her career in the healthcare industry as a front desk receptionist, a job that would serve as the first of many stepping stones, paving the path of her healthcare compliance journey.
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CW National: New DOJ policy based on partnership with corporate compliance, Duva says
Compliance officers, listen up: when trouble of a potential criminal nature hits your company, give the U.S. Department of Justice a call, which wants to be your partner in fighting corporate crime.
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2026 Excellence in Compliance Awards – Compliance Innovator of the Year finalists
The three finalists for Compliance Innovator of the Year have applied technology to improve compliance messaging and training; to enhance ethical decision making; and to resolve key compliance issues.
