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. Definitely an anonymous question here: I am a compliance department of one, and I’m afraid our company made some mistakes recently that I need to report. I haven’t taken it to the board or the C-suite yet … what’s the best way you have found to break bad news to important, powerful people? —Anonymous