A content hub and weekly newsletter providing practical guidance, expert insights, and diverse perspectives to help compliance and ethics professionals strengthen programs and navigate complex risks.
Welcome to Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. This website and our growing weekly newsletter are dedicated to helping compliance and ethics professionals navigate a complex and evolving field and deliver success in their organizations.
Our newsletter is published weekly on LinkedIn and is also available by email subscription. By subscribing, you can stay up to date on trends, insights, practical guidance, and perspectives from a range of experienced professionals in our field.
Our Mission: To contribute to the compliance & ethics profession, to champion compliance & ethics professionals, and to help them do their difficult jobs.
What we are: We are a weekly newsletter and online resource addressing all types of compliance & ethics issues and questions that arise in organizations anywhere in the world. This includes all industries, all compliance & ethics risks, and all the steps that make up a credible and effective compliance & ethics program. We seek to reflect, celebrate, and champion the broad and diverse global compliance & ethics community, including the diversity of people, cultures, experiences, and viewpoints within it. Our newsletter serves as a platform to share different perspectives with a global audience and to advance thoughtful discussion about the challenges facing the profession.
Public policy: We do not engage in partisan politics. We do promote compliance & ethics in all contexts, including supporting government actions that recognize and encourage effective compliance & ethics programs, and advocating for changes where policies may undercut compliance & ethics efforts.
Ask us about compliance: We are open to receiving questions about the field and will seek to provide practical answers to questions we believe would be valuable for our readers. We do not provide legal opinions, legal advice, or interpretations of substantive law through this newsletter.
We speak as individuals: Each editor and author speaks for her or himself personally, and not for any organization with which they may be affiliated or for each other.
Our contributors: We regularly feature contributions from experienced compliance and ethics professionals who share practical insights, program strategies, and perspectives that advance the field. In addition to our editorial team, we welcome submissions from new voices across the profession. We do not claim exclusive rights to our content, but we ask that our role as the source be credited when material is republished. Submissions must be in final, publishable form. Because we publish weekly, there is no formal submission deadline. All content is subject to editorial review and judgment.
Just call us this: Sorry, we do not have a cool acronym. But for short form, “Ideas & Answers” is fine.
No submission deadlines: Because we publish weekly, there is no formal submission deadline. All content is subject to editorial review and judgment.
Our Editors: Adam Balfour, Jeff Kaplan, Joe Murphy & Rebecca Walker
How to reach us:
Adam – human@ethicsandcomplianceforhumans.com / Linkedin
Jeff – jkaplan@kaplanwalker.com / Linkedin
Joe – jemurphy5730@gmail.com / Linkedin
Rebecca – rwalker@kaplanwalker.com / Linkedin
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