How to participate in the roundtables

Break out into smaller groups to join the roundtables for discussions among your peers on new, innovative compliance successes, lessons learned, and experience shared. Nothing if of the table! Bring your ideas, get feedback, benchmark and network. Each roundtable has a focus topic, a host or co-host facilitator and is scheduled to 45 minutes to allow up to three rounds.

CRDT #1 Building your Brand and Confidence

Elizabeth Wilks-Wood
Vice President Compliance
Carlsberg Group, Denmark
Past WICA Winner

• The connection between your personal brand, your skills and achievements and your confidence
• Identifying the strong skills, you want to project in the office and matching your job performance to meet this goal
• Learning how to be – perceived as – confident and cultivating that quality
• Tips to getting recognised as a credible candidate for internal promotion
• Effectively using women’s networks and personal networks to help achieve your career aspirations
• How to promote yourself in a positive and constructive way
• How do you take the next step from managed to manager and from senior management to the board?

CRDT #2 Bridging the Generational Gaps: Working Across the Divide to Move Everyone Forward – How to maximise assets and overcome challenges

• Overcoming stereotypes for your generation and learning what connects us all
• Distinguishing between being a remarkable boss and being a remarkable leader
• Mastering communication skills at any level
• Learning each generation’s strengths and weaknesses
• Leveraging the strengths of your group to move all women forward
• Making millennials an asset in the workplace

CRDT #3 Hiring Compliance Talents and Retaining Women in the Workplace

Michelle Dyer
Vice President – Risk & Compliance
EMEA, Corporate Development & Responsible Business
American Express Global Business Travel, UK

• Where to find the pool of talent for recruitment
• Techniques to identify the best people to carry out the compliance role successfully
• Identifying the leadership qualities to look for when developing your compliance team
• What core skills are involved?
• Unravelling the psychology behind what makes an individual more ethical than others
• To find the specialists in compliance vs. to train a candidate from scratch
• Giving women crucial tools to use to be successful and keep moving their careers forward
• Is mentorship, coaching, sponsorships or other work-life balance schemes enough to retain female talent in the workplace? If not, what else?

CRDT #4 Reducing Workplace Discriminations: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Retaliation, Bullying, and Related Challenges

Maja de Vibe
Senior Vice President Corporate Responsibility and Compliance
Chief Compliance Officer
Statkraft

Nilay Akgerman, PhD
Head of Ethics & Integrity, International Region
LivaNova PLC

• How effective are the policies companies have in place to prevent discrimination in the workplace?
• How to overturn the “culture of silence” and/or toxicity and embrace a culture of open communication, reporting and accountability
• Defining and providing relevant training on what is “consent”, “bullying” and subtle threats…
• How equipped are the investigators to avoid poor investigations on sexual harassment, retaliation or bullying?
• Common elements and imbalances that can influence the investigation
• Processes in place to support and believe complainant as well as reducing the potential negative impact of social media pressure on the respondent
• Cases of retaliation – how to manage the potential backlash of speaking up, blowing the whistle…

CRDT #5 The Faces of Unconscious Gender Bias: How Organisations are Addressing and Controlling the Risks Posed by Discriminations in the Workplace

• Why does unconscious bias still matter today?
• Where are problems and challenges being identified?
• Recognising unconscious gender bias that surrounds us to take the next steps in tearing it down
• How to raise awareness of biases and train staff to overcome unintentional gender prejudice
• Tackling unconscious gender bias from management including women
• Understanding what the senior executives look for when shortlisting for promotions
• Steps you can take to challenge discrimination
• Tips and techniques to ensure women receive the same respect and reward in the workplace as their male colleagues

CRDT #6 Avoiding a Car Crash in Your Third-Party Due Diligence Programme

Kristy Grant-Hart
Chief Executive Officer
Spark Compliance, UK
WICA Nominee

• How to deal with the most critical part of your program – scope
• How to handle policies and procedures in a sane way
• How to manage the business and create partnerships for tackling red flags
• How to deal with attestations, due diligence questionnaires and nasty fights over “critical” third parties that refuse to participate
• The Eight Commandments of a successful due diligence program

You don’t want to miss this information-packed program that will help you take your due diligence program to the next level in an integrated way.