MARCH 24 | Innovation Strategies to Transform Your E&C Program
E&C programs face unprecedented challenges in today’s business environment. One way to meet those challenges is to borrow powerful innovation tools and strategies that have been used to develop blockbusting products and services that we see and use in the marketplace every day. This best practice forum will introduce a robust tool kit of practical innovation strategies and techniques that unlock and build on the best ideas.
ECI’s March Best Practice Forum will focus on the importance of:
- Having an innovation mindset;
- Leveraging practical and easily learned techniques and tools from the field of user-centric design;
- Becoming familiar with and using virtual collaboration tools; and
- In addition to resourcing, selling ideas and solutions effectively to ensure success.
Speakers
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Alicia OlmsteadGlobal Ethics & Compliance Consultant, Dell Inc.Alicia Olmstead is a Global Ethics & Compliance Consultant for Dell Technologies where she oversees the Global Ethics Program which includes conflicts of interest, gifts & hospitality, anti-retaliation and speaking up. Before working for Dell, Alicia was a Senior Ethics Program Advisor at USAA and the Assistant Integrity Officer for the City of Austin in Austin, Texas. Her 14 years of experience spans both public and private sector and reaches into all facets of ethics programming. She created the City of Austin’s first fully developed ethics program, and at USAA she organized the first company-wide Ethics & Compliance Event and designed an award winning-ethics training module. Alicia has had the pleasure of working for two World’s Most Ethical Companies and contributes regularly to industry conferences and working groups. She holds an M.S. in Organizational Leadership & Ethics from St. Edward’s University and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University. Alicia lives in San Antonio, TX with her husband and two sons.
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Carsten TamsSenior Advisor at ECI; Consultant, Speaker & Facilitator at Emagence LLCCarsten is a Senior Advisor at ECI. He is also an ethics consultant, speaker and facilitator at Emagence LLC. In his consulting work, Carsten helps companies develop more effective ethics and compliance programs. He applies proven management concepts and insights from behavioral science to the design of ethics codes, trainings or websites, resulting in measurably improved program engagement.
As a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Carsten shares with participants how they can apply breakthrough models from design thinking, nudging or the science of motivation to create winning ethics and compliance programs that inspire employees and create a positive ethical culture.
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Earnie BroughtonSenior Advisor, Ethics & Compliance InitiativeEarnie Broughton is Senior Advisor to the Ethics & Compliance Initiative. He previously served as Director of the M.B.A. and Executive Education programs in the Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio from 2011 to 2016. Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Earnie served as Executive Director, Ethics Program Coordinator, for United Services Automobile Association (USAA) from 2000 to 2011. He has an additional 20 years’ experience in Human Resources and Consumer Lending executive management in the financial services sector.
Earnie has served in a variety of leadership roles in the Ethics and Compliance Association and the ECI Fellows Program over the past 20 years and is Co-founder and Chairman of the Greater San Antonio Ethics and Compliance Roundtable. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Texas State University, a Master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from St. Mary’s University and certification as a Leadership Professional in Ethics and Compliance through the ECI.
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Hemma R. LomaxSenior Corporate Counsel, Integrity and Compliance, Snap, Inc.Dr. Hemma R. Lomax is a passionate ethics and compliance professional who is intrigued by the role of integrity in the context of corporate social responsibility. She is a senior corporate counsel in the Integrity & Compliance team at Snap, Inc. Hemma formerly worked in a similar role in the Global Ethics and Compliance Management team at the Walt Disney Company. Hemma has a passion for designing innovative global compliance programs and is a fan of co-creative design, behavioural science, and coaching for compliance. She is piloting a Kind Business Ambassador Program at Snap. Prior to moving in-house, Hemma served for just over a decade prosecuting financial fraud and corruption with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Hemma is also a British trained barrister (trial attorney) and has previously worked as Parliamentary Counsel for the UK government and as an advisor at the United Nations for the government of Guyana. Hemma is a strong advocate for integrity at work, active bystandership and diversity, equity, and inclusion, and she has a Ph.D in human rights and the laws of war. She lives in California with her husband and her two daughters.
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Suzanne MiltonChief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Virginia Commonwealth UniversitySuzanne Milton, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Virginia Commonwealth University, is an experienced ethics and compliance attorney and executive with extensive expertise in ethics and compliance program design and implementation, enterprise risk assessment, investigations, compliance monitoring, and code of conduct and diversity/inclusion training. Most recently, Ms. Milton served as Vice President, Ethics and Compliance, at US Foods, Inc., a public broadline food and food distribution company that serves independent restaurant and institutional customers across the United States, providing over 350,000 products across more than 80 locations and employing over 25,000 people. Prior to joining US Foods, Ms. Milton was Manager, Ethics and Compliance, Boeing International, at the Boeing Company, responsible for the execution and delivery of Boeing’s ethics and compliance program internationally through a team of advisors located in five regions globally. Ms. Milton began her career in the executive branch of the U.S. government, serving as an executive in Human Resources at the Transportation Security Administration and an executive in both Human Resources and Legal at the U.S. Postal Service. She is a graduate of Harvard University, cum laude, in History and Literature, and received her JD from the University of Texas School of Law. She serves on the Board of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, the premier ethics and compliance research and member organization in the U.S., as well as InterAct Story Theatre, a nonprofit in Wheaton, Maryland dedicated to bringing interactive arts education to students and teachers K-12. She also serves as a volunteer independent member of the Ethics Committee for USA Weightlifting. Suzanne resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with her family and is an avid reader and rower.
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Thomas R. FoxFounder, The Compliance Podcast NetworkThomas R. Fox —the Compliance Evangelist® —is literally the guy who wrote the book on compliance with his seminal one volume book “The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition” which will be published by LexisNexis in April 2020. Additionally, Tom has authored 19 books on business leadership, compliance and ethics and corporate governance, including the international best-sellers “Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics” and “Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act” as well as his award-winning series Fox on Compliance.
Tom leads the social media discussion on compliance with his award-winning blog, The FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog and is the Voice of Compliance, having founded the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network. He is also a member of the C-Suite Radio Network. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com.
