Board Level and Executive Management Training

Why Train This Population? 

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines specifically require training of board members and executive managers.  Companies must ensure that their board and executive management understand how to navigate through compliance and ethics issues and model-appropriate behavior. Executive managers must understand not only the issues that they may encounter in the C-Suite, but also the pressures corporate strategies place on rank-and-file employees and how those employees should handle that pressure.  

Course Content 

Our attorney-trainers (former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys and corporate counsel) develop and deliver compliance and ethics learning programs for the board and executive management.  First, our attorneys analyze your board members' and executives' training needs. Specifically, they examine your ethics code of conduct (including board-specific policies) and other relevant policies and look at factors such as your industry, the states where you operate, and the stakeholder expectations. We then provide you a recommendation on which topics to address in the training.  Finally, we work with you to develop the best strategy for delivery, evaluation and follow-up.

The program is custom built for your board and C-Suite needs. A typical program will address topics such as:

• Executive responsibilities to promote ethical and legal compliance
• Board and executive members' requirements to create an ethics and compliance program and to maintain the program according to the details set forth in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Conflicts of Interest (addressing common scenarios that board members and executive management may face)
• Duty to investigate allegations of unethical or illegal conduct
• Where to turn for help with questions

Instructional Design

Rather than giving a lecture about the importance of being ethical, our training addresses "gray area" scenarios that may occur in the real world.  We create scenarios that are relevant to your industry and to your specific company.

We recognize that your board members and executive managers' time is extremely valuable.  Therefore, our goal is to provide the information they need in a comprehensive buy concise manner.

Also, we suggest that our board training be video-taped so that we can make it available online for future board members and executive officials, or those who missed the initial training.

Instructors

Our board and executive level training courses are led by nationally-known attorneys, including the following:

Katrina Campbell, Esq.

Katrina Campbell is General Counsel of Global Compliance's Brightline Learning and Consulting Division.  She has extensive experience helping companies meet their compliance and ethics obligations. She has worked as an attorney with a national law firm and as in-house counsel for large corporations. Her work has included leading the corporate governance initiative for an in-house legal department and developing and delivering compliance training programs for legal counsel, human resources professionals, and other employees. Ms. Campbell is active with the American Bar Association's (ABA's) Labor & Employment Section as a speaker, writer, and advocate for corporate counsel involvement in the ABA.

Katrina Campbell is a graduate of Hampton University and Harvard Law School.

Steven A. Lauer, Esq.

Steven A. Lauer is Corporate Counsel at Global Compliance.  He has extensive experience helping clients establish and maintain effective corporate ethics and compliance programs, including more than 20 years serving in private practice and as Assistant General Counsel for the Prudential Insurance Company of America.  He has served as Executive Vice President, Deputy Editor and Deputy Publisher of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, a monthly journal for in-house attorneys. He is Vice Chair for Programs of the Corporate Counsel Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law.

Steven Lauer is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Georgetown University Law Center.

Andrew Foose Esq, and Michael Johnson, Esq.

Andrew Foose and Michael Johnson are the founders and Co-Presidents of Global Compliance's Brightline Learning and Consulting Division.  They are former senior trial attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice, where they were hired under the Attorney General's Honors Program. During their time with the Department of Justice, they investigated and litigated numerous cases against employers across the country. They brought one of the Department of Justice's first "pattern or practice" sexual harassment cases.

Mr. Foose and Mr. Johnson are recognized as among the country's leading experts on conducting lawful and effective internal investigations. In addition to serving as expert witnesses in cases challenging the adequacy of employer's investigation procedures, Mr. Foose and Mr. Johnson provide public and on-site seminars around the country on conducting internal investigations. They have provided investigative training on-site for organizations such as Boeing, Coca-Cola, the Department of Homeland Security, the EEOC, Lockheed Martin, and the World Bank.

The United Nations selected them to consult on the development of its sexual harassment policy and investigation procedures, and to provide investigative training to UN staff in New York and in the UN's peacekeeping missions in the Congo and Sierra Leone.

Andrew Foose is a graduate of Harvard University, Columbia University School of Law, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.

Michael Johnson is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.