As 2025 winds down and compliance priorities continue to evolve, how can teams adapt to meet organizational needs in a changing landscape?

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was created in 2011 to bring governments and civil society leaders together to “promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance,” through advancing national and local level policy reforms. Since then, the issues impacting transparency and good governance have expanded dramatically. To understand how the OGP and its members (currently 74 countries and 150 local governments) are approaching new challenges...

I am developing new content for my compliance team’s annual training, and we noticed from feedback on last year’s training that a quiz is no longer an effective way to test knowledge at the end of a module. Recent learning trends also emphasize short courses without a knowledge check. Would you recommend removing it? If so, how can we determine whether learners actually gained any knowledge?

In past decades, there have been a number of protest movements driven to a large extent by public anger about corruption and poor economic governance which brought down governments, including Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Ukraine’s EuroMaidan and the Tunisian Revolution. Recent years have seen mass protest movements in Asia in particular connected to economic grievances, such as the 2022 Aragalaya in Sri Lanka...

With the current geopolitical climate, developing a compliance training program is difficult, as compliance topics at the forefront continue to shift and evolve. How do I prepare for the coming year?

A CEO’s words on ethics and integrity matter. The CEO sets the tone, signals the company’s integrity priorities, and determines how employees understand the company’s culture. A CEO’s public speeches, online statements, and inspiring declarations signal leadership’s commitment to integrity. While CEOs are essential, they do not exist in a vacuum, they are one part of an integrity system.