Continuing with our webinar series on all-things GRC, our next session will take a look at whistleblowing, its definition, its main challenges, and how your organisation can better prepare to handle such cases and make it safer for your team members to share their concerns with their managers.
So make sure you join us on Wednesday, November 23 at 2:00 pm UK time for a comprehensive and hopefully educational overview of this practice and its minutiae.
Questions to Be Discussed
Some of the questions to be tackled by our panel include:
- What exactly is whistleblowing?
- What are some of the challenges individuals face when they want to blow the whistle?
- What are some of the factors that would encourage an individual to come forward and blow the whistle? Do reward systems for whistleblowing actually work?
- What are governments in the EU doing to better protect whistle-blowers? Are there any specific regulations or laws that stand out?
- What should organisations do to protect whistle-blowers?
- What’s the role of technology in whistleblowing?
- Are there any interesting whistleblowing case studies that you’d like to share with us?
- How do you see whistleblowing evolving into the future? Will it become easier to do or will it retreat?
- And plenty more!
Hope to have you with us!
Our Whistleblowing Expert
Sarah Afshari, Founder & Managing Director, DISS-CO, Germany
Sarah Afshari is the founder & Managing Director of DISS-CO, a legal tech and Compliance-as-a-Service company. She is criminologist, business economist & certified Data Protection Officer and has more than 18 years of experience in combating white-collar crime. During her carrier, she was responsible for international investigations and compliance audits, detecting damages amounting to 1b $. Sarah founded DISS-CO to offer SMEs and corporates a modular and easy-to-use compliance SaaS. The enterprise solution offers internationally operating companies the most flexible and secure solution that reduces compliance costs and creates efficient project and task management.
Steve Young, CEO, Association of Corporate Investigators, UK
Steve served 20 years in UK law enforcement investigating economic crime specialising in the pro-active investigation of Banking Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, Whistleblowing and Money Laundering. This was followed by 6 years at Citigroup Inc. as EMEA Regional Director of Investigations, and 8 years as Barclays Bank Plc, Global Head of Investigations for Investment Banking & Wealth Management. Currently Head of Fraud & Investigations in Group Compliance at Lombard Odier, based in Geneva. To date, 40 years of international economic crime experience in both a law enforcement and corporate environment.
