The 158-hour certificate programme is built on six pillars:
MODULE 1 : COMPLIANCE TOOLKIT - Managing business ethics and compliance
- Fundamentals of business ethics and compliance management
- Governance models, in a multidisciplinary approach
- Risk management: mapping, review and reporting
- Codes of conduct, education, whistleblowing
- Embedding controls in business activities
MODULE 2 : CULTURE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - Organizational culture, ethical leadership, and CSR management
- Key components and tools to establish a responsible culture
- Understanding CSR theories and stakeholder approaches
- Mechanisms to foster ethical performance
- Growing an ethical culture with employees
- Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
MODULE 3 : MONITORING AND AUDIT - Monitoring, Audit, Internal and external investigations
- Knowing what to do if the company is subject to external by investigations by regulators
- Leading internal investigation's reporting, credibility and continuous improvement
- Embedding ethics and compliance in the audit programme
- Managing interfaces with management, audit and other functions
- Monitoring business partners (joint ventures, supply chains)
MODULE 4 : REGULATORY COMPLIANCE - Conferences and seminars on regulatory compliance topics
- Accountability of the compliance function
- Anticorruption, Conflicts of Interests, Money Laundering
- Competition laws (Antitrust), Export control
- Human Rights, Data privacy
MODULE 5 : CASE STUDIES - Resolving complex business dilemmas
- Case studies to be prepared and solved in small teams
- Resolution of critical business decisions
- Dealing with multiple and sometime conflicting stakeholder decisions
- Each team will prepare a four-hour session to present lessons learned from previous modules
MODULE 6 : INDIVIDUAL PAPER - Final paper and certification
- Each paper will deal with a challenging business decision or the implementation of one of the frameworks learned.
- An alternative approach may feature an in-depth analysis of a specific ethical dilemma.
- A paper of about 30 pages is expected and will lead to the final certification
