Lyndon Group’s ethics and compliance practice provides our clients the resources needed to meet their goals of enhancing entity level controls or the “tone at the top”. Organizations are motivated to implement and/or improve their ethics and compliance programs for various reasons – from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to stakeholder pressure. Whatever the reason, Lyndon Group’s team of experienced governance professionals tailor programs that address client’s compliance risks and business needs. Whether clients are implementing a new program, initiating key elements, or measuring performance of existing processes, Lyndon Group can assist in an effective and efficient manner.

We assess client’s processes to ensure they are operating within the various levels of applicable laws and regulations. Lyndon Group also measures the effectiveness of an organization’s monitoring programs to evaluate a client’s adherence to other commitments such as Code of Ethics/Conduct, internal policies, and contractual obligations.

Lyndon Group designs and implements repeatable processes and procedures to ensure that management is made aware when the organization is getting close to, or crossing, a “boundary.” All of this enhances the corporate culture by reducing errors and losses and optimizing return on investment.

We also provide clients with a one time and/or periodic evaluation of an organization’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) capabilities. Lyndon Group is an active member of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG). We share OCEG’s view that periodic evaluations are an essential element and a key control that benefits stakeholders, the board and others with organizational oversight responsibilities.

As part of an evaluation, or as separate projects, we also provide resources in these areas:

Ethics and Compliance Risk Assessments

• Identifying the likelihood and impact of ethics and compliance risks, serving as a guide for resource allocation and ensuring that appropriate responses and controls are established.
  

Code of Ethics/Conduct

• We lead and/or direct a collaborative effort to create a document that fits the organization’s needs and culture, implemented with senior management’s backing, and used to inspire the “right” behaviors and attitudes.
  

Whistleblower Hotlines/Helplines

• A valuable tool to help prevent and detect fraud, criminal conduct, policy violations, and/or questionable conduct, and as a means for employees and other stakeholders to communicate other issues/concerns with the organization.

Pre-Employment Screening Programs

• Implementing and documenting programs focused on helping organizations to select and promote employees and leaders who have a reputation for integrity and competence.
  

Performance Measurement

• Gauging your progress in achieving objectives and learning whether the tactics employed are contributing to the success of the business.
  

Perception Surveys

• Surveying employees, management and stakeholders periodically to help the organization understand and enhance the corporate climate to assist in creating a culture that fosters open discussion of ethical concerns and integrates the application of ethical principles in the decision-making process.

Policies and Procedures

• We evaluate the methodology for policy and procedure development, implementation and management of organizational polices and procedures, including assessing whether policies are designed and operating as intended.

Conflicts of Interest (COI)

• We will assess an organization’s conflict of interest culture to ensure interrelationships with vendors, customers, service providers and others are properly disclosed and managed. This includes reviewing existing COI-related policies and procedures, disclosures, waivers, charitable donations, volunteer programs as well as benchmarking.

Contact us today to learn how we can help your organization.