S4E4 | Critical Moment of Truth for Trust: Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc on Race, COVID, Ethics

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc, compliance executive, board member, entrepreneur, and author, discusses with LRN’s Ben DiPietro the risks and opportunities companies face as they address issues of racial injustice, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"We have businesses that are having to decide between the health and safety of their workers, or the well-being, quote unquote, of their shareholders, to keep the business running. This, I think, is almost unprecedented in terms of its massive scale.”

- Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc

 

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc is CEO and founder of GEC Risk Advisory, and is a global governance, risk, ESG, ethics, cyber, and crisis strategist who works with a broad cross-section of business, nonprofits, and government agencies. Since 2017, she has served as the independent ethics advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.

 

Dr. Bonime-Blanc spent two decades as a C-suite global corporate executive at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG, overseeing legal; governance; risk; ethics; corporate responsibility; crisis management; compliance; audit; information security; and environmental health and safety, among other functions. She began her career as an international corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb.

 

She is an extensively published author of many articles and several books, including her latest, “Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value,” which earlier this year debuted as an Amazon No. 1 Hot Release in business ethics and game theory.

 

What You’ll Learn on This Episode:

 

[1:34] What sparked Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc interest in ethics and compliance and how has her career path led to her current role?

 

[4:28] What should companies do in order to turn their words about social justice into action?

 

[6:33] How should companies work with police departments to bring about the change they would like to see?

 

[8:14] What are some of the lessons learned that Dr. Bonime-Blanc is seeing in the organization she is working with?

 

[10:27] What are some things that Dr. Bonime-Blanc recommends that businesses to to keep their employees safe during the pandemic?

 

[12:01] What do companies do to navigate the privacy issues that come from monitoring their employees for Covid?

 

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