By Adam Turteltaub
adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org
I spent last week in São Paulo, Brazil at our Academy there. It was the third year in a row in which the Academy was sold out, and I mean completely sold out. We even had eleven people on the waiting list.
At the conclusion of the Academy, more than seventy people sat for the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professionals-International (CCEP-I)® exam. It was the largest group to take the exam at an Academy anywhere in the world. Then on Friday, we had our first regional meeting in São Paulo, heck, our first regional conference anywhere outside the US.
The week was amazing, not just because of the number of people participating but because of the enthusiasm for compliance programs. In a country fraught with a major corruption scandal, a President who is being tried in their Senate, and a former President facing corruption charges, compliance was seen as a way forward, as a way to help turn the economy and even culture around.
It was a good reminder that compliance does more than keep companies out of trouble. It is also a way to safeguard business and society as a whole.
And that’s a career benefit few other jobs can claim.
I can’t wait to go back next August.
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