Board time is scarce, attention is limited, and trust earned over years may be lost in moments. In this session, led by Grainger’s Nic Eichenseer, Vice President, Associate General Counsel & CECO, we’ll ground the CECO’s board engagement strategy in first principles: the board’s role in ethics and compliance and how CECOs can enable effective oversight. We’ll then focus on how to use board time intentionally—through sharper materials, smarter metrics, and more compelling narratives—to build trust and credibility, educate directors about the business, and ensure ethics and compliance discussions are impactful rather than box-checking exercises.
Board time is scarce, attention is limited, and trust earned over years may be lost in moments. In this session, led by Grainger’s Nic Eichenseer, Vice President, Associate General Counsel & CECO, we’ll ground the CECO’s board engagement strategy in first principles: the board’s role in ethics and compliance and how CECOs can enable effective oversight. We’ll then focus on how to use board time intentionally—through sharper materials, smarter metrics, and more compelling narratives—to build trust and credibility, educate directors about the business, and ensure ethics and compliance discussions are impactful rather than box-checking exercises.
Grounded in new research with the World’s Most Ethical Companies and board-level culture data, this hands-on session, led by Diligent experts Kira Ciccarelli and Neta Meidav and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne, helps senior compliance leaders pinpoint which board behaviors most strongly influence ethical culture—and how to embed those practices in their own organizations.
It’s 2026, and teams continue to remain under pressure to justify spend, demonstrate impact, and respond to increasingly sophisticated questions from boards and regulators. Activity metrics alone are no longer enough, leaders are being asked to provide assurance.
This interactive 90-min workshop explores how E&C leaders can translate program activity into defensible, decision-ready insights that resonate with boards and executive leadership. Participants will examine:
- What boards and executive leadership actually care about
- Where most E&C reporting falls short
- The importance of benchmarking and program assessment data
- How to create dashboards, and clear executive narratives
When meeting with the Board of Directors, you often have little time to share the progress of your program or the power of its impact. Program initiatives can be complex and long term, with opportunities to inform the Board often short in duration and infrequent. This is where the power of data comes in.
In this session, learn how companies are using data to drive their story and create engaging board presentations and materials, including how to take data and create a narrative around it, highlighting your program’s impact through data, and how to effectively share KPIs and
initiative outcomes.
Board time is scarce, attention is limited, and trust earned over years may be lost in moments. In this session, led by Grainger’s Nic Eichenseer, Vice President, Associate General Counsel & CECO, we’ll ground the CECO’s board engagement strategy in first principles: the board’s role in ethics and compliance and how CECOs can enable effective oversight. We’ll then focus on how to use board time intentionally—through sharper materials, smarter metrics, and more compelling narratives—to build trust and credibility, educate directors about the business, and ensure ethics and compliance discussions are impactful rather than box-checking exercises.
Board time is scarce, attention is limited, and trust earned over years may be lost in moments. In this session, led by Grainger’s Nic Eichenseer, Vice President, Associate General Counsel & CECO, we’ll ground the CECO’s board engagement strategy in first principles: the board’s role in ethics and compliance and how CECOs can enable effective oversight. We’ll then focus on how to use board time intentionally—through sharper materials, smarter metrics, and more compelling narratives—to build trust and credibility, educate directors about the business, and ensure ethics and compliance discussions are impactful rather than box-checking exercises.
When meeting with the Board of Directors, you often have little time to share the progress of your program or the power of its impact. Program initiatives can be complex and long term, with opportunities to inform the Board often short in duration and infrequent. This is where the power of data comes in.
In this session, learn how companies are using data to drive their story and create engaging board presentations and materials, including how to take data and create a narrative around it, highlighting your program’s impact through data, and how to effectively share KPIs and
initiative outcomes.
It’s 2026, and teams continue to remain under pressure to justify spend, demonstrate impact, and respond to increasingly sophisticated questions from boards and regulators. Activity metrics alone are no longer enough, leaders are being asked to provide assurance.
This interactive 90-min workshop explores how E&C leaders can translate program activity into defensible, decision-ready insights that resonate with boards and executive leadership. Participants will examine:
- What boards and executive leadership actually care about
- Where most E&C reporting falls short
- The importance of benchmarking and program assessment data
- How to create dashboards, and clear executive narratives
Grounded in new research with the World’s Most Ethical Companies and board-level culture data, this hands-on session, led by Diligent experts Kira Ciccarelli and Neta Meidav and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon Byrne, helps senior compliance leaders pinpoint which board behaviors most strongly influence ethical culture—and how to embed those practices in their own organizations.