The Compliance Observatory of the Elecnor Foundation and the IE Foundation is promoting a podcast channel to deal with the challenges for companies regarding corruption and sustainability

The channel ‘Compliance Matters: We care about a sustainable future’ is an initiative designed to share knowledge that will help SMEs to implement best practices in ethics, anti-corruption and sustainability

The IE-ELECNOR Observatory on Sustainable Compliance Cultures, promoted by the Elecnor Foundation and the IE Foundation, with the collaboration of Eversheds Sutherland, has set up ‘Compliance Matters: We care about a sustainable future’, a podcast channel directed by Enrique Aznar, Academic Director of the Observatory, which deals with the situation of the Compliance Officer from the perspective of prominent executives, experts and business leaders.

The initiative is being developed in a context where managing risks and opportunities, creating long-term value and communicating with an impact have become the cornerstones for companies in achieving sustainability.

The channel ‘Compliance Matters’, available on the Observatory website as a video-podcast and on the main platforms too (such as Spotify, Ivoox y Google Podcast), is part of this institution’s aim to strengthen its position as a source of knowledge on this subject, focussing especially on SMEs. The complexity of implementing best practices is even greater for smaller companies, who have to deal with regulations using more limited structures.

According to a recent report drawn up by the Observatory, policies have little effect on values and the role of the leader is essential in influencing employees. In line with this is Marisa Tendero, Non Executive Chairwoman and ex Global CEO of Noabrands, who explains that “it is necessary to act from a position of conscious leadership, which motivates, which inspires and which speaks using the word we and not the word I. This conscious leadership and a team with good communication which feels proud of the company it works for, create a solid foundation.” And she warns, “Neither a leader on their own nor a board of directors on their own will achieve anything. In a team without values it is very difficult to retain talent, to progress.”

With this new channel, the Observatory aims to gather knowledge from leading companies to encourage the implementation of a culture of Sustainable Compliance in small and medium-sized companies, approaching challenges and possible solutions and tools through testimonies from professionals with wide experience.