Professional Certificate in Corporate Compliance & Ethics

What you will be able to do

• Explain what makes a compliance program effective to a regulator's standard
• Write a code of conduct and policy architecture people actually follow
• Run a compliance risk assessment and tier third-party due diligence
• Build training, communications and a speak-up culture that works
• Monitor, audit and report program effectiveness to the board

What is inside

6 modules, 30 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz and most carry an assignment.

1. 01

   Why Compliance Programs Exist

   The business case for a compliance program, the seven elements of an effective program drawn from the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the three questions a prosecutor asks when judging whether a program is real, the compliance officer role and what independence actually requires, how compliance differs from legal, internal audit, and risk, and the regulatory map a freight company has to live inside. Taught through Ironbridge Logistics, a fictional 2,000-employee freight and logistics company operating in the United States and the European Union.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

2. 02

   Code of Conduct and Policy Architecture

   How to build a code of conduct people actually read, a policy hierarchy with real owners, rules written for behavior instead of the shelf, and a global framework that survives the trip across borders. Covers approvals, exceptions and waivers, rollout and attestation, and the maintenance discipline that keeps a policy library alive. Taught through Ironbridge Logistics, a 2,000-employee freight and logistics company operating in the United States and the European Union.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

3. 03

   Compliance Risk Assessment and Third Parties

   How to run a compliance risk assessment end to end: building the risk inventory, writing risk statements that can actually be assessed, rating likelihood and impact without guessing, scoring control effectiveness, and turning a ranked list into a funded action plan. Bribery and corruption is the worked example, taught through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act, and then carried into the place the risk actually lives: agents, customs brokers, port agents and carriers, with due diligence tiers, red flags and escalation, the contract clauses that matter, and the monitoring that keeps a file honest after onboarding. Taught through Ironbridge Logistics, a 2,000 employee freight and logistics company operating in the United States and the European Union.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

4. 04

   Training, Communications and Culture

   How to turn a compliance program into behavior people actually exhibit at 5am on a loading dock: role-based training built from the risk assessment, measurement that goes beyond completion rates, communications that keep ethics visible all year, middle managers equipped to carry the message, and a speak-up culture where tone from the top is proved by decisions rather than posters. Taught through Ironbridge Logistics, a 2,000-employee freight and logistics company operating in the United States and the European Union.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

5. 05

   Reporting Channels, Investigations and Non-Retaliation

   How to build reporting channels employees actually use, triage and manage cases with discipline, plan and run a defensible corporate investigation, work with legal and privilege, find root causes, apply discipline consistently, and keep the non-retaliation promise in a way people can see. Taught through Ironbridge Logistics, a 2,000-employee freight and logistics company operating in the United States and the European Union.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

6. 06

   Monitoring, Auditing and Program Effectiveness

   How Ironbridge Logistics proves its compliance program actually works. You will separate monitoring from auditing, build a monitoring plan that traces line by line to the risk assessment, learn compliance data analytics at a concepts level using expense outliers and third-party payments, run an effectiveness review with a maturity model that does not flatter you, write a board report an audit committee will read, and close the improvement loop so findings turn into changed controls. This module carries the course capstone.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions · assignment