Back for its fourth year, Compliance Week’s “Excellence in Compliance Awards” honor standout individuals and companies for their efforts in the areas of ethics and compliance.

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Nominations are open for this year’s awards, which will recognize the following:

  • Chief Compliance Officer or Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of the Year
  • Compliance Program of the Year (Company)
  • Lifetime Achievement in Compliance
  • Compliance Innovator of the Year
  • Rising Star in Compliance
  • Compliance Mentor of the Year

The nomination deadline closed March 31. A CW panel will identify finalists in each of the categories besides Lifetime Achievement. For that category, no finalists will be selected—only a winner.

This person—a longtime compliance practitioner who has upheld the core principles of ethics and leadership throughout his or her career—will be profiled in our summer edition of Compliance Week magazine.

Finalists in each category will be named in April, and winners will be recognized at our National Conference in Washington, D.C. from May 15-17. Each winner will be interviewed by CW. Winners will not be required to attend the National Conference to receive their award.

Past winners include compliance practitioners from U.S. Steel, FedEx, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Disney, and more. Check out our awards site for more information.

About each award

The CCO/CECO of the Year will be awarded to the practitioner who has best demonstrated the values of leadership, effectiveness, collaboration, communication, constructiveness, and vision at his or her organization. Special attention will be paid to CCOs/CECOs that have met the unique challenges posed by recent regulatory developments in areas including ESG, AML, data privacy, cybersecurity, sanctions, supply chain, and more.

For Compliance Program of the Year, we’re looking for best-in-class programs that can show measurable successes, demonstrate cultural impact across the company, and tell a story that ethics and compliance are truly baked into the decision-making process for the organization.

The Innovator of the Year recognition will go to an in-house practitioner who has taken an outside-the-box approach to solving a complex problem or made the most out of available resources.

Rising Star in Compliance will go to an up-and-comer in the business who has shown the skills and ethics-first leadership needed to be a next-generation CCO. Finalists for our Mentor of the Year honor will be people who have provided needed guidance and leadership to peers or subordinates for the betterment of a particular organization’s compliance program or the profession at large.

The fine print

Extra consideration will be paid to nominations that highlight accomplishments by the nominee in the past year.

Members of our “Top Minds” Classes from 2016-19 are eligible for “Excellence in Compliance Awards” as well.

People can be nominated in more than one category. There is no cost associated with submitting a nomination.

Questions regarding the “Excellence in Compliance Awards” can be directed to editor@complianceweek.com.

Kyle Brasseur was Editor in Chief of Compliance Week from 2021-24.View full Profile

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