INTEGRITY

Strengthening integrity within the company is an important prerequisite for avoiding compliance violations and improving the company’s resilience.

Compliance management systems have established themselves as an integral part of corporate organizations in many medium-sized and large companies. A clear objective here is compliance with applicable laws and protection against fraud and reputational risks. Nevertheless, the question of the extent to which companies want to or should participate in socio-political developments when interpreting the terms “integrity” or “ethics” often remains unresolved. The expectations of the public, politicians, investors, management, employees and other stakeholders towards companies can also diverge significantly. In this context, creating and maintaining a value-based corporate culture is a challenging task for companies, management and compliance officers.

In addition to systems and processes, a company’s culture is therefore crucial to how employees and managers behave in difficult situations.

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The working group deals with the definition & with the Strengthening integrity in companies, looking at both systematic integrity management and individual practical measures that promote integrity in companies. The aim of the working group is to therefore, practical to develop solutions and recommendations as well as guidelines for the management of integrity. In addition, the meetings of the working group serve to discuss current trends, new approaches and other topics and their significance for practice.

Subject areas of the Integrity working group

  • Requirements for effective compliance management
  • Values-based corporate culture
  • Anchoring integrity in the company and corporate culture
  • Systematic integrity management
  • Role of managers in promoting and implementing integrity (“commitment from the top”)
  • Dealing with dilemmas and areas of tension

working group results

Working group leader

Ytto El Adel

Compliance Officer at TÜV Rheinland

Ytto El Adel has headed the continental European Legal & Compliance department at TÜV Rheinland since 2023. As Compliance Officer, she is responsible for the regional implementation and management of the Group-wide compliance management system in all divisions. Previously, Ms. El Adel was, among other things, Head of Compliance & Risk Management of a manufacturing company and at the same time acted as Money Laundering Officer of a company obliged to comply with the AMLA.

Pia Windoffer

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Pia Windoffer works as a lawyer, including as Of Counsel at Deloitte Legal in compliance consulting for SMEs and listed companies.

She has over 20 years of in-house experience in the legal fields of antitrust law, anti-corruption law, trade sanctions, anti-money laundering and data protection. Prior to this, she was Director Integrity & Compliance at TUI AG, where she was responsible for the further development and global coordination of the implementation of the compliance management system.

In addition, as a business coach and change management consultant, she supports managers in the area of compliance in particular in shaping corporate culture in terms of integrity.

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