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, establishing and maintaining a value-based corporate culture is a challenging task for companies, management and compliance officers. The different, sometimes conflicting expectations of the role of the
compliance officers in the prevention, detection and management of misconduct can lead to areas of tension due to a lack of effective integrity management.
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
- Measuring the corporate culture
- …. and many other exciting topics!
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Working group management

Ytto El Adel
Compliance Officer at TÜV Rheinland
Ytto El Adel has headed the 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. Previously, Ytto El Adel was, among other things, Head of Compliance & Risk Management at a manufacturing company and at the same time acted as Money Laundering Officer for a company subject to AMLA.

Pia Windoffer
Of Counsel at Deloitte Legal
Pia Windoffer works as Of Counsel at Deloitte Legal in compliance consulting for medium-sized and listed companies.
Before joining Deloitte Legal, Pia Windoffer 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. Prior to that, she was Compliance Officer at GE Money Bank GmbH (merged into Santander Consumer Bank AG), where she was in charge of compliance, and before that she set up an anti-money laundering program for the consumer electronics division at Sony Europe GmbH. Pia Windoffer has over 25 years of professional experience in the legal fields of antitrust law, anti-corruption law, trade sanctions, money laundering and data protection and has successfully implemented codes of conduct, whistleblower systems, risk analyses, corporate guidelines and compliance training worldwide.
Pia Windoffer studied law at the Universities of Münster, Lausanne and Heidelberg and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Leuven in Belgium. As she is fascinated by the question of how corporate culture can change in terms of integrity, she has also acquired additional qualifications as a business coach (member of the German Federal Coaching Association) and business trainer, coach and change management consultant in accordance with ÖNORM EN ISO/IEC 17024. In this role, she particularly supports managers in the area of compliance in finding the right standing for them in their organization.
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