Strategic Partnerships

Corporate Board Member, an NYSE Euronext company, is the leading information and education resource for senior officers and directors of publicly traded corporations, large private companies, and Global 1000 firms. The quarterly publication, Corporate Board Member magazine, provides readers with decision-making tools to deal with the strategic and corporate governance challenges confronting their boards. Corporate Board Member further extends its governance leadership through an online resource center, conferences, roundtables, and timely research. The magazine maintains the most comprehensive, up-to-date database of directors and officers serving on boards of publicly traded companies listed with NYSE Euronext and The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc stock exchanges.

The research-based Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. The Institute’s associated membership groups, the Ethisphere Council and Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, are forums for business ethics that includes over 200 leading corporations, universities and institutions. These groups are dedicated to the development and advancement of members through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the globally recognized World’s Most Ethical Companies Ranking™, is the quarterly publication of the Institute. Ethisphere provides the only third-party verifications of compliance programs and ethical cultures, Ethics Inside Certification®, Anti-Corruption Leader Verification and Compliance Program Verification.

Second City Communications (SCC) is the corporate services division of the world-renowned improvisational theatre company, The Second City. Drawing on The Second City’s 50-year legacy of connecting with audiences through powerful, incisive content, SCC works with hundreds of Fortune 1000 clients each year in blended learning/training programs, internal communications initiatives, and brand marketing assignments. More information about SCC is available at: www.secondcitycommunications.com.

SCC launched RealBiz Shorts, a catalog of short, funny videos for use in ethics and compliance training and communications, in May 2010 to much fanfare, with MSNBC hailing it as “The Office meets YouTube meets your annual Business Ethics 101 seminar.” RealBiz Shorts features an extensive range of videos across more than 20 topics in ethics and compliance—using humor to connect with people and set a context for open, honest dialog. The response to RealBiz Shorts has been strong from a wide spectrum of the business world, with 12 major companies signing on as founding clients, including top brands such as Baxter Healthcare, Best Buy, Dow Chemical, Farmers Insurance, MasterCard, MetLife, MillerCoors, United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) and others.

The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics is a 501 c(6) nonprofit membership organization

The SCCE is dedicated to improving the quality of corporate governance, compliance and ethics. SCCE’s roles include:

• Facilitating the development and maintenance of compliance programs;
• Providing a forum for understanding the complicated compliance environment; and
• Offering tools, resources and educational opportunities for those involved with compliance.