Ethical Leadership and Compliance Culture Course

Name: Ethical Leadership and Compliance Culture Course
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Advanced ethical leadership, compliance governance, decision-making, speaking up, accountability, integrity, and culture effectiveness

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Vienna, Muscat, Dubai, Barcelona, Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Vienna
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Ethical Leadership and Compliance Culture Course is a one-week advanced programme for leaders responsible for making integrity visible in decisions, incentives, conduct, and organisational systems. Participants connect personal ethical judgement with board and executive oversight, compliance governance, codes of conduct, conflicts, speaking up, non-retaliation, investigations oversight, third-party integrity, incentives, accountability, culture measurement, and continual improvement. The course focuses on what leaders do before, during, and after difficult choices rather than treating ethics as policy awareness alone.

Each participant develops an Ethics and Compliance Leadership Charter and Operating Plan for a selected organisation or business unit. The plan defines leadership commitments, decision principles, governance roles, conduct expectations, culture interventions, speaking-up safeguards, response protocols, incentive alignment, third-party expectations, indicators, and a ninety-day action roadmap. Agile Leaders Training Center presents integrity as a governed organisational capability reinforced by consistent leadership action.

Who Should Attend

Executives, senior managers, and business-unit leaders accountable for conduct and performance
Board secretaries, governance professionals, and committee advisers supporting oversight
Chief compliance officers, ethics officers, and compliance business partners
Legal, risk, internal control, internal audit, and investigations leaders
Human resources, reward, learning, employee-relations, and organisational-culture leaders
Procurement, sales, finance, sustainability, and third-party management professionals

The course assumes leadership or professional responsibility for decisions, culture, or compliance. It does not provide legal advice, determine misconduct, direct a live investigation, or replace jurisdiction-specific employment, privacy, regulatory, and reporting requirements.

Learning Objectives

Translate values and ethical standards into repeatable leadership behaviours
Apply a structured method to dilemmas involving pressure, conflicts, fairness, and competing duties
Clarify board, executive, manager, compliance, legal, HR, and assurance responsibilities
Align incentives, performance decisions, recognition, and consequences with integrity
Create credible speaking-up, non-retaliation, triage, and escalation arrangements
Provide appropriate leadership oversight of investigations and remediation without compromising independence
Strengthen integrity expectations across customers, suppliers, agents, partners, and other third parties
Measure ethics and compliance culture through evidence, indicators, and workforce insight

Practical Work Product

Participants build an Ethics and Compliance Leadership Charter and Operating Plan containing:

Leadership commitments and observable behaviours
Ethical decision protocol and escalation guide
Governance and accountability map
Incentive and consequence alignment review
Speak-up and non-retaliation safeguards
Investigation-oversight boundaries and response workflow
Third-party integrity expectations
Culture indicators and review dashboard
Ninety-day leadership action roadmap

Day 1: Ethical Leadership, Values, and Organisational Trust

Ethical leadership as choices, example, consistency, and stewardship
Personal values, organisational purpose, codes of conduct, and behavioural expectations
Power, authority, courage, bias, rationalisation, and pressure
Tone from the board, executive leadership, and middle management
Trust, fairness, transparency, and the credibility gap between words and action

Workshop: define observable leadership commitments and identify moments where integrity is most likely to be tested.

Day 2: Ethical Decision-Making and Conflicts

Framing dilemmas, stakeholders, duties, consequences, rights, and values
Conflicts of interest, gifts, hospitality, outside activities, and personal relationships
Competing commercial, legal, human, social, and reputational considerations
Decision records, consultation, challenge, escalation, and withdrawal
Consistency across seniority, geography, performance, and commercial value

Workshop: apply an ethical decision protocol to a pressured business case and document the reasoning, safeguards, and escalation.

Day 3: Compliance Governance, Incentives, and Accountability

Board and executive oversight of the compliance management system
Roles of management, compliance, legal, HR, risk, investigations, and internal audit
Authority, independence, access, resources, competence, and reporting lines
Targets, bonuses, promotions, recognition, discipline, and consistent consequence management
Embedding integrity into recruitment, onboarding, objectives, performance, and succession

Workshop: map governance accountabilities and review where incentives or performance systems may undermine stated values.

Day 4: Speaking Up, Investigations Oversight, and Remediation

Psychological safety, reporting channels, confidentiality, accessibility, and trust
Non-retaliation safeguards and indicators of overt or subtle retaliation
Concern triage, independence, conflicts, evidence preservation, and case governance
Leadership boundaries during investigations and protection of procedural fairness
Root causes, control failures, accountability, remediation, and communication of lessons

Workshop: design a speak-up and response pathway from initial concern through triage, investigation oversight, remediation, and closure.

Day 5: Third-Party Integrity, Culture Measurement, and Improvement

Ethics and compliance expectations for suppliers, agents, intermediaries, partners, and acquisitions
Risk-based due diligence, contracting, onboarding, monitoring, renewal, and exit
Culture surveys, focus groups, hotline patterns, HR data, audit evidence, and decision testing
Indicators of programme effectiveness, behavioural change, and recurring weakness
Management review, board reporting, lessons, and the ninety-day leadership roadmap

Capstone: present and challenge the Ethics and Compliance Leadership Charter and Operating Plan before a simulated ethics and compliance committee.

Training Methods

Ethical dilemma cases and structured decision exercises
Leadership-behaviour, incentive, and accountability workshops
Speak-up and response pathway simulations
Third-party integrity and culture-measurement exercises
Peer review of leadership charters and operating plans

Course Outcomes

Participants leave able to model ethical standards, make and explain difficult choices, align organisational mechanisms with values, protect credible reporting, oversee response without interference, and use evidence to strengthen culture. They also leave with an operating plan that turns leadership intentions into accountable routines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a legal compliance course?

No. It focuses on leadership, culture, governance, ethical decisions, and programme effectiveness while requiring specialist advice for applicable law.

Does the course teach investigation techniques?

It covers leadership oversight, independence, fairness, escalation, remediation, and boundaries; it does not replace professional investigator training.

Is the course relevant outside regulated sectors?

Yes. Ethical leadership and compliance culture apply across private, public, and not-for-profit organisations.

What will I produce?

You will complete an Ethics and Compliance Leadership Charter and Operating Plan with decisions, governance, incentives, speaking up, response, third parties, indicators, and a ninety-day roadmap.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Vienna	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Muscat	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Barcelona	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Frankfurt	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Geneva	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,200
Lagos	Week 49, 2026 6 – 10 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Paris	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Bangkok	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Vienna	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Marbella	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Cairo	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Paris	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Berlin	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Amman	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Dubai	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Singapore	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

Overview Ethical Leadership and Compliance Culture Course is a one-week advanced programme for leaders responsible for making integrity visible in decisions, incentives, conduct, and organisational systems. Participants connect personal ethical judgement with board and executive oversight, compliance governance, codes of conduct, conflicts, speaking up, n…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

Choose an available date on this page and complete the registration form, or send a programme enquiry.

Can I download the course brochure?

Yes. Use the brochure download link provided on this page.

Ethical Leadership and Compliance Culture Course