"What Every Company Should Know About Compliance Training"

Organizations are constantly at risk due the actions of their officers, managers and employees. In today's regulatory environment, compliance to ethics, values, environmental and safety practices, and codes of conduct are of highest importance. Although compliance is expensive, failure to comply is even more expensive.

The tangle of legal requirements demands mandatory rather than discretionary conduct. Violation exposes a company's officers and directors to expensive penalties and lawsuits. When it comes to compliance issues, the choice is not "whether to train" but "how to train". Companies are forced to define their approach, select the resources to support that approach, and find solutions for the challenge of delivering training when time away from the job means decreased productivity. This webinar will cover:

Standard setting, audit processes, and expectations of regulating agencies.
Legal consequences of non-compliance
Successful approaches companies are taking.
Training formats that provide the best results.
Record keeping and training processes that satisfy auditors.

The focus of this webinar will be on practical how-to's. Our panel will share recent trends and success stories. Those who should attend: HR managers and Training and Development Managers as strategic partners to the company's Board of Directors.

Keynote Presentations by:

Scott Mitchell -- is the CEO of doubleDrum Capital (www.doubledrum.com ), a technology and investment firm that specializes in helping early stage businesses that need both capital, operational expertise. He and his team work with several organizations in industries including corporate education, children's education, game development, and wireless telecom tower management.

Mr. Mitchell also serves as the President of a not-for-profit initiative called the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG). OCEG (www.oceg.org) provides an unbiased, common framework for designing, developing, operating, and benchmarking effective compliance and ethics management programs. Support for this initiative comes from leaders of organizations including: McKinsey & Co., PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young LLP, Deloitte & Touche LLP, KPMG, the Business Roundtable, the Conference Board, the Practising Law Institute, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the American Bar Association, Risk and Insurance Management Society, AIG, Gulf/Travelers, Marsh Inc., Willis, NASDAQ, and the NASD. Over 100 individuals representing 50+ companies are participating in the development of this framework which will be publicly available in late-2003.

Mr. Mitchell was the Co-President and CEO of Learning Productions, a corporate training and "eLearning" company that specialized in business simulation - a discipline in which Mr. Mitchell holds several US and international patents. Learning Productions was acquired by SmartForce (now SkillSoft, NASDAQ: SKIL) where Mr. Mitchell served as Vice President of Global Services Delivery and later as Vice President of Business Process and Quality. Among other accomplishments, he built and managed the award-winning development center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to Learning Productions, Mr. Mitchell served at Accenture as the global knowledge manager for Internet Technologies and as manager of Object Technology in the Financial Services industry.

Mr. Mitchell began his career as both client of, and consultant for the Small Business Administration (SBA). His first company built software which is used by coaches for diagnosing the locus of motivation in athletes. The SBA's assistance motivated Mr. Mitchell to later join as a consultant to give back some of what he learned in the process of starting his own company.

Scott grew up in Minnesota and Ohio. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Miami University in Oxford Ohio with a degree in Accountancy, East Asian Studies, and Computer Science. He resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona and Sagamore Hills, Ohio.

Michael E. Horowitz -- is a litigation partner and member of the Business Fraud and Complex Litigation Group. Drawing on his experience as a high-level official at the Justice Department in Washington and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, Mr. Horowitz provides counseling and representation in complex civil litigation, and on a variety of criminal and regulatory issues including securities, health care, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, banking, and white collar crime matters.

Mr. Horowitz holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar.

Martha A. George -- is the Regulatory Curriculum Coordinator for HealthStream, Inc., a leading provider of e-learning solutions for the healthcare industry. Ms. George has over 15 years experience in interpreting law and regulation, and developing educational programs that meet the needs of a variety of learning levels. Currently, Ms. George applies this knowledge into the regulatory and compliance based educational programs offered by HealthStream.

Prior to joining HealthStream, Ms. George held the position of Compliance Officer for a major hospital system based in Nashville, TN and served as founder and principal for the consulting firm, Healthcare Accreditation Consultants.

About HealthStream
Healthcare Organizations use HealthStream's e-learning solutions to improve learning, increase compliance, and enhance organizational effectiveness for nurses, technicians, staff workers, physicians, and all clinical and non-clinical healthcare employees throughout the enterprise. Some customers include: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Scott & White Hospital, Sutter Health, HCA, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Banner Health System, and San Francisco General Hospital.

Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies use HealthStream's e-learning solutions to launch educational programs and reach healthcare professionals. The service offering to this market includes professional education products, promotional programs, and innovative sales training and support tools. HealthStream has relationships with seven of the top-ten pharmaceutical companies-including AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, and Pfizer and eight of the top-ten medical device companies-including Allegiance, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, and Zimmer.
http://www.healthstream.com/

Alex Brigham -- Corpedia is a web-based eLearning provider that develops interactive business management training and legal compliance training for corporations. Our web-based training library is created in exclusive partnership with internationally recognized business leaders and organizations such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, The Conference Board, and The Deming Institute. With a continuously expanding library, Corpedia offers cutting-edge eLearning solutions necessary to resolve complex business problems.
http://www.corpedia.com/

Julie K. Moriarty -- has been working with LRN customers on implementing successful ethics and compliance training programs for three years. She established and managed the implementation team of Knowledge Services Executives who assist customers with program planning, site customization, program marketing and ongoing plan management. In her current position as Director of Strategic Accounts, she works directly with many of LRN's larger customers on integrating the Legal Compliance and Ethics Center and Knowledge Environment into the company culture.

Before joining LRN, Julie managed client services and product management operations for two companies providing enterprise-wide litigation support and knowledge management solutions to corporations and law firms. She received a B.A., with Distinction, from the University of Virginia.
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