Wendy Davies-Popelka on Creating a Compliance Podcast Series [Podcast]

By Adam Turteltaub There are hundreds of Compliance Perspectives podcasts, and this is the first one that is a podcast about podcasts. More specifically, the podcasts created by the compliance team at John Deere. The compliance team there had long looked to a wide range of tools for reaching the workforce including a monthly email newsletter, channel on internal social media, an intranet site and even digital signs on TV screens at their facilities. Yet, despite all this effort, they knew they could do more. As Wendy Davies-Popelka, the Associate Director, Global Ethics & Compliance, explains, the compliance team was listening to and hooked on several podcasts, and it occurred to them that they should try and create one of their own. So, they did. The podcasts are generally 5-10 minutes long and are based on actual cases that occurred at the company. Investigators, business people and others are interviewed to tell the story, from initial allegation through dispensation. The series has been very successful with a growing audience. Importantly, it has demystified the compliance program. To learn more about the podcasts and how easy they can be to create, be sure to listen to this podcast about John Deere’s podcasts. Listen now