Culture Check: Are Your Speak Up Channels Effective?

About this episode

The episode discusses the effectiveness of Speak Up channels and introduces a new self-assessment tool for organizations.

Ever wish you could benchmark your Speak Up channels against more than volume, types of issues raised, and time to close? The Speak Up Self-Assessment (SUSA) was designed to help you go deeper by assessing organizational infrastructure—including reporting channels, confidentiality safeguards, follow-up processes, and governance of whistleblowing systems. In this roundtable episode, we speak with guests: Professor Jessica McManus Warnell Dr. Mary Gentile Allison Narmi about the work they are doing to bring a free, anonymous diagnostic tool to self-assess speak-up channels. Building on the work done in the EU, our guests today are members of the project team that has developed an American version of the tool, with support from the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership. Link to the EU version here – https://edhec.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eleMjkHraHzw6Hk U.S. version coming soon.

People in this episode

Guests: Allison Narmi, Dr Mary Gentile, Professor Jessica Mcmanus Warnell

Topics covered

• Speak Up channels
• whistleblowing systems
• organizational infrastructure
• self-assessment

Keywords

• diagnostic tool
• confidentiality safeguards
• reporting channels

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Speak Up Self-Assessment, Speak Up Self-Assessment (SUSA)

Places: U.S.

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