While we, as individuals, can do little to restore trust in The Market, as compliance professionals, we have the ability, indeed, we have the duty, to uphold the highest possible professional standards and do what we can to restore the public’s trust in our corner of the marketplace. Quite simply, restoring trust equals economic recovery.

To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, we must be the change we want to see in the world.

Trust is earned one relationship at a time. So, what can we, as compliance professionals, do to instill trust, both in ourselves and in our companies?

The price of entry to building trust is acting with integrity. That means you must act as though your children, grandchildren, and mother-in-law are watching you all day. If you say or do anything that would shame these people, you’ve probably acted unethically.

But at the heart of all our problems is a simple loss of trust in those institutions we rely on to keep our economic ship afloat. Until we can return trust to those institutions, nothing else matters.

Further information is available at Corporate Compliance Insights.