
Kristy Grant-Hart
CEO
Spark Compliance Consulting
Kristy Grant-Hart is the CEO of Spark Compliance Consulting and a compliance and data privacy thought leader specializing in transforming compliance departments into in-demand business assets. She’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Compliance Week, Compliance and Ethics Professional Magazine and many others. She’s the author of the best-selling book, “How to Be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer.” Kristy was named a Trust Across America 2019 Top Thought Leader in Trust. In addition, she’s a former board member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and Health Care Compliance Association, and is currently on the Board of Trustees of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation UK.
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17 Oct 2024 Kristy Grant-Hart
The DOJ has Spoken: What to do NOW for Policies and Procedures
This article covers what you need to know about the updated DOJ ECCP expectations regarding policies and procedures.
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8 Oct 2024 Kristy Grant-Hart
New DOJ Guidance: What to do NOW for Risk Assessments
This post explores what you need to know about the DOJ expectations for risk assessments stemming from the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance update in September.
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6 Jun 2024 Kristy Grant-Hart
Supply Chain Regulations and Exposure – How to Manage Third-Party Risk and Beyond
Each year, NAVEX releases the Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance eBook. This post is one of the articles, “Supply Chain Regulations and Exposure – How to Manage Third-Party Risk and Beyond.”
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13 Mar 2023 Kristy Grant-Hart
Modern Slavery? Maybe you Shouldn’t Terminate the Contract – Here’s Why.
With dozens, hundreds, or potentially thousands of third parties within your value chain, determining the human impact is no easy feat. To begin, organizations must conduct a human rights impact assessment to gain a baseline understanding. From there, how should issues and violations be addressed – with termination of the contract, or remediation of the problems?
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9 Jun 2021 Kristy Grant-Hart
5 Best Practices for Managing Whistleblower Expectations & Experiences
Research shows that the majority of employee whistleblowers report internally before reporting to regulators or the media. Here are five whistleblower best practices to ensure that once ethics and compliance teams receive an internal report, they are properly managing reporters to ensure issues are able to be addressed and resolved internally.
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