The Ethical Leadership Group, NAVEX Global’s advisory services division, was formed in 1993 with a straightforward mission – to help companies develop and promote cultures of integrity.
Since their founding, the ELG™ has become known throughout the industry as the leading ethics and compliance consulting group. Their advisors are frequently published, respected speakers at industry conferences and widely recognized for thought and practice leadership.
Their ranks include a former Department of Justice attorney and highly respected practitioners who have served as corporate ethics and compliance officers for public, private and non-profit organizations. They have worked globally in more than 40 countries, utilizing an unmatched level of experience to offer rigorous analysis, practical insight and cost effective recommendations for ethics and compliance program improvement. Collectively, they bring more than 150 years of experience specifically in managing ethics and compliance initiatives to inform client engagements.
ELG earns new clients and business primarily by their reputation and the recommendations of the existing client base. Annually, the majority of the consulting business is generated from clients who initiated relationships in prior years, and have asked ELG to do additional work for them. We believe this is the single best indicator of the quality ELG demonstrate in all of their work and their obsession with client service.
Carrie Penman
Carrie Penman is the president of Ethical Leadership Group (ELG), the advisory services practice of NAVEX Global™. She has been with the firm since 2003 after four years as deputy director of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). Carrie was one of the earliest ethics officers in America – a scientist who developed and directed the first corporate-wide global ethics program at Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Since joining ELG, she has conducted numerous program and culture assessment projects for its clients and regularly works with and trains company boards of directors and executive teams. She also serves as a corporate monitor and independent consultant for companies with government agreements.
Gail Allen
Gail Allen, vice president with ELG, has been engaged in ethics and compliance program management in the aerospace defense industry for more than 17 years. With organizations like Rolls-Royce North America, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Martin Marietta and General Electric Aerospace, she has led development, planning, implementation, execution, and the day-to-day oversight of ethics and compliance programs for international public and private organizations. She joined ELG in 2012.
Mary Bennett
Mary Bennett, R.Ph. is a vice president of ELG and pharmacist by training. She joined the organization as its first employee in 1999 after serving as vice president in the Compliance and Integrity office at Caremark, where she implemented the requirements of one of the first government agreements in healthcare. With ELG, Mary works across all industries, creating and facilitating award winning training programs, conducting large and small program assessments, developing compliance communications, and helping clients develop best practice programs from the ground up.
Diane Brown
Diane Brown, vice president with ELG, has more than 16 years of experience in compliance and legal roles. She has served as vice president of compliance operations for NAVEX Global, where she had direct responsibility for hotline intake processes. Prior to joining NAVEX Global, Diane worked as senior investigations and security analyst for U.S. Foods and an international compliance coordinator for a large defense firm. She has also worked for the international consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where she operated exclusively on defense initiatives related to the armed forces Joint Task Force. She joined ELG in 2012.
Andrew Foose
Andrew Foose, JD., vice president of ELG, is a former senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Andrew is recognized among the country's leading experts on conducting lawful and effective internal investigations and has trained thousands of attorneys, compliance officers, auditors and human resource professionals on best-practice investigative techniques and on how to write effective, comprehensive investigative reports. He currently works with organizations ranging from large multi-national companies to smaller non-profits to assess their ethics and compliance programs and to provide guidance on ways to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency. He joined ELG in 2008.
Ingrid Fredeen
Ingrid Fredeen, J.D., vice president with ELG, has been specializing in ethics and legal compliance training for more than 6 years. She has been the principal design and content developer for NAVEX Global’s online training course initiatives utilizing her more than 15 years of specialization in employment law and legal compliance. Prior to joining NAVEX Global, Ingrid worked both as a litigator with Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest employment law firm, and as in-house corporate counsel for General Mills, Inc. a premier Fortune 500 food manufacturing company. She joined ELG in 2012.
Ed Petry
Ed Petry, Ph.D., joined ELG in 2004 after almost ten years as executive director of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). Ed served on the Advisory Panel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission which was responsible for the 2004 revisions. Earlier in his career he was a tenured professor of ethics and a prolific author and researcher. While others may claim to know best practices, Ed’s work with the ECOA and the Sentencing Commission actually helped establish those practices as well as the standards by which they are measured. At ELG, Ed applies his more than 25 years of experience to help companies assess their ethics and compliance programs. He has also written many of the most admired codes of conduct for companies worldwide and representing nearly every industry.
Santiago Zorzopulos Reich
Santiago Zorzopulos Reich joined ELG in 2005 after serving in ethics and corporate responsibility roles for the World Bank Group, Chiquita Brands International and the Dubai Ethics Resource Center. His specialties include international ethics and compliance, corporate responsibility and anticorruption. Santiago is a native of Argentina.
Randy Stephens
Randy Stephens, JD, CCEP, is vice president of ELG, a lawyer and compliance specialist who has worked in roles with legal and compliance responsibility for over 30 years, including operations in Mexico, China and Canada. Randy has significant in-house experience leading compliance programs and working for some of the largest and most diverse public and private corporations in the United States, e.g. Home Depot, Family Dollar and US Foods. He joined ELG in 2012.
Nate White
Nate White is an actor, engineer, and math wizard. He is also the keeper of ELG’s benchmarking data, and produces the helpline benchmarks used in Integrity Diagnostics™. He has solved client needs using his creative and analytical skill set since joining ELG in 2005.
