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Oct 2023
1h 11m

Ep. 203: Rupert Evill - On Bootstrapping...

Ben Cattaneo
About this episode

Today on the show, I am delighted to bring you my conversation with Rupert Evill. Rupert is the founder of Ethics Insight, a firm that helps organisations make risk relevant and implement risk, ethics and compliance programmes quickly. Rupert has 22 years of experience managing risks and crises in a variety of different environments and worked on roles focused on investigations, political risk, compliance, crisis response, and counterintelligence and counter-terrorism. He has worked in over 50 countries, including in Asia for over 12 years. He has recently written a book entitled Bootstrapping Ethics to help limited resources navigate risk and ethical challenges.

Rupert is a bit of a kindred spirit in that like me, he as an aversion to "performative" risk management, ethics, and compliance activities. Many of these things are dogma and don't work in the types of complex environments in which Rupert's investigative expertise is incredibly helpful. We talk about all these things and more, including:

  • Why 'zero tolerance' stances on ethical issues backfire;
  • How bribery and corruption actually work in challenging environments – including some interesting anecdotes;
  • The 'dark arts' investigations;
  • Much more!

Show notes:

Ethics Insight

Rupert on LinkedIn

Bootstrapping Ethics

Erin Myer's The Culture Map

Rapport by Emily and Laurence Alison

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