Vestra Courseware Announced
Vestra™ Courseware for Communicating Business Ethics and Compliance Issues to Global Audiences Announced at ECOA 2008 Annual Conference
Plainsboro, NJ - September 23, 2008 – SAI Global, a leading provider of enterprise-wide compliance and ethics solutions for global companies, today announced the introduction of Vestra™ Courseware at the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association 2008 Annual Business Ethics & Compliance Conference in Orlando FL.
Ethics and Compliance Officers are responsible for communicating and monitoring understanding of compliance and ethics policies, procedures, regulations and standards with their staff, suppliers, agents and brokers around the world. Effective communication requires not just a clear set of business objectives and risk identification and assessment, but also the ability to deliver communications meaningfully across different cultures, norms and languages.
“Our clients communicate complex compliance and ethics messages to culturally and geographically diverse groups around the world,” said Andy Wyszkowski, Global Head of Compliance for SAI Global. “Because people respond best to situations they can relate to, we’ve created Vestra Courseware to flexibly deliver the type of individualized experience that not only helps assure program effectiveness but also builds a global culture of integrity.”
“Unlike training built upon a rigid backbone that delivers a singular, US-centric presentation of scenarios, imagery and terminology, Vestra Courses provide conditional context”, added JC Kinnamon, PhD, Vice President Product Development. “By localizing the content to culture, we’re providing organizations with varying regional views, visual themes, varying actors, settings and terminology – all with the goal of individualizing the learner experience and making the content more meaningful and relevant.”
Vestra Courseware is the latest SAI Global innovation in compliance and ethics awareness and education. Storytorial formats, in which a single story line focuses on content, were introduced as a means to provide structure for compliance and ethics online training in 2003. Two years later SAI Global introduced Ethical Moments®, 3-5 minute vignettes that help organizations build just-in-time awareness about key topics.
ECOA participants will have an opportunity to see a demonstration of Vestra Courses during the conference.
Media Inquiries
Tia Smallwood, Director Marketing, SAI Global, tia.smallwood@saiglobal.com, phone (609) 955-5135.