Business of Compliance Certificate program

Designing Effective Compliance Programs

Faculty: Todd Haugh, Suneal Bedi, and industry partner

Frame compliance as a business problem requiring business solutions. Use a structured framework to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance program.

Values, Culture and Ethics

Faculty: Suneal Bedi and guest expert

Connect organizational values to culture in practice. Examine why gaps can emerge between what companies aspire to do and what they actually do, and how to close those gaps.

Behavioral Ethics

Faculty: Todd Haugh

Explore the cognitive and social mechanisms that can cause well-intentioned people to make poor ethical decisions and what compliance programs can do about it.

Research Methods and Data Analysis

Faculty: Suneal Bedi

Learn empirical methods for measuring whether compliance programs are working, including surveys, A/B testing, and conjoint analysis.

Compliance Risk Analysis

Faculty: External expert

Learn systematic approaches to identifying and measuring compliance risk, with an emphasis on using risk analysis not only defensively but as a source of organizational value. Build and present a compliance risk register while exploring the concept of offensive compliance, using compliance risk analysis to identify opportunities to strengthen the organization.

Auditing Ethics and Compliance

Faculty: External expert

Explore what regulators look for when evaluating compliance programs and learn how to conduct an internal audit for risk and fraud.

Compliance Strategy

Faculty: Todd Haugh and Suneal Bedi

Apply core MBA strategy tools, including SWOT analysis, competitive analysis, and scenario planning, to the compliance function and build the case for compliance as a driver of competitive advantage.

Communications and Marketing

Faculty: Suneal Bedi and guest expert

Learn how to communicate the value of compliance to boards of C-suite leaders as well as employees using marketing science and data-driven narrative.

Compliance Leadership

Faculty: Todd Haugh and guest chief compliance officer

Explore the organizational and personal dimensions of leading a compliance function effectively with insights from an experienced compliance leader.

Capstone Presentations

Faculty: Todd Haugh and Suneal Bedi

Present a compliance project tied to your organization, integrating tools and frameworks from across the program into a real, usable deliverable.

A compliance certificate is a professional credential that demonstrates specialized knowledge and skills related to organizational compliance. Unlike a traditional compliance credential focused primarily on rules, regulations or auditing, the Business of Compliance Certificate takes a broader business approach.

Through this professional certificate in compliance, you’ll learn how organizations can apply behavioral science, empirical methods, strategic management, and effective communication to build more effective compliance programs and create business value.

The Business of Compliance Certificate is a 10-week compliance certificate program from the Kelley School of Business. It teaches compliance as a business discipline, combining live online instruction, asynchronous coursework, practical frameworks, and a capstone project.

The Business of Compliance Certificate takes a business-school approach to compliance. Rather than focusing solely on regulatory requirements, the program examines behavioral ethics, organizational culture, data and research methods, risk analysis, strategic management, communications, and leadership to guide professionals in strengthening compliance as a business function.

Yes. The program is delivered fully online through a combination of asynchronous coursework and live, synchronous virtual instruction. Live sessions are recorded and available to participants throughout the program.

The program explores how to communicate the role and value of compliance to different stakeholders, including executives, boards, employees, and others across the organization. You’ll develop a business-focused approach to explaining how effective compliance programs can support organizational goals, influence behavior and culture, and create value beyond regulatory risk reduction.

You’ll learn how to evaluate compliance programs, understand behavioral ethics, measure program effectiveness, analyze compliance risk, apply strategic management tools, communicate with executives and boards, and lead compliance functions effectively.

The program moves beyond a traditional risk-mitigation approach by applying business frameworks, behavioral science, empirical methods, and strategic thinking to compliance. You’ll examine how compliance programs can be evaluated, strengthened, and aligned with organizational goals to support business performance and create measurable value.

The program lasts 10 weeks. Each week includes approximately one hour of asynchronous coursework and two hours of live, synchronous virtual instruction.

Tuition is $5,200. Ethico partners and clients receive a discount on tuition.

You’ll earn a Certificate in the Business of Compliance from the Kelley School of Business and a digital badge from Kelley Executive Education. You may also qualify for three waived graduate credits toward select online Kelley graduate programs.

The Business of Compliance Certificate program is offered in partnership with Ethico, an ethics and compliance solutions provider.

The partnership brings practitioner expertise and industry perspective to the program while supporting participant recruitment.