Annual Ethics Training for Certified Fraud Examiners
You May Not Be as Ethical as You Think You Are
Presented by Bret Hood
Meet your annual CFE Ethics requirement by attending this training event.
CPEs: 2
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Virtual Zoom Event: Attendees will receive a Zoom registration and the Zoom link prior to the event.
Event Description
Being Ethical is Harder Than You Think! – In this exercise, participants will learn how their mind will alter and transform facts and situations in order to achieve personal desires over organizational goals. These transformations occur automatically in the subconscious mind and without establishing proactive methods to mitigate these processes, organizations may inadvertently be promoting unethical behaviors by their leaders and employees. After this course, participants will be better able to understand how unethical behavior occurs and more importantly, how to mitigate the chances it can happen to you.
Learning Objectives: After this completely interactive block of instruction, the participants will be able to:
· Describe the effects of bounded ethicality.
· Assess how perspective, life experiences and culture can change ethical perceptions.
· Discuss the psychological need to look at our actions favorably.
· Compare/Contrast the effects of power and a leader's mindset.
· Create mental triggers to improve ethical outcomes.
Additional Information
Cost:
Free for 2025 Members of the Albany ACFE Chapter
$20.00 Non-Members of the Albany ACFE Chapter
Registration will be open until 5:00 pm on Friday, January 31, 2025. If you have any questions please send an email to AlbanyACFE@aol.com.
Speaker Bio
Michael “Bret” Hood spent 25 years as an FBI Special Agent investigating complex cases while specializing in financial crimes, corruption, and money laundering violations. Upon his retirement in 2016, Bret opened 21st Century Learning & Consulting, LLC, a training and consulting business designed to help prevent people from making the mistakes that lead that first lead them down the slippery slope.
Since retiring, Bret has been recruited by both the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the University of Virginia to become adjunct faculty members. Bret teaches fraud, leadership, corporate governance, implicit bias, and ethics for these organizations and was awarded the ACFE’s James R. Baker Speaker of the Year award in 2020. Bret currently serves on the Southern Illinois University Board of Accounting and is a former advisory council member for Mt. St. Mary’s University forensic accounting program.
In 2023, Bret was selected to do two separate TedX talks on ethics. Recently, Bret was interviewed and quoted by the Guardian newspaper in an article related to risk assessment. Bret has presented completely interactive instructional programs on ethics, fraud, implicit bias, and leadership to Fortune 500 companies from all over the world. In addition, Bret has served as an expert witness for financial crimes and money laundering while with the FBI as well as since retirement from the FBI.
Some of the top public and private entities in the world have sought out Bret to assist them in creating, adapting, and modifying anti-fraud, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering programs to interweave the latest behavioral and neuroscience research into their prevention programs. Bret continues to publish articles on best practices in Fraud Magazine, Compliance and Ethics Professional magazine, ACAMS Today, National Mortgage Professional Magazine, and Law Enforcement Bulletin.
While with the FBI, Bret received multiple Special Agent of the Year awards as well as two FBI director’s awards for leadership and innovation. Bret has received commendations from the Internal Revenue Service, various police departments, and international partners in law enforcement.
Bret is the author of the critically acclaimed books, Eat More Ice Cream: A Succinct Leadership Lesson for Each Week of the Year & Get Off Your Horse! 52 Succinct Leadership Lessons from U.S. Presidents.
Substitution/Cancellation Policy:
Registration fees will not be refunded for cancellations made after January 31, 2025. No-shows will be individually responsible for full payment.
