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Kaplan EduNeering Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary of the Ethics Communication Coach

Unique Program Provides Compliance and Legal Officers with 2,000 Content Tools to Use in Developing Ongoing
Ethics and Compliance Programs and Impacting Organizational Culture

August 18, 2009 – Princeton, NJ – Kaplan EduNeering, a leading provider of compliance and knowledge management solutions, announced the 10 year anniversary of its Ethics Communication Coach (ECC) subscription-based service. Launched in 1999, the ECC was developed to effect ethical culture change across an organization, five years before the revised U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines asked companies to promote an organizational culture that encourages a commitment to compliance.

“While it is well understood that ethical culture change requires more than a one-time or once-annual training event, organizations struggle with how to continually reinforce a culture in which employees ‘do the right thing,’” said Lisa Clune, President of Kaplan EduNeering. “Our ECC integrates best practices in marketing, communications and organizational behavior in a continually updated toolkit for compliance and legal professionals to disseminate key ethics messages throughout their organizations on a regular basis. More than 100 organizations rely on ECC as an essential resource in driving individual behavior change and promoting cultures based on ethics and compliance with the law.”

Kaplan EduNeering’s ECC is unique in supporting existing ethics programs. It augments any existing ethics program by providing new, continually updated resources for use in corporate messaging and enterprise-wide communications to employees and other stakeholders.

The ethics toolkit is a cost- and time-effective alternative to the research, design and preparation necessary to create materials in house, and the ECC tools are easily customizable to each organization. In addition, the range of resources allows corporate compliance managers to choose and brand individual tools that best support their own ethics programs. The ECC resource base, which is updated quarterly, includes more than 2,000 individual training tools that integrate powerful educational elements with content prepared by recognized experts.

More than 50 topics are covered in formats including articles, case studies, scenarios, posters, cartoons, bi-monthly news updates, mini-training courses, webinars and coaching sessions. The topics covered include:

Accounting & Financial Records and Control
Accurate Books and Records
Antitrust
Codes of Conduct
Company Resources and Copyright
Conflicts of Interest
Corporate Governance
Discrimination
Environmental Responsibility
FCPA
Fraud
Gifts and Gratuities
Government Business
Harassment & Sexual Harassment
Insider Trading
Money Laundering
Political Activities & Contributions
Privacy
Reporting
Sarbanes-Oxley
Supply Chain
Sustainability
Workplace Violence
Describing the ECC, Joel Rogers, Kaplan EduNeering’s VP of Ethics, explained, “Well-designed ethics programs systematically saturate organizations with ethics messages that, over time, are accepted as inherent characteristics of the corporate culture. Certainly, it is possible to teach employees the basic information contained in a corporate code of conduct through an annual training course, but infusing an organization with a philosophy of ethics that affects individual behavior is virtually impossible without a constant, sustained campaign that directly impacts the psychology of the workforce. It is that philosophy that drove us to develop and continually hone the ECC service.”

About Kaplan EduNeering

Kaplan EduNeering (www.kaplaneduneering.com) is part of Kaplan, Inc., a leading global provider of educational services to individuals, schools and businesses. Kaplan is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Kaplan EduNeering develops technology-enabled knowledge solutions for assuring regulatory compliance and improving business performance. Kaplan EduNeering is headquartered in Princeton, NJ, and has offices in Houston, TX, Bloomsburg, PA, and London, UK.