Bridging policy and practice:

The 2025 Global Study on Ethics & Compliance Program Maturity

LRN's 2025 Global Study on Ethics & Compliance Program Maturity is one of the most comprehensive views into the current state of compliance programs. The report reflects insights from compliance professionals spanning industries, geographies, and organization size across six E&C maturity dimensions: Culture, Resources & board oversight, Written standards, Enforcement, discipline & incentives, Training & communication, and Risk assessment & reporting.

The 2025 data finds E&C programs remain uneven in their level of maturity and reveals a critical disconnect between policy and practice, particularly around middle management, enforcement, and cultural alignment.

Download the report to explore detailed maturity benchmarks and strategic recommendations that can help transform your compliance function from program management to ethical leadership.

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What you’ll learn:

Cultural alignment underdeveloped: Only 31% of organizations include ethics in performance reviews, and just 15% report a strong "tone in the middle."

Investigations remain manual and fragmented: 35% of organizations track investigations via spreadsheets, with inconsistent cross-functional oversight.

Written standards are evolving: 45% now update their Code of Conduct annually—but embedding policies into day-to-day behavior remains a challenge.

Training and impact measurement gaps persist: Just 44% assess comprehension, and only 37% track misconduct trends post-training.

Risk assessments have blind spots: Fewer than 1 in 5 include talent management risk or leverage third-party evaluation.

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