Debra Sabatini Hennelly

I help executives and boards create cultures of integrity, candor and inclusion, which are essential to organizational resilience. With my holistic frameworks for managing compliance, ethical and ESG risks/opportunities, I help integrate these commitments into operations and cultures of teams/organizations. I also coach compliance professionals, helping them lead effectively and develop strategies for personal resilience. For more than 25 years, I have been creating innovative approaches to managing compliance and fostering ethical leadership—from boardrooms to break rooms—with organizations ranging from small entities to large multinationals. My expertise is rooted in my engineering and legal training, as well as the insights and lessons learned from my decades of in-house leadership and consulting roles. My passions for learning, teaching and "connecting the dots” fuel my ability to inspire authenticity and engagement. I founded Resiliti in 2004 (then, as Compliance & Ethics Solutions) to provide consulting and experiential learning, values-based codes of conduct, risk management and investigations. With my talented colleagues and our comprehensive services, we help bring to life organizational values and a culture that supports the ideas, perspectives, courage and dignity of each individual in a team and across an organization. I have served as adjunct faculty for BP, facilitating workshops in ethical leadership, as well as leading interactive learning for other organizations with their employees, managers, senior executives and board directors. I have also served as general counsel and chief compliance officer for two chemical companies, Sonneborn and PeroxyChem, reporting to their CEOs and meeting with their Boards of Directors. Earlier in my career, I spent more than 10 years in legal and compliance leadership roles in AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, BP and Avon Products. Before practicing law, I was a civil and environmental engineer, supervising construction for Exxon. Member: Society of Human Resource Management; Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics. Conference Speaker: SCCE, ECI, NSCP, PLI, NACD, ACC, others. Author: “Presence in Chaos” (Amazon); Medium; CCI; others. Areas of expertise: Compliance/Ethics/ESG; Risk &Opportunity Assessment/Management; Culture Assessment &Change; Personal Effectiveness Coaching for Leading Ethics/Compliance/ESG/Cross-Functional Teams; Code of Conduct, Values, Policies/Programs in DEI, ESG, EH&S, Anti-Corruption, Information Governance; In-Person & Virtual Workshops/Experiential Learning.