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Suzan McGinnis

Program Director for Organizational Ethics and Compliance

  • Education
  • J.D. Hamline University
    M.L.I.S. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    B.A. Augustana College

Suzan McGinnis has more than 19 years of experience in compliance and ethics. She spent fourteen years in compliance and ethics roles at the largest U.S. electronics retailer and at one of the largest U.S. based consumer retailers. Suzan has extensive experience in developing training and awareness programs, policies and procedures, Codes of Conduct, conflicts of interest, gift and vendor relationship management, and strategic planning for ethics and compliance teams in complex global organizations.

Suzan also spent over ten years in higher education. In addition to teaching undergraduates, Suzan has her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and served as a Collection Development Librarian at a liberal arts college, large research libraries, and at a content management start-up. Suzan was an active member of the education community and has several publications and presentations as a professional librarian.

Suzan has taught courses at both Fordham University School of Law and for the Yale School of Management Executive Education courses through GetSmarter.

Presentations:

  • Regional Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual meeting 2024. “Evaluating Your Company’s Code of Conduct”
  • SCCE Regional Conference in Minneapolis 2023. “Evaluating Third Parties”
  • Regional Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual meeting 2022. “The Virus, Vaccines and Culture Collision: Where Does Ethics Fit?”
  • SCCE 2020 with Rachel Batykefer “How to Reach Your Global Workforce”
  • ECI Annual Conference 2018 with Chris Collin and Scott Avelino, “Using the 7 Elements toward an effective Compliance and Ethics Program”
  • ECI Annual Conference 2017 with Chris Collin
  • Regional Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual meeting 2018. “S Squared: the role of choice in an ethics program”
  • Regional Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual meeting 2017. “An Effective Compliance and Ethics Program”

Publications:

McGinnis, Suzan D., and Jinger A. Gustafson, “Perfecting the recipe for your ethical culture assessment ‘sauce’”. CEP Minneapolis, MN. October 2020.

McGinnis, Suzan D., and Jinger A. Gustafson, “Can Choices Be This Simple: Survival or Status?” ethikos, Minneapolis, MN. July 2020.