Join us to hear about crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, and kleptocrats. The Fraud Eats Strategy series is the distillation of experiences, whether it's an accounting scandal, arrests, search warrants, loss of market cap, or all of those things at once – one thing is sure. Failure to consider fraud and corruption risk can upend your strategy and lead to disaster.
Leading in a Crisis: Confronting Violence in the Workplace
Workplace violence is the third-leading cause of death in the workplace in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 5,283 fatal workplace injuries that occurred in the United States in 2023, 740 fatalities were due to violent acts. Homicides (458) accounted for 61.9 percent of violent acts and 8.7 percent of all work-related fatalities. While it is not something anyone wants to think about or consider as a possibility in their place of work, it is a grim reality that organizational leaders must understand and prepare for.
Preparation takes several forms. It includes crisis communications training and planning on how to lead when your organization is in the midst of or has just experienced a violent incident. But of perhaps even greater importance is ensuring that your workforce receives training on what to do when confronted with a workplace violence incident be it an active shooter or some other violent threat or incident.
Show notes:
Kate Schweit Online Resources
Bureau Consortium
27 Jan 2026
Bad Behavior in Brazil – Navigating Corruption in Latin America’s Largest Economy
Brazil is a wild and wondrous country. The people are passionate, the celebrations spectacular and the history is rich. There’s a reason Brazil is Latin America’s largest economy. But investing and doing business in Brazil is fraught with rapidly changing, multi-faceted risks.
Before 2014, there had been zero prosecutions under the country’s anti-bribery and corruption laws. Then the Lava Jato / Operation Car Wash
investigation exploded on the scene and 280 people were convicted of having violated the Brazil Clean Companies Act. Amongst the people charged and 3 convicted in Lava Jato were former President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva along with the presidents of Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay and Peru and senior executives of Brazil’s two largest state-owned companies, Petrobras and Odebrecht. It appeared that Brazil was well on its way to corruption reform. But corruption is insidious and political winds shift. Indeed, some of the recent developments in Brazil are nothing short of surreal. After several unsuccessful efforts to be allowed to run again for president despite his criminal conviction, Lula withdrew his candidacy and Jair Bolsonaro was elected president. Then in 2022, Lula was allowed to run again after the Supreme Court dismissed the 4 charges against him. Lula narrowly defeated Bolsonaro in a run off election in October 2022. Bolsonaro did the logical thing, he allegedly plotted to murder Lula. Former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with planning to stage a coup and poison the president. He was convicted at trial and sentenced to 27 years. And if you still think investing or expanding your operations into Brazil, you are made of tough stuff. But you may need some advice to navigate the chaotic risk environment that is Brazil.
10 Dec 2025
The Rise of Whistleblowing and Retaliation Across Latin America
It is fair to say that whistleblowing across Latin America has caught on. In fact, according to NAVEX’s 2025 Regional Whistleblowing & Incident Management Benchmark Report, a median of 2.97 out of each 100 employees submitted whistleblower reports last year. While that may not seem high, it is the highest region by far in NAVEX’s study when compared to the global median of 1.57 or the lowest of the four regions studied, Europe at .67. Does a higher volume of reports suggest a willingness to come forward without fear of retaliation or is it something else?
The NAVEX report breaks down whistleblower allegations into risk categories. Workplace Conduct, Accounting and Financial Reporting, Business Integrity, Environment, Health and Safety, Misuse or Misappropriation of Assets and Other.
In Latin America, 2/3 of all reports fell into the category of Workplace Conduct. Underneath these 6 categories, there are a total of 24 risk types including Harassment, Discrimination, Substance Abuse, Compensation and Benefits, Workplace Civility (or incivility, I suppose), Other Human Resources and Retaliation. Given that 2/3 of what’s been reported on falls within these categories, that seems like a good place to start our exploration of whistleblowing in Latin America.
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
21 ratings
Spotify
1.0 / 5
1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
49
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
51
Contact Fraud Eats Strategy
Guest appearances
Does not typically book guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Fraud Eats Strategy?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
