About

For over 40 years, Joe Murphy, JD, CCEP, has been a tireless champion of compliance and ethics in organizations and has done work in this field on six continents. Joe has published over 100 articles and given over 200 presentations in 21 countries.  

Joe is author of 501 Ideas for Your Compliance & Ethics Program and A Compliance & Ethics Program on a Dollar a Day. 

He is a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) and was previously a member of the board of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics. Joe was named one of The National Law Journal’s 50 Governance, Risk and Compliance Trailblazers and Pioneers 2014.

Joe is co-founder and editor of the newsletter, Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers, with Adam Balfour, Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker. 

A renowned expert in his field, Joe is an established author and lecturer who travels the world helping compliance and ethics professionals steer their companies and other organizations along the straight and narrow path.

Practicing for twenty years in-house, and over twenty years as an outside advisor in the field of organizational compliance and ethics, Joe can travel throughout the world and be welcomed on a first name basis among the champions of compliance everywhere.

Joe has advised governments, companies, non-governmental organizations and universities around the world about the nuances of implementing an effective compliance and ethics program. Compliance techniques that he wrote about as early as the 1980s are now accepted best practices.

Joe is an international proponent of the compliance and ethics field, one of the few careers left where, as he puts it, “you can do well and do good at the same time.”

• Senior advisor, Compliance Strategists, a consulting firm doing compliance work on a global scale.
• Winner of the Concurrences 2021 Antitrust Compliance Awards, Special Award
• Named one of The National Law Journal’s 50 Governance, Risk and Compliance Trailblazers and Pioneers 2014.
• Director of Public Policy, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (pro bono)
• Editor in Chief, SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Professional.
• With Jay Sigler wrote the first book on compliance programs, Interactive Corporate Compliance, 3 years before the Sentencing Guidelines were issued
• With Jeff Kaplan and Win Swenson wrote the leading legal text on compliance programs, Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines
• Author of 501 Ideas for Your Compliance & Ethics Program(SCCE; 2008) and co-author of Building a Career in Compliance and Ethics (SCCE; 2007).
• Wrote two of the leading SCCE white papers, “A Compliance & Ethics Program on Dollar a Day,” http://tinyurl.com/qxqeugaand “Using Incentives in Your Compliance & Ethics Program” http://tinyurl.com/heaw3sl .
• Wrote Policies in conflict: Undermining corporate self-policing, 69 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 421 (Winter 2017).
• Chair, Advisory Board, Rutgers Center for Government Compliance and Ethics
• Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP).
• Recipient of the SCCE’s Compliance& Ethics Award.
• Former board member, Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics
• Co-author, HCCA and SCCE Codes of Ethics
• Co-founder of one of the world’s top online compliance training firms, Integrity Interactive (now part of SAI Global).
• Co-chair of the first PLI Compliance and Advanced Compliance seminars.
• Wrote one of the first articles on the self-evaluative privilege (1982), was cited in judicial opinions, and testified on this topic before the Sentencing Commission’s Ad Hoc Advisory Committee
• Member, Advisory Board, Compliance & Ethics Committee, ABA Antitrust Section.
• Has done compliance work on 6 continents
• Presentations for government agencies including the US Sentencing Commission, OSHA, NY OSH, OECD review team, Australian Consumer & Competition Commission staff, DOJ National Advocacy Center, SEC FCPA “Bootcamp,” and the Australian Tax Office
• Published over 100 articles and given over 200 presentations
• Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, ABA Journal, CNBC, Compliance News (Australia) and numerous other publications.
• 20 years in-house practical compliance experience, including designing a compliance program for a global telecommunications company in 1991.
• Penn Law School, Order of the Coif, Managing Editor of the Law Review
• In his spare time, founder of the Society of Dancing Compliance & Ethics Professionals and ballroom dance enthusiast.

Please check out this site and don’t hesitate to reach out to Joe for anything related to compliance and ethics.

For current ideas and thoughts visit Joe’s LinkedIn page.

Joe Murphy believes in helping out those in his neighborhood and has made a difference in his hometown of Haddonfield, New Jersey. Through his financial support and hands-on volunteering in projects both big and small, Joe has encouraged and inspired others. 

In 2010, Joe was named “Haddonfield Citizen of Year,” which came with the honor of his being honorary grand marshal of Haddonfield’s annual Independence Day parade. In 2017 he received the Alfred Driscoll Award from the Haddonfield Civic Association for outstanding service in the Borough of Haddonfield.

On most Sunday nights, when he’s not globetrotting, you can catch Joe in the ballroom at Dance Haddonfield at Grace Church.

Joe is involved in the following organizations:

• Founder and chief cha-cha officer of Dance Haddonfield
• Founder and former president of the Friends of the Indian King Tavern Museum
• Member of the Historical Society of Haddonfield
• Member of Friends of the Haddonfield Library
• Member of the board of trustees of the Haddonfield Foundation
• Member of the Haddonfield Rotary Club
• Member and vice chair of the board of the Haddonfield Outdoor Sculpture Trust