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Skillcast Compliance & Culture Seminar - Autumn 25

Six focused sessions on cybersecurity, culture and conduct, new employment rights, anti-harassment duties, fraud defence and data-driven e-learning

This seminar included concise updates on six key compliance areas: strengthening cyber defences for 2025, embedding compliance into workplace culture, preparing for major 2026 employment reforms, fulfilling new anti-harassment obligations, establishing fraud controls as statutory defences, and using adaptive e-learning to close knowledge gaps and document compliance. 

Seminar sessions

Explore all sessions below including speakers and key takeaways.

Culture Beyond Compliance

Session 1

Speaker: David Grosse

  • Why the current approach by the UK FCA to non-financial misconduct is a subset of a much wider topic
  • An explanation of the wider drivers of behaviour and the Fundamental Attribution Error
  • Insight into why training and communications often fails, and the importance of understanding how people behave when faced with a dilemma
  • Why processes, procedures, rules and regulations are often ignored, and the dangers of sludge and friction
  • The importance of understanding culture and behaviour within an organization as a “complex” system.
  • Why the advance of AI will increase the need for behaviourally informed approaches
  • Other context on key challenges, opportunities and approaches

 

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Worker Protection Act

Session 2

Speakers: Danni Belbin

  • Understand the legal framework
  • Gain a clear understanding of the new positive duty which came into force on 26 October 2024
  • Recognise the requirement for employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
  • Assess legal consequences of non-compliance
  • Explore the potential 25% uplift in tribunal compensation where an employer fails to meet the preventative duty
  • Understand the role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in enforcing compliance.
  • Apply best practice guidance
  • Understand the EHRC’s updated technical guidance and ACAS recommendations, including risk assessments, training, and policy development 

 

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Cybersecurity

Session 3

Speakers: Rakee Das 

  • Incident Response Plan - why do you need this? (A free Top 10 things to include in your Incident Response plan)
  • Passphrases - What it is and best practices
  • Multi-Factor Authentication - How it works?
  • Phishing - The types of Phishing and do we recognise them if they are occurring?
  • Statistics from IBM Data Breach Report 2025 - Reinforcing why we must take a proactive approach with cybersecurity exercises
  • Useful links and guidance 

 

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Employment Rights Bill

Session 4

Speakers: Remziye Ozcan

  • Understand the scope and ambition of the Employment Rights Bill
  • Day-one unfair dismissal rights
  • Fire and rehire restrictions
  • Collective consultation changes
  • Prepare for implementation

 

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Failure to Prevent Fraud

Session 5

Speaker: Alex Wood

  • What happens when employees commit fraud—and the consequences for company leaders and directors
  • Cultural and reputational fallout after internal fraud
  • Recent shifts in legislation, including ECCTA and FTPF, and what they mean for directors
  • Understanding the risks and realities of sophisticated fraud from someone who’s been inside the system
  • The legal, human, and business impact if directors are charged under new offences

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Summary Session

Session 6

Speakers: Catriona Razic, Katharine Leaman, Scott Morris

Skillcast brings the sessions together in a final review with a focus on:

  • Implementing e-learning and controls for enhanced learning
  • Matching learning to individual needs
  • Identifying and addressing knowledge gaps
  • Reporting effectively and demonstrating control

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Meet the speakers

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David Grosse

Keynote Speaker | Founder & Chief Consultant, Behavor

David Grosse is the founder of Behavor, a behavioural risk practice focusing on the Financial Services industry and is the UK Managing Director of Swarm Dynamics, a company that utilises AI in conjunction with social network analysis, behavioural and data science. His work involves advising banks, regulators and industry bodies on the use of behavioural science in risk management, conduct, culture and compliance. During his 30 years working in banking his roles included running a Behavioural Risk team within HSBC Global Banking and Markets; the Global Head of Operational Risk, Asia Pacific Head of Internal Audit, and Hong Kong Chief Operating Officer at Barclays Capital; and the Asia Pacific Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Operational Risk at CLSA, an Asia Pacific based Financial Services firm. 
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Danni Belbin

Senior Associate, Mills & Reeve LLP

Danni is a Senior Associate employment lawyer at Mills & Reeve, advising employers across a range of sectors on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Danni is known for her strategic, pragmatic approach—supporting clients through complex workplace issues including redundancies, TUPE, high-risk exits, and Employment Tribunal litigation. She regularly contributes to legal updates and client training, and is committed to developing practical, people-focused solutions in a fast-evolving employment landscape.
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Remziye Ozcan

Principle Associate, Mills & Reeve LLP

Remziye is a Principal Associate employment lawyer at Mills & Reeve, she has considerable experience in helping clients navigate employment law issues, often with overlapping contractual issues. She has been involved in a number of complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims. She regularly provides expert legal commentary to the media and press. She has appeared on BBC News, ITV News and Sky News as well as several radio stations across the country. Remziye is also a regular speaker, presenting employment law updates and appearing at conferences, on panels and on webinars.
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Rakee Das

Account Manager, MDSec

4+ years Governance, Risk, and Compliance experience
Experience in Data Privacy matters, Testing (Penetration testing), Accreditations/Frameworks; Cyber Essentials and CE Plus, ISO27001, Incidents and Investigations (Incident Response)
5 years of Professional Services experience
Education, Technology, Legal.
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Alex Wood

Keynote Speaker | BBC Presenter

Alex is a convicted fraudster who now advises government departments, including the Home Office, NHS, FCA, and FCDO, on fraud prevention. He serves on the Board of Advisors for FFAC C.I.C., helping to educate about financial crime. While in prison, Alex was signed by literary agent Andrew Lownie; he’s now represented by speaking agencies in the UK, Europe, and the USA. In 2025, Alex was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Catriona Razic

CRO, Skillcast

Catriona, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Skillcast, advises global firms on compliance communication strategies. She holds a degree in Psychology and Economics, and specialises in driving successful learning initiatives.
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Katharine Leaman

CEO, Leaman Crellin

Katharine has worked in financial services for over thirty years in insurance claims, giving investment advice, regulation, and banking compliance. Katharine has been European Head of Regulatory Compliance at Standard Chartered Bank and spent over a decade at the UK's regulator, the FSA (now FCA in senior policy and supervision roles. 

Katharine’s expertise is in technical areas of the rules such as Market Abuse, CASS, SMCR, and Outsourcing. As well as issues that have a broader regulatory focus such as market conduct, non-financial misconduct, conduct risk, operational resilience, and consumer duty. 

At Leaman Crellin Katharine regularly provides compliance advice to the C-suite as well as to front-office trading and salespeople around the world. 

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Scott Morris

Scott has over 40 years' banking and Compliance leadership experience, acquired across a number of global banking organisations, as well as a regulator and professional body. He has extensive experience in creating and directing large teams across different regions. He has performed senior roles in Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime and COO at Board, Senior Advisor, Managing Director and Executive Vice President levels. 

 

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