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Ellen Hunt has more than two decades of compliance management experience, including leadership positions in health care and food service.
Faculty Profile Ellen Hunt
Risk mitigator
Ellen Hunt is passionate about training the next generation of compliance professionals
There’s a pithy statement that Ellen Hunt uses to explain why companies need effective compliance programs: “Humans create risk.” Whether a company is large or small, domestic or global, private or publicly held, it must take steps to mitigate the dangers that can jeopardize its brand, reputation, and success.
Many companies reach out to experts like Hunt for guidance. As a principal consultant and adviser at Spark Compliance Consulting, Hunt helps multinational corporations build award-winning ethics and compliance programs. She brings more than two decades of management experience to the role, including leadership positions in health care and food service, as well as 10 years with the AARP.
“Being in compliance has been a very fulfilling career path,” Hunt says. “It’s been an opportunity to help people make ethical decisions.”
Hunt shares her expertise and real-world knowledge with students in the School of Law’s MJ and LLM programs in Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management, co-teaching the online course “Compliance and Culture” with Steve Naughton, director of Loyola’s Center for Compliance Studies.
“The focus is … to ensure individuals have the opportunity for professional development and knowledge sharing so they can advance in their careers.”
Guest lecturers are a highlight of the course. Past speakers have included a whistleblower, compliance officers, and chief risk officers. Students also engage in a group project where they present with their fellow classmates on why corporations need effective ethics and compliance programs.
“These are truly executive-level programs,” Hunt says. “Many students have already worked as compliance professionals but are looking to advance and be promoted. Some have less experience than others, but they all derive great value during their time here.”
Hunt’s commitment to the next generation of compliance experts goes beyond teaching and consulting. With Caitlyn Tobey, a privacy professional, Hunt launched “The Seven Elements Book Club.” Named after the federal sentencing guidelines, this virtual book club of 225 members meets 10 times annually for author chats and breakout sessions. Compliance enthusiasts can also catch Hunt on the “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, where she serves as a co-host for roundtable discussions.
“The focus is really on creating a community and ‘sending the elevator back down’ to ensure individuals have the opportunity for professional development and knowledge sharing so they can advance in their careers,” Hunt says. “We’re spreading the message that this field is pretty awesome.” –Kelsey Schagemann (September 2024)
There’s a pithy statement that Ellen Hunt uses to explain why companies need effective compliance programs: “Humans create risk.” Whether a company is large or small, domestic or global, private or publicly held, it must take steps to mitigate the dangers that can jeopardize its brand, reputation, and success.
Many companies reach out to experts like Hunt for guidance. As a principal consultant and adviser at Spark Compliance Consulting, Hunt helps multinational corporations build award-winning ethics and compliance programs. She brings more than two decades of management experience to the role, including leadership positions in health care and food service, as well as 10 years with the AARP.
“Being in compliance has been a very fulfilling career path,” Hunt says. “It’s been an opportunity to help people make ethical decisions.”
Hunt shares her expertise and real-world knowledge with students in the School of Law’s MJ and LLM programs in Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management, co-teaching the online course “Compliance and Culture” with Steve Naughton, director of Loyola’s Center for Compliance Studies.
Guest lecturers are a highlight of the course. Past speakers have included a whistleblower, compliance officers, and chief risk officers. Students also engage in a group project where they present with their fellow classmates on why corporations need effective ethics and compliance programs.
“These are truly executive-level programs,” Hunt says. “Many students have already worked as compliance professionals but are looking to advance and be promoted. Some have less experience than others, but they all derive great value during their time here.”
Hunt’s commitment to the next generation of compliance experts goes beyond teaching and consulting. With Caitlyn Tobey, a privacy professional, Hunt launched “The Seven Elements Book Club.” Named after the federal sentencing guidelines, this virtual book club of 225 members meets 10 times annually for author chats and breakout sessions. Compliance enthusiasts can also catch Hunt on the “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, where she serves as a co-host for roundtable discussions.
“The focus is really on creating a community and ‘sending the elevator back down’ to ensure individuals have the opportunity for professional development and knowledge sharing so they can advance in their careers,” Hunt says. “We’re spreading the message that this field is pretty awesome.” –Kelsey Schagemann (September 2024)