Wednesday, June 26 | 8:30–9:45 AM
CPE: 1.5
Level: Overview
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics
Why do good people make bad decisions? This ethics session will change your ideas regarding how honest people behave. Using behavioral economics, neuroscience and videos, this interactive session will have you rethinking what you thought you knew
about people.
You Will Learn How To:
- Recognize the importance of tone at the top for any organization
- Identify inexpensive or free tweaks that might deter fraud
- Determine how people justify their behavior and look at themselves at the end of the day
- Recognize that money can be replaced but trust is much harder to regain
Kelly Paxton, CFE
Principal, K Paxton LLC
Kelly Paxton has more than 13 years of law enforcement experience and is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Private Investigator and social media intelligence analyst.
Paxton started her career in law enforcement as a special agent for the U.S. Customs Office of Investigations in 1993. She was recruited by U.S. Customs for her expertise in finance. Paxton worked white-collar fraud, money laundering and narcotics
cases. She also was responsible for the district’s undercover operations and financial reporting of these operations. Paxton worked as a contract investigator doing more than 1,000 security background investigations for the Office of Personnel
Management and Department of Homeland Security.
Paxton has worked in the public and private sector. Her investigations include embezzlement, conflict of interest, intellectual property, Open Source Intelligence and fraud. She is also the proud owner of Pinkcollarcrime.com, a passion of hers,
about embezzlers in the workplace.