About Todd R. Corbett, MBA

Todd R. Corbett, MBA is the founder of Xcelus LLC, where he has spent 21+ years designing scenario-based compliance training for organizations including AXA XL, Hitachi, and Thermo Fisher. Xcelus programs reach more than 400,000 employees a year across 25+ countries. He created the Decision Readiness Engine™, the framework behind Xcelus courses, Decision Briefs™, and the Executive Decision Lab™. Xcelus builds the decision architecture; a client's own counsel owns the legal analysis.

Is Your Compliance Training Program Designed for an Audit — or for Behavior Change?

By |2026-05-05T13:40:15-06:00April 17th, 2026|Compliance Blog, Scenario-based Compliance Training|

Is Your Compliance Training Program Designed for an Audit — or for Behavior Change? The Real Test of Compliance Training An employee is under pressure to close a deal before the quarter's end.A vendor relationship feels routine, but something is slightly off.The rules were covered in training. But in that moment, the question isn’t:“Do I remember the policy?” It’s:“Is this okay… or not?” This is where compliance programs are actually tested.Not during training. Not during an audit. But in [...]

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Where Is My Company’s Code of Conduct? Why the Better Question Is Whether Your Employees Need to Find It.

By |2026-04-16T10:53:55-06:00April 16th, 2026|Blog/News, Compliance Blog, Scenario-based Compliance Training|

Where Is My Company’s Code of Conduct? Why the Better Question Is Whether Employees Need to Find It Most employees don’t know where their company’s Code of Conduct is. That’s not just a usability issue. It’s a signal that the compliance program may not be designed for the moments when employees actually need it. You completed your annual compliance training in February. You clicked through the Code of Conduct course, passed the knowledge check, and signed the acknowledgment form. [...]

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One Code of Conduct, Two Training Programs: Why Field Employees Need Different Scenarios Than Office Employees

By |2026-04-06T15:49:59-06:00April 6th, 2026|Compliance Blog|

One Code of Conduct, Two Training Programs: Why Field Employees Need Different Scenarios Than Office Employees Every organization with a Code of Conduct wants the same thing: employees who recognize compliance risks and know what to do when they encounter one. The Code of Conduct applies to everyone. The training that makes it effective isn't. For organizations with both office and field workforces — manufacturers, energy companies, construction firms, logistics operations, mining companies — a single compliance training program [...]

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Conflict of Interest vs. Protecting Confidential Information: What’s the Difference?

By |2026-04-02T08:32:30-06:00April 2nd, 2026|Compliance Blog|

Conflict of Interest vs. Protecting Confidential Information: What's the Difference? Compliance officers frequently encounter this question — often from employees who are genuinely confused rather than trying to avoid accountability. The two topics appear on the same training list, are covered in the same Code of Conduct, and both involve situations in which personal interests or relationships intersect with professional responsibilities. So what actually separates them? The distinction matters because the training required to prevent each type of violation [...]

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Why Code of Conduct Training Fails to Change Behavior — And What Actually Works

By |2026-04-01T17:26:38-06:00April 1st, 2026|Compliance Blog|

Why Code of Conduct Training Fails to Change Behavior — And What Actually Works Most organizations have Code of Conduct training. Most employees complete it. And most compliance officers know — often with uncomfortable certainty — that completing the training is not the same as understanding it, and understanding it is not the same as applying it when a real situation arises. The question worth asking is why. Not because the answer is mysterious, but because identifying the specific [...]

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Why Your Leadership Team Needs Different Social Media Training Than Your Employees

By |2026-03-26T14:32:21-06:00March 26th, 2026|Compliance Blog, Todd's Blog|

Why Your Leadership Team Needs Different Social Media Training Than Your EmployeesMost organizations approach social media compliance training as a single program — one course, one policy, one audience. That approach misses the point entirely.The compliance risk a vice president carries on LinkedIn is fundamentally different from the risk a customer service representative carries on Twitter. Treating them identically doesn't protect your organization. It creates a false sense of coverage while leaving your highest-risk employees undertrained.A more effective approach recognizes [...]

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AI Acceptable Use Policy: The Five Decisions It Misses

By |2026-09-01T12:15:42-06:00March 16th, 2026|Compliance Blog, Todd's Blog|

Your AI Acceptable Use Policy Names the Tools. Employees Are Making Five Decisions It Never Mentions. Sarah works in marketing. She's preparing a presentation for an important client meeting the next morning. To save time, she opens a public AI tool and uploads a draft of the company's internal market analysis report. She asks the AI to summarize the document and generate a polished executive overview. Within seconds, the AI produces a clean summary that looks perfect for the [...]

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How the Forgetting Curve Appears in Compliance Training

By |2026-03-06T19:31:06-07:00March 6th, 2026|Blog/News|

How the Forgetting Curve Appears in Compliance Training Many organizations achieve impressive completion rates for annual compliance training. Employees complete required courses, acknowledge company policies, and pass knowledge checks that demonstrate awareness of key rules. However, compliance decisions rarely occur during training. They occur months later, during routine business activities when employees are navigating vendor relationships, contract discussions, or internal decisions. This gap between training and real-world decisions has led many organizations to explore scenario-based compliance training and other [...]

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Why Employees Break Rules They Already Know at Work

By |2026-03-29T08:42:43-06:00March 6th, 2026|Blog/News, Compliance Blog, Todd's Blog|

Why Employees Break Rules They Already Know at Work If compliance were simply a matter of "knowing the rules," every company with a 98% completion rate would be 100% safe. But we know that isn't the case. When a major compliance failure hits the headlines, the investigation rarely finds that the employee "didn't know" the policy. More often, they knew the rule, they had passed the test, and they still made a high-risk decision. The question isn’t what they [...]

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Why Scenario-Based Training Improves Real Compliance Decisions

By |2026-03-29T08:50:30-06:00March 6th, 2026|Compliance Blog, Scenario-based Compliance Training, Todd's Blog|

Why Scenario-Based Training Improves Real Compliance Decisions Many organizations report high completion rates for compliance training, yet still encounter situations where employees hesitate or make uncertain decisions. This gap often occurs because training is completed months before employees encounter a real compliance situation. Scenario-based training focuses on the moment when employees must actually make a decision. Scenario-based compliance training helps employees practice recognizing decision moments before they encounter them in real workplace situations. Many employees complete annual compliance training [...]

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