Introduction: 0:00

• Introducing Roxanne Petraeus, Co-founder and CEO of Ethena, an all-in-one compliance training platform
• Her experience consulting at McKinsey & Co.
• How she started her career with the U.S. Army 

Finding the inspiration to serve in the military: 1:30

• Joining ROTC to pay for her education at Harvard 
• Serving in Afghanistan during the height of conflict
• Carrying lessons learned from her time in the military

Leaving McKinsey & Company to found Ethena: 6:25

• Having a strong perspective on sexual harassment training
• Weighing in on the sexual harassment trainings provided in the military
• How to make teams more inclusive for women and ensure they can participate effectively

Scaling up content quality alongside technology: 9:04

• Valuing the relationship between technology and content
• Prioritizing personalization to save overall training time for teams
• Understanding that employee distraction is a big problem

What companies are getting wrong about in-house training: 13:34

• Leaning into live instructor-led training
• Outsourcing updates based on changing regulations

Measuring the success of a new compliance training: 16:45

• Merging quantitative data with qualitative employee feedback 
• Incorporating a rating system into Ethena’s personalized online training
• Rolling out an employee hotline and case management tool for employee feedback

Going beyond boring compliance trainings: 17:19

• Recognizing how compliance training can save your company millions of dollars
• Showing regulators that you are taking them seriously
• Cutting training time so leaders don’t feel like they are a burden
• Using tools like phishing simulators 

Observing new trends in compliance training: 20:40

• Customizing training to be role-based 
• Dealing with AI compliance 
• Offering training for managers who don’t know how to recognize issues

Leveraging AI as the founder of a tech company: 23:16

• Incorporating language translation
• Speeding up production and hyper-personalizing content

Selling to Legal and HR teams: 25:56

• Handling objections regarding use of AI
• Building credibility through specific use cases

Difference between small companies and enterprise clients: 29:02

• Working with clients who may not have in-house legal or compliance teams
• Ensuring that compliance ops aren’t a hindrance to growth
• Meeting companies on their compliance maturity journey

Mapping the future for Ethena: 31:50

• Growing the hotline and case management suite 
• Working with larger clients 

Favorite part of your day and pet peeves: 34:12

• Finding joy in being challenged in meetings by people with new ideas
• Disliking corporatisms

Book recommendations: 35:50

• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

What she wish she knew as a young founder: 36:58

• Prioritizing a speedy launch
• Listening to and working with customers to make sure their needs are met.