Format: Online
Internal auditors often find themselves at the intersection of ethics, assurance, and accountability, where difficult conversations are inevitable. In high-stakes environments, how those conversations are handled can either strengthen trust or create barriers to collaboration. This session reimagines internal audit practice through Kindness as Infrastructure®, a systemic framework that integrates emotional intelligence, ethical clarity, and Kind Communication™ to enhance the human architecture of governance. Participants will learn how kindness, when designed into audit culture, strengthens compliance, courage, and psychological safety while improving the quality of assurance relationships. Through practical insights and reflective case examples, attendees will explore how to conduct courageous audit conversations with empathy and authority, balance transparency with tact, and foster cultures where ethical feedback becomes a catalyst for trust rather than tension.
DATE: Jan 13, 2026
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM ET
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One (1) NASBA CPE will only be awarded to participants on the live broadcast who are logged in for a minimum of 50 minutes and engage on at least three poll questions per each hour of the event.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Reframe internal auditing as both an ethical and relational system that underpins governance.
• Apply Kind Communication™ to navigate difficult audit discussions with empathy, clarity, and professionalism.
• Identify how kindness strengthens compliance by building trust, psychological safety, and accountability.
• Integrate emotional intelligence principles into audit and stakeholder dialogue.
• Discover strategies for embedding kindness-based systems that sustain ethical performance and organizational integrity.
SPEAKER
Meral Alizada
Meral Alizada is the originator of Kindness as Infrastructure®, a thought leader, systems thinker, and keynote speaker pioneering kindness as the infrastructure of human civilization. She is the Founder and CEO of Results of Kindness (ROK), the world’s first firm built to design and scale systems of kindness in workplaces, organizations, and communities.
Designed as architecture and scaled as infrastructure, her work positions kindness not as sentiment but as a measurable driver of trust, retention, and performance. Her goal is to help organizations build ecosystems of excellence powered by emotional and ethical intelligence.
As an author and two-time TEDx speaker, Meral is currently writing her flagship book, Kindness as Infrastructure, which moves kindness beyond interpersonal goodwill into the realm of systems where it can be taught, measured, and embedded as enduring civilizational infrastructure.
Through ROK, she has developed original frameworks including the Kindness Mirror Audit™, Inner Leadership™, and Genius Retention™, which diagnose hidden relational risks and redesign the human systems that underpin organizational health.
Meral brings a cross-cultural lens shaped by traditions where generosity and communitarianism are engineered as survival infrastructure. Her neurodivergent empathy and experience in high-turnover environments give her the unique ability to diagnose systemic dysfunction and reimagine human systems that restore dignity and resilience.
SPEAKER
Janet Ghosh
Janet Ghosh is the Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at The IIA.
With more than 25 years of experience, Janet has led talent management, innovation, and leadership development across global organizations, including Stanley Black & Decker and Siemens. She is passionate about people and believes an organization’s talent is a critical differentiator in today’s competitive business environment. Her expertise lies in shaping strategies that not only attract top talent but also foster a culture of continuous growth, collaboration, and excellence.
At The IIA, Janet spearheads the development and implementation of people strategies focused on talent acquisition, employee growth, engagement, learning, diversity, retention, and team collaboration. In close partnership with the leadership team, she plays a key role in building a dynamic, inclusive culture aligned with The IIA’s mission to advance the internal audit profession.
A global citizen, Janet has lived and worked in five countries, bringing diverse cultural perspectives that enrich her leadership and her teams.
She holds an MBA in human resource management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) in Mumbai, India, and is a Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) from the Society for Human Resource Management.