Nick Gallo (ngallo@complianceline.com) and Gio Gallo (ggallo@complianceline.com) are Co-CEOs of ComplianceLine and lifelong students of healthy workplace cultures, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

The norms, values, and systems that make up your culture can be a powerful protection against misbehavior, risk, and damage to your employees, but can they protect your company from sociopaths?

Sociopathy is defined as “indicative of having a sense of morality and a well-developed conscience, but the sense of right and wrong is not that of the parent culture.”^[1] Some estimate that these traits are present in 1%–4% of the population.^[2] So if someone with this predisposition finds their way onto your employee roster, how might they be impervious to all of that compliance culture you’re building?