Taming the Toxic: Whistleblowing and Non-Financial Misconduct Masterclass

For senior leaders, HR and compliance professionals.

The rules on non-financial misconduct and sexual harassment are changing. The cost of getting it wrong has never been higher. Protect’s new masterclass gives you a live, practical deep-dive into:

• The Why: The Regulatory Imperative the Employment Rights Act 2026 and consequences of breaching, the FCA’s NFM rules, reasonable steps: defining the proactive duty to prevent harassment.
• The What & Where: Defining the Toxic Scope bullying, discrimination, and behaviours that signal deeper issues, out-of-office boundaries, recognising when a "one-off" incident can indicate a "toxically contagious" culture.
• The How: Triaging and Investigating Effectively a framework for deciding whether to use a grievance or a whistleblowing process, how to investigative effectively and sensitively, practical application of the ‘balance of probabilities’ standard of proof.
• Empowerment & Accountability: how to overcome barriers to speaking up, how to safeguard the whistleblower, maintain confidentiality, identify victimisation, and embed meaningful change

The masterclass will be delivered by Sybille Raphael. As Joint Chief Executive of Protect, the UK whistleblowing expert, Sybille Raphael is at the forefront of transforming how organisations and our regulatory framework enable speak up. Sybille blends deep legal expertise with a pragmatic understanding of the human realities of whistleblowing. From helping organisation move beyond compliance to create genuine cultures of trust to advising regulators and leading Protect’s legal interventions in key appeal cases supporting their legal reform campaigns, she is on a mission to build more transparent, safe and accountable workplaces.