The ancient Greeks described as areté a person’s use of all their faculties, skills and abilities to attain excellence: the highest level of effectiveness. Ethike areté (or moral excellence) is the concept at the heart of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. We believe areté captures well the nature and objective of a fully-functioning, effective compliance program. Achieving successful compliance program outcomes requires an organizational culture that values making the right choices for the right reasons; and connecting that culture with an operational understanding of what must be done by individuals across an organization to put cultural and compliance objectives into practice. At Arete Compliance Solutions our goal is to help every one of our clients achieve areté in the operation of their organizational compliance programs: helping compliance programs achieve their fullest potential so that these programs can, in turn, help organizations succeed.