THE ORGANIZATIONAL
COMPLIANCE COURSE

Led by Raimund Laqua, P.Eng., PMP, this course draws from over 30 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing compliance programs across highly regulated industries — energy, oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, finance, government, and high-tech operations.

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Why this course, why now

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Performance and outcome-based obligations now demand compliance programs that can actually deliver on what's been committed — not just document that procedures exist. AI systems make promises on behalf of organizations. ESG commitments cross organizational boundaries. Cyber threats move in milliseconds.

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What compliance is being asked to deliver has outgrown what the current architecture — internal controls, audit, documentation — can produce on its own. This course is for compliance leaders and practitioners ready to elevate organizational compliance for the Intelligence Age.

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The Curriculum

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Eight modules, one per week, covering the principles and practices of organizational compliance:

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• Week 1 — Compliance Purpose · Reconnect compliance to mission, value, and the trust that earns your organization its license to operate

• Week 2 — Uncertainty and Risk · See compliance through the lens of uncertainty — and learn how to manage what threatens your obligations before it becomes incident

• Week 3 — Obligation Management · Know what you've actually committed to — and put owners on every obligation, mandatory and voluntary

• Week 4 — Promise Fulfillment · Turn obligations into operational promises kept by people, systems, and AI agents

• Week 5 — Value Chain Integration · Stop running compliance parallel to operations — integrate it through the value chain where the work actually happens

• Week 6 — Organizational Alignment · Close the gap between what's accountable at the top and what's responsible at the front line

• Week 7 — Operability and Assurance · Move from audit to assurance — forward-looking confidence that promises will continue to be kept

• Week 8 — Compliance Implementation · Choose the right implementation path for your context and build the roadmap that takes you there

Key topics include:

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The Telos of Compliance · Promise Theory and Promise Agents · The Organizational Compliance Framework (OCF) · The Golden Thread of Assurance · Operational Compliance · Total Value Chain Analysis · The Cybernetic Regulator Pattern · Policy Deployment for Compliance · Minimal Viable Compliance · Full-stack Metrics

What you'll leave with

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• The principles and practices of organizational compliance — the body of knowledge that makes compliance operational in the Intelligence Age

• A certificate of completion — the Certificate in Organizational Compliance, signed by Raimund Laqua, P.Eng., issued as a LinkedIn-displayable digital badge

• A cohort of peers — compliance leaders and practitioners across industries and obligation domains

Designed for North American and EU participation

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Tuesdays, 10:00–11:30 AM Eastern (3:00 PM UK · 4:00 PM CET).

Live online with recordings available to all enrolled participants.

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Format and details

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• 8 weeks — Tuesday, July 7 through Tuesday, August 25, 2026

• 90 minutes live per week + 30–60 minutes pre-reading

• Limited to 15 participants

• Investment: $1,200 CAD

• Enrollment closes Friday, June 26, 2026