Talking about oneself does not come easily to some of us. This can get in the way of building trust with the people we work with. But how much should you share and how much is TMI – too much information?
In the spirit of building trust, I thought I might risk sharing a few things about myself.
To start with I am the CEO and founder of Lean Compliance. I started this business in 2017 to help forward-looking compliance leaders succeed at keeping their organizations between the lines and ahead of risk. To achieve this success, I believe that compliance must be more proactive, integrative, and capable to contend with risk to ensure total value is protected and created. This requires a new approach that aligns more with operational excellence than it does audit and reporting.
I am currently authoring a book on the topic of, "Operational Compliance: Staying Between the Lines and Ahead of Risk". This is based on my experience across my career working for hundreds of organizations and companies in highly regulated, high-risk industries and lessons learned making compliance work. This has given me a unique perspective having witnessed how safety, security, sustainability, quality, environmental, legal, and regulatory programs and technologies are used to advance compliance outcomes.
I also write and publish weekly blog articles, and speak on the topics of risk, compliance, ethics, AI, and Lean principles and practices. I recently started a community of practice to help all compliance practitioners across all sectors elevate their compliance. This community meets every Monday @ Noon on Zoom.
I chair the AI Committee at E4P (Engineers for the Profession) advocating for the recognition and right to practice for emerging engineering disciplines. As a profession we need to do more to elevate the role engineering across the multiple disciplines that are needed today such as AI engineering, Cybersecurity, Quantum and many others.
As a professional engineer I recognize that I have a duty to uphold the public welfare as paramount and this informs my work and how I engage with clients, my community, and others to advance human flourishing. In many ways, this has raised my ethical standards which I hope will in turn do the same for my clients.
In conjunction with my church, I also facilitate a monthly Biz Group for christian business leaders to help connect our faith with our practice. Ultimately, how we lead is grounded by the values we hold and what we believe demonstrated by our actions. Aligning these is a measure of Integrity and is something we must all continue to work on.
I also have three wonderful grown kids and the best wife a man could ever have. I don’t believe we come into this world half complete in need of someone to complete us. However, my wife has added more to my life than I could have imagined making it better than I thought possible. Finding a life partner is indeed a wonderful thing.
So, now you know a little more about me.
How about you?
How did you get into compliance, and what are you currently working on?
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