How to Hop your Compliance Program Up on Goofballs - Episode 208

Struggling with compliance chaos? Discover how to transform it into clarity and confidence with Adam Goslin's expert insights. This episode of Compliance Unfiltered unveils a practical framework to streamline your compliance efforts, making them efficient and scalable. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls like over-relying on IT and siloed processes that hinder growth. Adam shares real-world strategies, including leveraging third-party consultants and creating centralized repositories, to protect against personnel turnover and enhance transparency. Whether you're starting out or refining your program, this episode offers actionable guidance to build a resilient compliance operation that supports growth and reduces risk. Perfect for compliance officers, IT leaders, and CEOs ready to stop firefighting and start leading with confidence. Tune in to learn how to turn compliance from a daunting task into a strategic advantage.

Episode Transcript:

Why do organizations struggle optimizing their compliance programs Adam?

Well, you know, for, you know, for a lot of organizations, they, you know, they, they, they kind of, they, they kind of keep doing what they did, um, you know, type of a deal, you know, but before I founded TCT, you know, I was leading a compliance function at a company and, uh, I remember, you know, just how much of a struggle it was to manage, manage things efficiently while leading a team of control owners and, you know, basically just muscling my way through the process. And so, you know, kind of, I've been there, um, you know, it's, it's, it's real easy for the, I, I, I love the, you know, I, I called the executive fly by, right? Hey, uh, you know, you guys go do that compliance thing and, uh, you know, let us know when you're done, you know, if they go off to their corner office and, you know, sipping their Mai ties and da, da, da. Meanwhile, there's all hell breaking loose behind the scenes, et cetera. So, yeah, I know damn well, the listeners are sitting there chuckling because they know exactly what it's like.

Um, you know, but, you know, between the fly by to, you know, tell, tell the team to go get her done and, you know, actually getting there, there's a tremendous amount of pain, blood, sweat, tears, you know, that happens, you know, between those two points and, you know, the, the compliance managers are, you know, kind of left with the notion of having to carry the load and figuring out how to do it, you know, for even for big organizations, you know, they, yeah, they got large budgets and all that fun stuff, but because they're a big organization, the landscape of compliance is, you know, that much more complicated. So, you know, as organizations grow, they're, you know, their compliance programs just get increasingly complex and making it, you know, more challenging to, you know, to run an effective engagement. So, you know, uh, most of them just, you know, kind of find a way to make it happen. Um, and it's, it's usually involves, uh, heavy doses of, you know, I, I love to call it human glue, but you know, it's basically, you know, sheer human grit, determination to, you know, to force this thing to get over the line, you know, type of a deal. And it doesn't necessarily, uh, you know, kind of equate to, um, a, uh, a smooth process, efficient, effective, or anything on those lines.

Now, IT is known as like, at least in our world, as the cool kids, right? So does that necessarily make them good at leading compliance?

No, and that's one of the biggest misnomers that a lot of organizations will make. They're like, oh, well, you know, so-and-so, Mary, Bob, you know, choose the name. You know, they're in IT, so they must know how to do this stuff.