Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
There was a time when many executives could treat corporate values as a branding exercise, a recruiting line, or a paragraph on the company website. That time is over. Today,…
The Delaware Court of Chancery has handed compliance leaders and boards a timely lesson: generative AI is not a substitute for judgment, legal discipline, or governance. When leaders use AI…
Artificial intelligence may be built on data, models, and code, but governance ultimately rests on people. For boards and Chief Compliance Officers, one of the most important questions is not…
One of the clearest AI governance challenges facing companies today is not a failure of ambition. It is a failure of pacing. Put simply, strategy is moving faster than governance….
In this blog post, we turn to the fourth major governance challenge in AI: ongoing monitoring. This is one of the most persistent weaknesses in AI governance. Organizations may build…
Artificial intelligence may look like a technology story on the surface, but beneath that surface lies a governance reality every board and Chief Compliance Officer must confront. AI systems are…
For boards and Chief Compliance Officers, AI governance does not begin with the model. It begins with oversight, accountability, and the discipline to define who owns risk, who makes decisions,…
AI is not simply a technology deployment question. It is a corporate governance challenge that requires board attention, compliance discipline, and operational oversight. For Chief Compliance Officers and board members,…
Brené Brown’s blunt warning about toxic leadership is really a compliance warning: when fear, cruelty, and intimidation become normalized management tools, misconduct risk rises, speak-up culture collapses, and the compliance…
It is with no small amount of pride that I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book, The Game Is Afoot in Compliance. The book was sponsored…
