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Compliance thinking for business change.
Innovation in Compliance with Tom Fox treats compliance as an operating discipline shaped by technology, leadership, and risk decisions. Recent conversations range from AI agents and board oversight to GRC, medical-device approval, energy investment, fraud prevention, and executive presence.
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Innovation in Compliance with Tom Fox presents compliance as a practical discipline for moments when organizations are trying to change. The show’s recent run is centered on governance, risk, AI, trust, and leadership. It does not stay inside a narrow legal or policy lane. Conversations connect GRC to law firm leadership, AI agents to board oversight, and digital maturity to the everyday problem of moving from pilot projects to scalable systems. The show also reaches into medical innovation, energy markets, fraud prevention, and personal branding when those subjects raise compliance questions. That breadth gives the series a useful shape. A listener hears compliance not as a department waiting at the end of a process, but as part of how the process is designed. The interviews often ask how rules, controls, and human judgment can be built into work from the beginning. AI appears repeatedly, especially around guardrails, data boundaries, trust, policy-as-code, and oversight. GRC appears as a working language for legal, risk, audit, and business roles. Risk is treated as something leaders identify, assess, manage, and sometimes use to support better action. The medical-device conversation adds a concrete regulatory lens through FDA pathways, feasibility work, data storage, and safety monitoring. The Venezuela energy episode moves into investment uncertainty, debt, legal agreements, and the difficulty of rebuilding production capacity. Personal branding and fraud prevention widen the frame further, tying reputation, visibility, generative AI, and product development back to compliance concerns. Tom Fox keeps the pace conversational but pointed. He tends to ask for backgrounds, frameworks, examples, and implications for the compliance professional. The strongest episodes make specialized subjects legible without sanding off the business detail. The show suits a listener who wants to hear how compliance thinking applies before a decision becomes a problem. It is not only about avoiding misconduct. It is about building systems that can withstand speed, novelty, and scrutiny.
Made for: Suits a listener who works near compliance, risk, legal, audit, governance, or enterprise technology and wants business-facing conversations rather than abstract policy talk.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating compliance as a bridge across AI, GRC, medical innovation, energy, fraud prevention, and leadership, with each topic pulled back toward operational responsibility.
Innovation in compliance brings you interviews with industry leading experts who are changing the way practitioners approach compliance. Host Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist and Voice of Compliance is driving the conversation about compliance into the 2020s and beyond with his focus on innovations for the compliance practitioner and the compliance profession. If you want to learn how to bring business solutions to compliance problems to more fully operationalize compliance, this is the podcast for you.
Tom Fox takes you from AI agent guardrails to spine surgery without letting compliance leave the room.
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Carol Switzer connects GRC's technology evolution to the legal profession's expanding business role.
Carol Switzer's conversation with Tom Fox frames GRC as a technology story with real legal and business consequences. Her books, Mastering GRC: The Lawyer's Guide to Success in Governance, Risk, and Compliance and The AI-enabled Law Firm, give the discussion its central thread:…
A neurosurgeon’s feasibility study becomes a clear look at FDA review, data oversight, and compliance in device development.
Innovation in Compliance uses a new neurosurgical device to make healthcare innovation feel less abstract and more procedural. Dr. Rohan Lal, a clinically trained neurosurgeon, walks through the difference between a modest change to an existing device, which may fit a…
A grounded look at turning agentic AI from open-ended promise into a bounded compliance function.
Agentic AI takes on a more practical compliance form here, as Aravind Parthasarathy of New Rocket moves the discussion from minimum viable products to minimum viable functions.
A boardroom-minded guide to moving AI from pilot purgatory toward governed use.
AI adoption gets a pragmatic boardroom treatment through Nav Thetty's work with Hitachi, Fidelity, and other Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.
Jim Massey reframes risk as a path toward innovation, with action at the center of compliance thinking.
Jim Massey's Risk in Action gives compliance a more useful place in the innovation conversation: risk becomes a way forward when leaders act with clarity.
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
Tom Fox interviews cybersecurity expert Robert Meyers about challenges and solutions in data protection and compliance innovation.
Carol Switzer says lawyers need business judgment, technology fluency, and a hard line between legal advice and business advice as AI accelerates change in the profession.
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Innovation and Compliance with Tom Fox focuses on Aravind Parthasarathy of New Rocket and his case for moving from minimum viable product to minimum viable function in agentic AI.
Tom Fox's Innovation in Compliance episode has Nav Thethi mapping AI readiness, board oversight, and digital maturity for compliance leaders.
Loren Steffy says Venezuela’s heavy crude requires specialized extraction, with some break-even estimates reaching $80 a barrel.
["Innovation and Compliance with Tom Fox brings back Jim Massey to discuss Risk in Action, The Leader's Guide to Act with Clarity, and his line that risk is 'the simple gap between where we are and where we need to go.'", "Massey says trust is 'the bridge' and fear is 'the fog,' which is why he keeps returning to action as the thing leaders can actually do.", "He uses AstraZeneca, a 30-page code of conduct cut to one page, and a 3M Post-it example to show how compliance can support innovation instead of stopping it.", "The episode ends with Eastward Inc., AI-generated risk cards, and real-time assessments built from ISO, COSO, and CSRD for audit-committee conversations."]
Evan Sampson says healthcare compliance reviews can find downcoding that leaves reimbursement unclaimed and inefficiencies that waste money.
Tim Khamzin says Vivox aims to automate 80–90% of manual compliance work while leaving final decisions to people.
Tom Fox interviews personal branding expert Sheila Anderson about the importance of image and visibility for corporate leaders.
Jack Yu from Experian discusses advancements in AI technology for fraud prevention strategies in compliance.
Tom Fox interviews cybersecurity expert Robert Meyers about data protection, privacy, and innovative compliance solutions.
Tom Fox interviews John Kormanik about his book 'Five Lies Lawyers Tell Themselves' and how to avoid burnout and stress.