Risky Women Radio

Kimberley Cole speaks with Jennifer Geary, a 25-year veteran of the Risk industry, about her handbook for the modern Chief Risk Officer - practical advice, and skills you can bring into your own role as a CRO. Jennifer Geary has over 25 years of experience in finance, technology, risk and legal, across diverse industries from financial services to not-for-profit. She has been Managing Director, EMEA for a software company, and COO and CRO for a number of fintechs. She has also worked in major banks such as Santander and Barclays, and was also COO for Save the Children UK. She is author of a range of business books. Her first book was "How to be a Chief Operating Officer” and she followed up last autumn with "How to be a Chief Risk Officer", and has just launched “How to be a Chief People Officer”, a collaboration with a HR professional. SHOW NOTES 02:03 Career Journey 05:00 Doing Good for Social Good 10:00 Jennifer's 3 Books: How to be a COO, CRO, CPO 13:20 3 Pillars: Culture, Strategy & Execution. 6 Risk

Tonya Hummers, Managing Director at Protiviti, speaks with Sarah Olthoff, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Risk Officer at Discover, about talent management, the nature of work, and the skills risk roles need most. Sarah K. Olthoff serves as a Senior Vice President of Business Risk Programs at Discover Financial Services.  In this role, Sarah is responsible for development, implementation, and oversight of the business risk management program across the enterprise.  This program include the Business Risk Offices that directly support Discover’s business units as well as centralized risk management functions that enable consistent and effective execution of risk activities, such as Change Management, Issue Management, and Risk Reporting.  Prior to this role, Sarah served as VP, Internal Audit overseeing the Regulatory Compliance Audit Program, which provides independent assurance around regulatory compliance and financial crimes risk. Show Notes 01:57 Career Journey 03:51 Culture at Discover 08:58 Who

Maryann Kennedy speaks with the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Grovetta Gardineer, about the regulatory priorities in current economic environment. Grovetta Gardineer is the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). In this role, Ms. Gardineer directs the formulation of policies and procedures for the supervision and examination of national banks and federal savings associations, chairs the agency’s Committee on Bank Supervision, and serves on the OCC’s Executive Committee. She oversees the units for policy related to credit risk, market risk, operational risk, and compliance risk, as well as the units responsible for international banking and capital policy, accounting policy, and community affairs. Maryann Kennedy joined Protiviti from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where she was most recently the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervisi

Kimberley Cole speaks with Anna-Marie Slot on how companies can and should embed ESG into core business strategies and why risk professionals are uniquely placed to drive that change. Anna-Marie is the first global sustainability ESG partner for Ashurst and a finance partner as well. She brings a unique combination of legal, finance and ESG expertise which enables her to partner with other business leaders committed to leading a future focused sustainable organizations. Anna-Marie has developed and led the firm’s ESG strategy across practices and industries through engagement with clients and internally as Ashurst’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. Show Notes  01:57 Career Journey 10:35 What Businesses Have to Focus On Now 15:32 Organizational Structure and Where Risk Works 18:24 Ashurst’s ESG Ready Digital Tool 22:12 What are the Sustainability Data Gaps? 30:22 What the Best Companies are Doing Ahead of Regulations Transcript and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2023/03/podcast-s6e4-amplifying-esg-busines

Kimberley Cole speaks with Juliet Bourke on board composition and best practices for creating future fit organisations with diversity of thought and culture change.  Dr Juliet Bourke is an award winning author, speaker and advocate for diversity. She was a former Human Capital Partner at Deloitte leading Deloitte’s Diversity and Inclusion Consulting agenda. She continues to work with global clients to create cultural change through a focus on leadership, high performing teams, and diversity & inclusion. She has over 25 years’ experience in human capital, management, and law. Her latest book, entitled ‘Which two heads are better than one?: The extraordinary power of diversity of thinking and inclusive leadership’, is in its second edition and helps leaders understand how to systematically create diverse thinking and take team performance to the next level. SHOW NOTES 01:28 Career Journey 13:09 Future Fitness of Boards 18:31 Risks of not Having Diversity of Thinking on Boards 22:19 What Gets in the Way of B

Kimberley Cole speaks with Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese from Protiviti. We’re thrilled that they are back again to talk about the top of mind compliance priorities for 2023. Show Notes 03:29 Examples of the risks in the uncertainty category 07:14 Technology trends that will impact compliance 09:54 Financial Crime compliance 12:23 How to keep compliance teams motivated 14:12 Advice to chief compliance officers in 2023 17:01 What will compliance departments look like in 10 years?   Transcipt & links to reports: https://www.riskywomen.org/2023/02/podcast-s6e2-top-compliance-priorities-2023/

Kimberley Cole speaks with Stacey English and Susannah Hammond of Theta Lake about the risks modern communication platforms bring, recent regulatory actions, and what you can do to be compliant without turning off features in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral! Show Notes 02:04 Career Journeys 08:37 Top Skills for the Ultimate Compliance Professional 17:19 How the Way We Communicate Has Changed 22:20 Privacy & Data Security 27:46 Using Emojis 31:05 Biggest Takeaways from Communications Risk Report Transcripts and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2023/02/podcast-s6e1-communications-compliance-stacey-english-susannah-hammond/

Kimberley Cole talks with Rahmat Amanullah, Director South Asia at Control Risks, about intelligence, investigations and integrity in risk and what we can learn from some of the world's most complex sectors like pharmaceuticals and alcoholic beverages. Show Notes01:29 Career Journey 16:30 The 3 I's of Risk: Intelligence, Investigations and Integrity 23:01 Lessons from India's Alcoholic Beverage Industry 34:44 Why Business Schools Need to Teach Risk & Compliance 39:07 Rants & Revelations Transcripts & Subscribe: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/12/podcast-s5e10-the-3-is-of-risk-rahmat-amanullah/

Denis Camilo, Risk and Compliance Director at Protiviti, talks with Lauren Munfa, Head of Americas Investment Bank C&ORC at UBS, about how much her parent management training translated to running a large compliance program. SHOW NOTES 00:51 Career Journey 03:58 Top Skills for Risk Management 08:05 The Importance of Immediate and Consistent Rewards 15:49 How to Give an Effective Command 21:26 How Root Cause Analysis Applies at Home and in the Office Transcripts and subscribe to newsletter: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/11/podcast-s5e9-how-children-have-made-me-a-better-compliance-leader-lauren-munfa/

Kimberley Cole talks with Rupal Patel, Head of Data Insights & Risk Intelligence at Acin and Founder of Women in Risk and Control, about moving operational risk from a solely qualitative discipline to a data led one and why connection and networks are key! Show Notes 01:51 Career Journey 12:46 Biggest Risks 20:53 Women in Risk and Control 27:51 Acin & Op Risk Ahead 46:50 Rants & Revelations Transcripts and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/11/podcast-s5e8-taking-control-rupal-patel/

Shaheen Dil, Senior Managing Director of Protiviti, in conversation with Ximena Zambrano, Senior Vice President and Head of Model Validation at Wells Fargo on the evolution of risk analytics and technological advances in data science (AKA are machines taking over?) Show Notes 03:37 Career Journey 07:08 Key Risks Ahead 10:21 Advanced Analytics & Unintended Consequences 20:02 New Skills Needed 25:42 Advice for Successful Leaders Transcript & more on risk > https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/10/podcast-s5e7-risk-analytics-ximena-zambrano/

Kimberley Cole talks with our first Risky Man Nathan Lynch, a regulatory intelligence professional and author of The Lucky Laundry. They discuss the real world outcomes of financial crime, the status of Australia and how compliance and risk professionals are critically important to prevention. SHOW NOTES 01:41 Career Journey 12:04 The Lucky Laundry Book 16:56 Australia Situation & AUSTRAC 29:06 Role & Skills for AML Pros 36:05 Rants & Revelations 41:55 Recommendations Transcript and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/10/podcast-s5e6-the-lucky-laundry-nathan-lynch/

Kimberley Cole talks with Catherine Fox, award winning journalist and author of Stop Fixing Women, about diversity risk and the need to invest in women.  This is the first of our Risk Radar Series which takes a 360 degree view of risks facing leaders, everyone from boards to management teams and individuals.  Show Notes 02:24 Career Journey 09:28 Key Gender Diversity Issues 12:13 What Does Merit Really Mean 14:29 Lean Out 19:21 Stop Fixing Women 28:12 Rants & Revelations 32:01 Recommendations sign up: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/09/podcast-s5e5-stop-fixing-women-catherine-fox/

Christine Halvorsen, Managing Director of Protiviti, talks with Lynn Haaland, Zoom’s Chief Compliance Ethics and Privacy Officer, and Deputy General Counsel.  They discuss everything from how Lynn joined Zoom only weeks before COVID-19 pandemic changed the world and Zoom to the next big challenges ahead in privacy and cybersecurity compliance. Show Notes 01:55 Career Journey – Joining Zoom at Start of COVID-19 11:01 Advice for Startups Moving into Growth Mode 16:58 Biggest Privacy & Compliance Challenges Ahead 33:39 ESG & ERM Strategy 42:45 Measuring Success 48:24 Public Private Partnership Transcript, video and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/09/podcast-s5e4-privacy-security-compliance-at-zoom-lynn-haaland/

Shelley Metz-Galloway, US lead of Protiviti’s regulatory compliance practice, talks with Mary Bailey, regulatory compliance expert, about the US Community Reinvestment Act and how upcoming changes to the rule should improve access to credit and have a big impact on banks’ compliance and reporting. Show Notes 01:37 Career Journey 08:21 International Efforts 10:19 CRA and Fair Lending 12:31 What the CRA Changes Mean for Banks Learn more and subscribe: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/06/podcast-s5e3-cra-and-fair-lending-mary-bailey/

Jackie Sanz of Protiviti talks with Amy Aubin, a CCO of two firms in Canada, about compliance and risk challenges faced by compliance professionals of smaller firms in the asset management industry, where innovation and access to compliance networks are of importance in the management of risk. Show Notes 02:13 Career journey 06:08 Risks in Smaller vs Larger Asset Management Firms 14:01 Lasting Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic 17:41 Hiring Compliance for Small Firms 22:53 Top Risks in Current Environment 27:39 Advice for future CCOs Subscribe & More > https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/04/podcast-s5e2-compliance-risk-challenges-for-small-asset-management-firms-amy-aubin/

Kimberley Cole speaks with senior risk and compliance leaders at Protiviti about financial services industry compliance priorities for 2022: traditional issues like financial crime, broader risk mandates, ESG, culture and conduct, vulnerable customers, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and more. Show Notes 03:05 Career journey 06:08 What’s different for 2022 10:13 Key challenges 15:29 Compliance function’s future 18:33 Innovation examples 20:58 Advice for future CCOs Sign up for more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/02/podcast-s5e1-compliance-priorities-for-2022/

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Carol Beaumier who oversees Protiviti’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice about cyber and ESG risks, talent retention and the consequences of not transforming. Show Notes 02:19 Career journey 06:22 Emerging risks in financial services 09:25 Talent retention 11:00 Consequence of not transforming 11:56 Rants & Revelations 13:15 Rapid Fire Round

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Donna Timlen, CCO of OneMain Financial – America’s largest installment lender, about their compliance transformation: talent, technology, strategy and a root cause focus. Show Notes 02:51 Career journey 07:42 Innovation at OneMain Financial 12:22 Protecting talent 14:37 Technology use 16:24 Root cause focus 18:09 D&I, CSR, ESG 20:22 Rants & Revelations 22:35 Rapid Fire Round

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Sophie Krynauw, Transformation Audit Director at Zurich Insurance, about the future of insurance and workplaces in a digital environment with global collaborative teams focusing on outcomes rather than process. Show Notes 02:31 Career journey 06:45 Transition during COVID-19 10:44 Future of audit 14:22 Workforce sustainability 16:35 How are leading companies succeeding? 20:20 Rants & Revelations 22:43 Rapid Fire Round Transcript > https://www.riskywomen.org/2021/08/podcast-s4e6-workplace-transformation-sophie-krynauw/