Compliance Chronicles with Liisa Thomas

About Compliance Chronicles with Liisa Thomas

Working in privacy or compliance today means doing organizational change in an AI‑driven world, often without a playbook. Compliance Chronicles brings you lessons with leaders who have navigated that reality, using a simple structure in every episode: their career journey, the challenges they faced, the lessons they took away, and the advice they have for you. Compliance Chronicles is a practical, conversation‑driven podcast for privacy, cyber, and compliance professionals who are being asked to “figure out” AI, data protection, and regulatory change while still handling their day‑to‑day work. Liisa’s practice focuses on helping companies design and mature AI and privacy governance programs, and this show reflects the real questions clients bring into that work. Hosted by law firm partner and adjunct professor Liisa Thomas, the show is designed for CLOs, CPOs, CISOs, CCOs and their teams who need to create workable solutions to tricky AI, privacy, and cyber compliance problems. In her conversations with leaders across the industry, Liisa draws on her legal and organizational change experience helping companies build privacy and AI governance to ask the questions you wish you could have, and to surface patterns you can reuse with your own teams. In each episode, Liisa interviews leaders in the industry who share their career journey, the challenges they have faced and lessons they learned along the way, and their parting advice for others walking a similar path. Guests talk openly about moving skeptical businesses, working with boards and regulators, and operationalizing privacy, cyber, and AI governance in complex, fast‑moving environments. Whether you are new to privacy or a seasoned CPO, you will hear relatable stories, hard‑won lessons, and human‑centered strategies you can apply in your own organization. If you’re wrestling with AI, privacy and cyber governance in your own organization, you will also hear how Liisa approaches these issues in her work with clients. You can find all episodes at https://www.compliance-chronicles.com (https://www.compliance-chronicles.com).

Publisher

Liisa Thomas

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2026

Latest episode

28 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 22 episodes have a transcript.

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   28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Balancing Speed, Rigor, and Trust in Compliance Leadership with Ely Juarez Pennant (Ep. 22)

   Host Liisa Thomas interviews Ely Juarez Pennant, a privacy and AI governance leader, on balancing speed and rigor in compliance for tech companies.

2. 

   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Finding Champions for Compliance with Kristin Greenhaw (Ep. 21)

   Host Liisa Thomas interviews Chief Legal Officer Kristin Greenhaw about building privacy and compliance champions within evolving regulatory landscapes.

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   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Building Compliance Consensus in Complex Systems with Justin Martin (Ep. 20)

   Host Liisa Thomas interviews Justin Martin, a technical executive, about building compliance consensus in complex electrical engineering systems by translating technical tradecraft for diverse stakeholders.

Inside a recent episode

Balancing Speed, Rigor, and Trust in Compliance Leadership with Ely Juarez Pennant (Ep. 22)

Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So what are some of those challenges, ways you've overcome those challenges? I think there's some small challenges that you overcome, but there's an overarching one that I think I can remember from day one, my first in-house job to this morning. And that issue or that tension between speed And like how fast do you get things done? How fast do you respond? Are you managing risk? Are you triaging? How do you position yourself with the business like that? That changes. But there's always a tension between speed and rigor and somehow you factor in risk in that equation. You're not necessarily there to rubber stamp everything just because you happen to be illegal, but you're also not there as a blocker. […]

Who has been a guest on Compliance Chronicles with Liisa Thomas

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• Ely Juarez Pennant
• Kristin Greenhaw
• Justin Martin
• Corey Tanner
• Jay Cohen

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

36 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

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