The Board Accountability Contract (Workbook)

The Board Accountability Contract (Workbook) is a carousel and self-assessment covering ten issues in the "contract" between compliance and the Board. It makes the implicit contract explicit — what each side commits to do for the other — and includes a scored self-assessment to test where your Board relationship stands and where the gaps are.

The Board Accountability Contract (Infographic)

The Board Accountability Contract is an infographic setting out the working "contract" between compliance and the Board: ten issues, two columns, what each side commits to do for the other. It replaces the one-directional version — compliance owes the Board everything, the Board owes compliance very little — with a two-way relationship that actually works.

The 5 Things I Want My Board to Know

The 5 Things I Want My Board to Know is a guide to the five things a Board needs to genuinely understand about compliance, not as updates in a monthly report, but as the basis for decision support and shared accountability. This is for compliance leaders whose Board engagement has settled into report review rather than governance.

Designing Your Compliance Framework for the Board

Designing Your Compliance Framework for the Board is a guide setting out five design principles for compliance frameworks that produce Board decisions rather than a simple "nod and move on". It is for compliance leaders who want the Board to be part of the governance framework, not just an audience for it. It helps compliance leaders design their framework for the Board from the start rather than presenting it to them at the end.

The Compliance Cost Equation

The Compliance Cost Equation is a carousel setting out what compliance actually costs a firm. Four cost buckets, of which the team budget is roughly a quarter, compared with what non-compliance would cost, including the 2.71× rule. This is for compliance leaders making the resourcing case to a Board that only sees the salary line.