About

Welcome! Thank you for visiting Radical Compliance, a website devoted to corporate compliance, audit, and risk management issues. We’re delighted to have you here.

Our goal is simple: we want to help corporate compliance, audit, and risk management professionals succeed in your jobs, by providing you with news and analysis on GRC issues both here in the United States and anywhere else in the world. 

This is where we obsess over government regulatory policy and its implications for corporate compliance programs; share best practices we learn from other professionals; and keep compliance officers current on news that’s happening in the compliance field. Radical Compliance also publishes a (free) newsletter every Friday afternoon, including our famous Compliance Jobs Report. 

Radical Compliance is owned and operated by Matt Kelly, long-time writer and observer of the corporate compliance and GRC scene. It launched on Jan. 1, 2016, and we’ve been working to make the GRC world a better place ever since. 

Matt has been writing about compliance issues for nearly 25 years now, speaks frequently at compliance conferences and other events, and will happily shoot the breeze on pretty much any compliance topic with anyone who asks.

If you want more information about this site in general, then check out our FAQs, below.

Q: So what is all this, exactly?
A: Foremost, this is where Matt (and occasionally other guest contributors) posts thoughts about governance, risk, and compliance. Much will be brilliant, some might be garbage; either way, we post them here for anyone who might care to read them. After all, you gotta stay current with your chosen profession, right?

Q: Tell me more about this Friday newsletter and the Compliance Jobs Report.
A: The newsletter comes out every Friday afternoon, so you can look busy in front of the team while you’re really in a food coma and coasting until 5 p.m. The newsletter is free, and you can sign up for it on our home page at the “Get the Friday Newsletter” box on the left.

The Compliance Jobs Report is posted every Friday morning. It’s a compendium of which compliance and audit professionals have made what job moves in the last week, career milestones, news from vendors (product releases, mergers, customer wins, and so forth), GRC events of interest, and cool job openings we’ve noticed. 

If you have news you’d like us to include, email me at [email protected]. 

Q: Wait, are you that guy who makes all the compliance memes? That’s weird, but they’re awesome.
A: That is indeed Matt’s handiwork, and thank you. We have a gallery of several dozen compliance memes on my Compliance Memes page, and hundreds more are floating around on the Internet by now. 

Q: Can I use one of the memes in my next staff meeting?
A: Sure. Just give a shout to Radical Compliance if you can.

Q: Sometimes I can’t access your website at work, although I can reach it from my home computer. Why is that?
A: Most likely, you work either at a government agency or a business with lots of government contract work; your IT security filters might block me because the word “radical” is in the website name. You can ask your IT security people to allow access to my site, and I promise — as mighty and powerful as Radical Compliance is, we pose no threat to the government.

Q: Are you going to charge me for the newsletter?
A: No, there is no subscription fee for Radical Compliance. Sooner or later we will offer a “donate whatever you’d like” option, but Matt has been saying that since 2016.

Q: So how do you make money?
A: Radical Compliance does run occasional advertisements on our website and in our weekly newsletter. If you’re a vendor or organization curious about that, please inquire within.

We can also help compliance, audit, and cybersecurity vendors with other content marketing needs too. If you have an idea for a customer survey to compose and conduct, want a moderator or guest speaker for a webinar, or need someone who knows the material to ghost-write a white paper for the CEO, let us know. We do that stuff all the time.

For compliance officers out there, Matt is available to speak to compliance teams, senior management groups, or boards of directors, if you’re looking for a guest speaker to talk about why strong compliance functions are so important for corporate success or to provide analysis of current compliance, audit, regulatory enforcement, or risk management issues. Depending on the circumstance, we can also help with private consulting work such as policy reviews or program assessments. We charge reasonable rates and never show up drunk. 

Q: You do private consulting? You know, I have this problem where—
A: Shhh! Don’t tell me your idea here! Email me at [email protected] and we can talk. I’m always ready to help someone or just spend time talking shop about corporate compliance or audit.

Q: OK, thanks!