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Published research spanning AI governance, enterprise risk, brand accountability, and the market forces reshaping GRC. All pieces link to the original publication on Substack.

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What Machiavelli Knew in 1513 That the AI Industry Still Hasn’t Figured Out

How AI built a threatening brand, missed the love boat, and now needs someone else to sail it home.

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EVERYTHING IS FINE (PROBABLY)

A CISO’s guide to proving agentic AI governance.

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THE PEOPLE SAID NO

A rebuttal to OpenAI’s proposal for new public policy in the AI era.

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CIOs, Congratulations. You Already Own AI.

You just forgot to tell anyone. Including yourself.

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THE LAUNDERED CEILING

How innocent data is undoing decades of civil rights progress.

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Three Candidates

Two worlds. One job. Very different odds.

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Is Your Data Lake Like the Salton Sea?

LLMs are the translation layer that digital transformation always promised and never delivered.

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When Excitement Becomes Resentment

Technology, displacement, and the civic obligation to do better this time.

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AI Governance & Accountability

Agentic AI in GRC: You’re Not Upgrading Software. You’re Altering Governance Physics.

Market Insight Report

Governance That Keeps Up

Why most enterprise AI governance is theater and how to build the real thing.

The Human in the Loop

Why the most repeated promise in enterprise AI is also the most broken.

Don’t Give It the Keys!

AI Risk Playbook

AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (AI ITGRC) Policy

How to take governance guidance and make it policy.

AI Governance is ITGRC…almost.

AI governance is IT governance.

AI Governance: Ethics Workflow Detail

During the risk assessment process.

Everyone Should Start Their AI Journey with Regulatory Change Management

An AI-powered system that never sleeps, covering every regulation 24/7.

AI Explainability Standard Template

Part of the AI Template Toolkit.

Introducing the IT AI Maturity Model

Get ready for AI.

From Rules to Reasoning

Introducing the AI-Enabled GRC Platform.

Principle or Precedent: The Governance Inflection Point Facing Anthropic

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Enterprise Risk Management

Dancing With the Gray Rhino

Why obvious risks still destroy organizations.

The Cult of One

Enterprise risk management.

The Bias Stack Behind Billionaire Admiration

And how it shows up inside your organization.

Change Management: From Red Tape to Green Light

Using risk and data management for accelerated change management.

Supplier Risk in 2026: Tariffs, Fragmentation, and the Software-Accelerated Supply Chain

How software is reshaping supply chain vulnerability.

Digital Twins in Risk Management

Building the intelligent mirror of the enterprise.

Dynamic Organizational Dimension Modelling

Because “winging it” doesn’t scale.

Transferring the Risk of Political Impacts

Regime changes, civil unrest, and expropriation as financial threats.

Risk Management and Data Management Make I.T. Easier

Executive summary.

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Brand & Reputational Risk

Hey Brands, You Trained Us to Care. Now What?

Brand risk management.

Enterprise Risk: The Evolution of Apple’s Brand Promise

From anti-establishment rebel to institutional power broker.

From Brand Signals to Risk Signals

Reframing reputation intelligence.

Consumer Perception of Ethical Failures

And its effect on brand loyalty.

Navigating Reputational Risk: Challenges for Non-Profits

In a complex funding and impact landscape.

Using the Reputational Risk Maturity Model

A comprehensive framework for non-profits.

Brief: How Millennials and Gen Z Are Reshaping Philanthropy

They are more generous with charity than anyone else.

Introduction to Reputational Risk Management for Non-Profits

Renee Murphy & Co. Brief.

Introducing the Reputational Risk Framework

Manage your brand risk like a risk pro.

Introducing the Reputational Risk Maturity Model

Create a roadmap to better brand risk management.

Applying PESTLE Analysis for Reputational Risk Management

White paper: reputational risk.

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AI Market Intelligence

GRC Platform Market Intelligence Report

AI maturity in the governance, risk and compliance platform market.

The Great GRC Reboot: How AI Is Turning Control Into Intelligence

A prediction report.

Bridging the Gap: Why AI Deployment Outpaces Enterprise Adoption

How to lead the next wave of transformation.

It’s Both. AI Is a Bubble and the Future of Infrastructure.

The AI Risk Playbook for Enterprise Leaders.

Don’t Bet on the Bubble. Bet on the Transition.

The AI Risk Playbook.

The AI Vendor Reckoning

How to evaluate, contract, and survive the AI vendor consolidation already underway.

Davos, Jamie Dimon, and the AI Legitimacy Risk

Systemic risk management.

The AI Risk Playbook for Enterprise Leaders

Introduction, master diagnostic, and sequencing guide.

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Data & Information Strategy

Stop Worshiping Databases

Why modern risk, compliance, and strategy demand information thinking.

Why Information Stewardship Determines Whether AI Can Be Trusted

Not databases. Stewardship.

You Don’t Know What You Have

The data foundation problem hiding under your AI strategy for decades.

Security Logs Aren’t Just Logs. They’re Risk Intel.

A structured, data-driven approach to managing risk.

Less Chart, More Heart

Rethinking how we see data.

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Policy & Society

Deepfakes Unmasked: Building Resilience in the Synthetic Media Era

Synthetic media has evolved from internet curiosity to material operational risk.

CIOs, Congratulations. You Already Own AI.

You just forgot to tell anyone. Including yourself.

When Excitement Becomes Resentment

Technology, displacement, and the civic obligation to do better this time.

THE PEOPLE SAID NO

A rebuttal to OpenAI’s proposal for new public policy in the AI era.

What Machiavelli Knew in 1513 That the AI Industry Still Hasn’t Figured Out

How AI built a threatening brand and needs someone else to sail it home.

THE LAUNDERED CEILING

How innocent data is undoing decades of civil rights progress.

Three Candidates

Two worlds. One job. Very different odds.

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