Is your job safe? Do you understand how new technological innovations like A.I. and Robotics are going to change your future Financial Crime Fighting career? How can you best prepare yourself for the inevitable changes that are coming?

In this fast-paced episode of The Financial Crimes podcast, I invited four financial crime risk professionals to exchange stories and talk about Team Dynamics for Financial Crime Teams; what bad looks like and what causes it, what good looks like and how to attain it.

Sharing my story and valuable lessons I learned about the value of coaches and mentors in my life and career.

Let’s Get Real is our interview series with leaders in our industry, where we go deep into the real skills needed to achieve real success in our profession and life in general. You will get practical tips, strategies and insights from the best players in our industry into the habits, disciplines and mindsets they practice in achieving real success.

Let’s Get Real is our interview series with leaders in our industry, where we go deep into the real skills needed to achieve real success in our profession and life in general. You will get practical tips, strategies and insights from the best players in our industry into the habits, disciplines and mindsets they practice in achieving real success.

Let’s Get Real is our interview series with leaders in our industry, where we go deep into the real skills needed to achieve real success in our profession and life in general. You will get practical tips, strategies and insights from the best players in our industry into the habits, disciplines and mindsets they practice in achieving real success.

Let’s Get Real is our interview series with leaders in our industry where we go deep into the real skills needed to achieve real success in our profession and life in general. You will get practical tips, strategies and insights from the best players in our industry into the habits, disciplines and mindsets they practice in achieving real success.

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” - Seneca, Roman stoic philosopher

The biggest threat to your quest for higher productivity is DISTRACTIONS.

Distractions whether from technology, self or other people causes us stress due to the resulting loss of concentration and lapses in attentiveness.

In episode 3 of The Financial Crimes podcast we discuss effective ways of dealing with these productivity busters in the context of our work as Financial Crimes Fighters.

As Financial Crimes Fighters we perform important work that helps make the world a better place. But we can't do our work effectively if we are constantly running on empty. If we are burned out, our work suffers and if our work suffers, our mission of fighting financial crimes suffers.

In my 20 plus years as a Financial Crimes Compliance professional, I found that one of the best ways to address this issue is becoming more productive.

In this Episode 2 and subsequent episodes for the first quarter of 2020, I will share proven productivity strategies and tactics that worked for me in my life and career. Disciplines that if you try them, I believe, can have a significant positive impact on your productivity.

Let us start on a lighthearted note with a short segment on “Financial Crime Fighters: what we do, what other people think we do, and what we actually want to do.”

In this inaugural episode, I interviewed Financial Crimes Compliance professionals working in financial services, their friends and family members to capture their voices and perspectives on these questions starting with… “What does a Financial Crime Fighter do?”