Compliance landscape: Strategic insights for executive leadership
Location :
In person
Audience:
CEO, CFO, CTO, CISO, CIO
Duration :
3 hours
Location :
In person
Audience:
CEO, CFO, CTO, CISO, CIO
Duration :
3 hours
Overview
The regulatory environment facing UK organisations is changing rapidly. New and evolving EU and UK requirements are increasing expectations around executive accountability, operational resilience, supplier oversight, and the quality of assurance provided to boards and regulators. For C-suite leaders, this creates a growing gap between traditional, point-in-time compliance activities and what regulators now expect: continuous, evidence-based confidence in how risk is managed across technology and third parties.
The Compliance landscape is a focused, three-hour executive workshop designed to help senior leaders step back from individual regulations and gain clarity on what is material now, where the organisation is most exposed, and how to prioritise action without adding unnecessary cost or drag. Delivered by esynergy, the session provides practical insight, surfaces real executive concerns, and equips leadership teams with a shared view of risk, assurance, and next steps at a point when regulatory expectations are accelerating and the cost of inaction is rising.
Your session is led by esynergy’s security and compliance specialists, bringing deep expertise in cloud architecture, executive advisory, and strategic technology risk management. With experience advising leadership teams across financial services, healthcare, energy, and regulated industries, our facilitators combine technical credibility with practical business acumen to help organisations navigate complex sovereignty decisions.
Grant Ongers
Head of Security Practice at esynergy and former Global Chair of OWASP
Grant brings over 30 years of InfoSec experience across Dev, Ops, and Sec. He advises FTSE100 companies, start-ups, and government agencies on security strategy, risk, and compliance.
Agenda
15min - Executive context and framing
Set relevance, establish credibility, align expectations
● Welcome and objectives
● Why compliance is changing now
● Compliance-as-reporting vs compliance-as-operational capability
30min - The current regulatory landscape (executive view)
Create a shared mental model without overwhelming detail.
● UK & EU regulatory themes (e.g. resilience, accountability, evidence)
● Cross-cutting obligations affecting technology leaders
● Where regulations overlap vs where organisations duplicate effort
30min - From point compliance to continuous assurance
Reframe compliance as a leadership and operating-model issue.
● Why annual audits no longer satisfy boards or regulators
● Evidence-based assurance vs narrative compliance
● Mapping controls once, reusing evidence many times
30min - Leadership roundtable
What keeps you awake? Facilitated discussion across:
● Personal accountability and regulatory liability
● Board confidence in reporting
● Supplier and third-party risk
● Speed of delivery vs control drag
● AI, automation, and “unknown unknowns”
30min - What “Good” looks like
Looking at a credible end-state without prescribing tools.
● Characteristics of mature compliance organisations
● Operating models that scale without linear cost
● What boards actually want to see (and trust)
25min - Practical next steps and prioritisation
Turn insight into action.
● Identify top 3 risks and top 3 opportunities
● What can be fixed in 90 days vs 12 months
● Where external support accelerates outcomes
10min - Wrap-up and next steps
Key takeaways, materials distribution, follow-up options
Total: approximately 3 hours with flexibility for discussion depth
Takeaways