Maria D'Avanzo - Moving into the CCO Chair

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What skills does a CCO need to navigate the compliance waters in any company successfully? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced, and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Maria D'Avanzo, and discuss Maria's journey from a real estate and probate lawyer to compliance, then CCO chair, and now as the Chief Evangelist Officer at Traliant. After 2.5 years at AIG, Maria moved to Cushman & Wakefield, where she became the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Chief Data Privacy Officer. In this role, she led an innovative and commercially focused global compliance and privacy team to support the ethical decision-making and risk management needs of Cushman & Wakefield, a global leader in commercial real estate services with 53,000+ employees worldwide, where she learned that compliance is one of the hardest jobs (if not the hardest) in any company. To be effective, employees need to know who you are, trust and have faith in you, and see your "human side." One of Cushman & Wakefield's CEOs taught me that the best way to accomplish this is to go to where the employees are and listen to them over a cup of coffee. Resources Maria D’Avanzo LinkedIn Profile Traliant.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices