July 9, 2024
During my time as CEO of The IIA, I was often asked by those within the internal audit profession, “What keeps you up at night?” My […]
June 25, 2024
Seven years ago, I tackled the subject of internal auditors as “trusted advisors” in my second book, Trusted Advisors: Key Attributes of Outstanding Internal Auditors. In […]
June 10, 2024
Those who follow me know that I have long been an outspoken defender of internal auditors and chief audit executives who are victims of retaliation, or […]
June 4, 2024
It was bound to happen. After all, technology that seems too good to be true, often is. Perhaps no technology in our lifetime has offered more […]
May 29, 2024
I was recently gathered with a group of colleagues at a networking event in London when one of them gently chastised me for unabashedly urging the […]
May 19, 2024
Retaliation against internal auditors is not common, but it does happen. I have witnessed or been privy to countless instances in which internal auditors, who were […]
May 6, 2024
Occasionally, important research or insightful thought leadership on internal audit falls under the radar. That may have been the case in March, when Deloitte’s Center for […]
May 3, 2024
Once again, it’s Internal Audit Month. Organizers at The IIA dropped “awareness” from the title, and it’s about time. How long were we going to focus […]
April 29, 2024
This week, I published the second edition of my book Agents of Change with a slightly different title: Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in the Era […]
April 22, 2024
I once had the unenviable task of informing a 2-star American Army general that my internal audit team had discovered a potential procurement law violation. That […]