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Powerful Insights
by Protiviti
Protiviti, a global consulting firm, presents Powerful Insights. This podcast features leaders and subject-matter experts from around the world offering insights on key issues facing organizations in our dynamic, challenging and competitive global business climate.
Episodes
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Unleashing Enterprise Value: Key Takeaways from Protiviti’s 2027 Top Risks and Opportunities Survey Report
In this Powerful Insights podcast, Protiviti Managing Directors Matt Moore, Katie Dunlap and Fran Maxwell discuss the key findings and actionable insights from the firm’s 2027 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks and Opportunities Survey Report conducted with North Carolina State. Global business...
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2026 Will Test Every Assumption You’ve Made About TMT Risks – Are You Ready?
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore key findings from Protiviti’s 2026 Top Risks report and discuss how Technology, Media & Telecommunications leaders can strengthen resilience, modernize technology platforms, and govern AI effectively amid rapid industry disruption.…
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Microsoft Agent 365: Governing Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how AI agents are reshaping the enterprise risk landscape and discuss how organizations can leverage Microsoft Agent 365 to strengthen governance, security, and oversight as agent adoption accelerates. Drew Madelung Microsoft MVP,...
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Synchronize: Protiviti’s 2026 Global Finance Trends Report Key Findings with Protiviti’s Chris Wright and Shawn Seasongood
AI adoption in finance is widespread today--three out of four finance groups are employing AI--but only 14% of this group have defined an AI strategy, limiting the ability to scale and generate measurable transformation. That’s one of the key findings in Protiviti’s 2026 Global Finance Trends...
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When AI Goes Beyond Productivity: Real Enterprise Innovation with Microsoft Copilot and AI Agents
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how leading organizations are using Microsoft Copilot and agentic AI to move beyond productivity gains and drive enterprise-wide innovation, growth, and business value. Patrick Anderson Managing Director, Protiviti...
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Where Fraud Meets Compliance: Building a Stronger Line of Defense
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how financial institutions are responding to the convergence of fraud, anti-money laundering, and compliance risks, and discuss strategies for building more integrated and effective risk management programs. Carol Beaumier Senior...
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The AI-People Conundrum: Learning to Lead Not Lag with Protiviti’s Fran Maxwell
AI transformation is actually a workforce transformation challenge. Is HR ready to lead that transformation? That’s one of the key questions we set out to answer in Protiviti’s latest AI Pulse Survey: The AI-People Conundrum: Learning to Lead, Not Lag. In the report, released in late July, we...
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2026 Top Risks & Opportunities for Aerospace & Defense
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore the issues and challenges shaping the aerospace and defense industry, and discuss how organizations can strengthen resilience, manage emerging challenges, and position themselves for growth. David Brand Managing Director, Global...
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Due Diligence Reimagined: How AI Is Reshaping Valuations and Deal Risk
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping business valuations and due diligence, and discuss practical strategies for investors, boards, and deal teams to assess AI maturity, scalability, and disruption risk. Frank Kurre Managing...
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The Board’s AI Moment
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore findings from Protiviti’s Global Board Governance Survey and discuss how boards and executive teams can strengthen AI governance, oversee responsible adoption, and drive greater value from AI investments. Frank Kurre Managing Director,...
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From Pilot to Practice: AI That Works in Internal Audit
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how internal audit teams are moving beyond AI experimentation and embedding repeatable, scalable capabilities to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and oversight. Andrew Struthers-Kennedy Managing Director & Global Leader, Internal…
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The Risk Advantage: Unlocking Manufacturing & Distribution Industry Growth in Uncertain Times
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where explore how manufacturing and distribution leaders are navigating today’s risks and driving growth through intelligent operations, modern technology, and adaptive workforce strategies. David Kupinski Managing Director, Global Manufacturing and...
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The Alignment Advantage in Transformation with Protiviti’s Kim Bozzella and Dave Petrucci
Transformation is no longer solely a technology challenge; it’s an alignment challenge across the C-suite. Protiviti’s global transformation survey, conducted in partnership with the University of Oxford, shows that technology modernization delivers stronger outcomes when executives are aligned —...
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Harnessing The Power of Data and AI within IA
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how data analytics and AI are transforming internal audit and enabling deeper insights, faster risk detection, and more strategic impact. Nick Russell Managing Director, Internal Audit & Financial Advisory...
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Technology Trends Transforming Internal Audit: From Insight to Impact
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how emerging technologies, including AI and advanced audit platforms, are reshaping internal audit and what leaders can do to build a forward-looking technology roadmap. Angelo Poulikakos Managing Director, Internal Audit-Tech Audit &...
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Leveraging Cloud ERP to Scale Your Mid-Market Company
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how mid-market organizations can modernize through ERP transformation and leverage AI, data readiness, and change enablement to support scalable growth. Chris Hanson Managing Director, Business Platform Transformation...
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Rethinking Internal Audit with AI
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how artificial intelligence is transforming internal audit and how organizations can integrate AI to enhance capabilities while keeping human judgment at the core. Andrew Struthers-Kennedy Managing Director and Global Leader, Internal...
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Securing and Governing Data in the Age of AI
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar in which we explore how organizations can strengthen data governance and security to address emerging risks and build resilient data ecosystems in the age of AI. Gagan Arora Director www.linkedin.com/in/gagan-arora-525a5b8/?originalSubdomain=uk Merve...
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New Threats, Same Fight: Cybersecurity’s Next Challenge
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar in which we examine the evolving cyber threat landscape and explore how internal audit teams can strengthen organizational resilience and support effective response strategies. Mathew Holdt Associate Director, Internal Audit & Financial Advisory...
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Bridging the Divide: Enhancing Operational Technology (OT) Security in a Converging IT/OT World
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar in which we explore the evolving cyber threat landscape facing operational technology environments and discuss how organizations can adapt security controls to better protect critical OT systems. Justin Turner, Director, TC-Cybersecurity...
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Data Confidence Bridges the Trust Gap in Enterprise AI
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar, where our experts explore findings from Protiviti’s AI Pulse Survey Vol. 2 and how organizations can build trustworthy data foundations to accelerate AI maturity and ROI. Matt McGivern Managing Director, Enterprise Data & AI Governance Leader...
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The Human Cost of Exponentials Navigating Legacy Tech in Financial Services
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how leaders can harness exponential technologies within legacy environments while preserving trust, resilience, and long-term value. Dan Stummer Managing Director, Head of Technology Consulting Financial Services Lead...
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Navigating AI Regulation Across Europe
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar. Our experts break down the evolving AI regulatory landscape across the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland and discuss what financial services organizations need to know to meet emerging compliance, risk, and governance expectations....
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2026 Top Risks and Opportunities: An Internal Audit Perspective
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar, 2026 Top Risks and Opportunities: An Internal Audit Perspective. In this session, our experts share the latest Top Risks and Opportunities Survey findings and explore what they mean for Chief Audit Executives as they navigate emerging risks, shifting...
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Understanding the Final CMMC Rule and Its Impact
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we break down the final CMMC rule and share practical guidance on navigating new compliance requirements and leveraging Microsoft and Protiviti solutions to prepare for certification. Randy Armknecht, Managing Director & Global Lead, Cloud...
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Strategic CX: Optimizing Your Customer Experience to Drive Business Growth
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore key findings from the Protiviti–Oxford global executive outlook on customer experience and discuss how CX and marketing leaders are using data, AI, and connected experiences to drive growth and strengthen customer loyalty. David Howard...
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Unlock Resilience and Foresight for Tomorrow’s Finance Leaders
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we explore how CFOs and finance leaders are using advanced technologies, modern FP&A strategies, and data-driven decision-making to navigate economic and geopolitical volatility and build more agile, future-ready finance organizations. Chris…
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Unlocking Opportunity – Discussing the Results of the Latest Top Risks and Opportunities Survey from Protiviti and NC State
This episode is a rebroadcast of our webinar where we cover key findings from the 2026 Top Risks survey and share actionable insights to help organizations overcome AI deployment barriers, balance near-term risk management with long-term value creation, and drive sustainable growth. Kim Bozzella...
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Trump’s First 100 Days: Navigating an Uncertain Future
This podcast is the replay of a webinar Protiviti hosted in January. April 30 marked the 100th day of the second Trump administration. Since Inauguration Day, the administration’s actions have reshaped national and international policies, resulting in economic uncertainty, geopolitical risk and...
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Responding to Tariffs: Achieving Financial and Operational Agility in a Volatile Regulatory Environment – with Kerry Buchar and Lucas Mangan
Tariffs are the dominant issue of the day and the focus of our latest edition of Powerful Insights as we discuss how companies can assess and respond to them effectively in their organizations. Without question, tariffs are dominating agendas and discussions in boardrooms, C suites and more as...
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Trump 2.0: Possible Winners and Losers
This podcast is the replay of a webinar Protiviti hosted in January 2025. President Donald Trump took office in January with Republican control of both the Senate and the House and with a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. He has moved quickly to appoint cabinet members, agency heads and others...
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Transform: Assessing CFO perspectives and priorities for the coming year – with Chris Wright and Nick Puetz
A look at the top priorities for CFOs and finance leaders in the coming year — among them, security and privacy of data, financial and strategic planning and analysis, leadership, and enhanced data analytics — reveals a tale of transformation for CFOs whose responsibilities continue to widen....
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Get Ready for Your IPO: Financial Reporting, Cybersecurity, Sustainability and More
In this episode of Powerful Insights, we talk about all things around readiness for an initial public offering, or IPO. And spoiler alert, there is a lot to address: accounting, financial reporting, cybersecurity, and even ESG and climate reporting. Our guests are Stephen Alicanti and Kristy...
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Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk – with Lucas Manganaro
Supply chain management continues to be a hot topic in countless organizations in light of ongoing geopolitical challenges, evolving impacts of climate change, new tariffs, changing labor markets, and much more. How can supply chain and procurement leaders attack these and other challenges? It...
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Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2024 and a Decade Later – with Mark Beasley and Jim DeLoach
Protiviti and NC State University's ERM Initiative have conducted the 12th annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risk Survey, in which we poll board members and C-suite executives from around the world on the risks they see as most significant for their organizations over the next 12 months and…
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Emerging Regulations in Tech: Understanding the Digital Services Act – with Kaitlin Kirkham-Cooper and Roxanne Miller
As of August 25, 2023, large technology companies providing hosting services, online platforms and search engines, are required to put processes in place to be notified of illegal content and to act on notifications under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Tech firms that do not…
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New Global Research: Assessing CFO and Finance Leader Priorities for the Coming Year – with Kerry Buchar and Chris Wright
The volume of CFO priorities has increased for years. In the past 12 months, the intensity of these urgencies also spiked, forcing finance leaders to make higher-stakes decisions more quickly and implement major adjustments with far-reaching implications. Results from the latest Global Finance...
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Technology Audit Risks Survey: Navigating a Technology Risk-Filled Horizon - with Angelo Poulikakos and Lindsay Gleeson
The results from this year's Global Technology Audit Risks Survey, conducted by Protiviti and The Institute of Internal Auditors, reveal a complex and multifaceted landscape of technology risks. Cybersecurity is the top priority and by a wide margin. AI is an emerging risk with gaps in...
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Achieving Digital Maturity in Finance – with Chelsea Black and Kizzy Gift
In this episode, we discuss digital maturity in finance. Or more specifically, how more finance organizations are employing ERP systems, moving to cloud-based systems, transitioning more to analytics, and with that, understanding the talent management and risk management needs that are required...
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The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Cyber and ESG Mandates – with Andrew Struthers-Kennedy and Angelo Poulikakos
In this episode, we dive into SOX compliance – specifically, the findings of and key takeaways from Protiviti’s latest Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey. The results of our research are featured in our just-released report, The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes,...
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Implications of U.S. Banking Regulators’ Final Guidance on TPRM – with Brian Kostek, Kathryn Hardman and Helen Smith
In June, nearly two years after issuing their proposal for third-party risk management (TPRM), the U.S. banking regulators – the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – finalized their…
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The Rise of Generative AI - with Christine Livingston
ChatGPT is the talk of the town today. But as we all know, generative AI is much more than this one tool. Gen AI represents a new frontier of promise, productivity and capabilities for organizations around the world. But it also comes with risks that these organizations must understand and manage...
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Procurement as a Service: Bringing Together Talent and Skills – with Chris Monk and Holly Lindstrom
In the wake of a world-changing pandemic and amid current uncertainties in the global economy, organizations have made, and are making, some significant adjustments in their operations. For most, the procurement function is at or near the top of the list. These changes are critical for…
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Cost Optimization in Manufacturing – with Shawn Seasongood and Andrea Vardaro Thomas
Well, it looks like a recession is coming. Or maybe it's not. Or maybe it is. It seems like it's been a long wait for the other economic shoe to drop. And in the meantime, many questions are arising around managing costs in organizations. CFOs and finance leaders continue to have a lot of...
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Agile Factories: Building Flexibility and Adaptability in Manufacturing – with Robert Giacobbe, Sharon Lindstrom and David Petrucci
As manufacturing organizations assess new ways to innovate and transform their operations, one area they continue to explore is the development of agile factories. In this episode, we talk with Protiviti Managing Directors Sharon Lindstrom, David Petrucci and Robert Giacobbe. Together, they…
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Achieving Audit Relevance – with Andrew Struthers-Kennedy and Angelo Poulikakos
Top-performing internal audit groups share similar traits: They focus more on streamlined, tailored, impactful communications and reporting. They evolve and adapt routinely, and they push themselves to find and build talent and resources from both within and outside their organizations. But guess...
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Select and Implement the Right Tech Tool for Your Finance Group – with Shelly Kalladanthyil and Nick McKeehan
One of the most significant decisions a CFO faces is selecting the right technology or tool to help them run the finance organization and deliver expected results and value for the business. But technology selection is only the first step. There also is implementation, a just as important stage...
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Future of Crypto Innovation and Regulation - with Mike Brauneis, Maryann Kennedy, Liz Mathew and Lata Varghese
Over the past year, as one crypto organization after another has been beset by fraud or declared bankruptcy, countless headlines have surfaced warning of the death of the crypto industry. Yet the damage has been largely contained. The developments have raised many questions about digital assets,...
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Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2023 and 2032 - with Mark Beasley and Jim DeLoach
The level of uncertainty in today’s global marketplace and the velocity of change continue to produce an array of potential risks that can disrupt an organization’s business model and strategic plan on very short notice. The results of the latest Top Risks Survey from NC State University’s ERM...
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IT Audit Perspectives on Today’s Top Technology Risks
The greatest IT audit concerns lie with cybersecurity-related breaches and related risk issues. Data governance and data integrity are being scrutinized. Regulatory compliance burdens and risk are increasing rapidly. These are among the key takeaways from the results of the latest IT Audit...
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Protiviti, a global consulting firm, presents Powerful Insights. This podcast features leaders and subject-matter experts from around the world offering insights on key issues facing organizations in our dynamic, challenging and competitive global business climate.
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