Empathy is an important thing for any chief compliance officer or compliance practitioner to not just to practice, but to master. Recently there were two articles in the New York Times and one from the Wall Street Journal that discussed this character trait and I found them useful to consider for the leadership toolkit of the CCO or compliance profession.

Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in...