The world is rapidly changing. The European Union is stepping up rules and enforcement, while the United Kingdom is charting its own course. And now the United States is taking a third tack, with unclear regulation enforcement under a mercurial Donald Trump’s second term as president underway.

This year’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey offers an insightful view into this change. We at Compliance Week began our sixth annual benchmarking survey shortly after Trump won the 2024 election in November, collecting responses from 227 people as Trump’s administration was forming, but closing our poll before he was inaugurated in January.

Ian Sherr, Compliance Week’s Editor-in-Chief, is a widely published journalist who has covered business, politics, and policy for outlets including CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and CNET.