As compliance and risk professionals, we are accustomed to challenge. It’s the nature of our role and becomes part of our DNA to detect tough situations; some might even say we thrive on it.

This pandemic, however, has challenged the most resilient among us. As one colleague put it to me recently—we are, for the first time, having to constantly live in the present. We can’t truly plan for the future. A great deal, perhaps most, of our business dealings and personal lives have been canceled, and all prospective commitments feel like a big question mark on the calendar.