---
id: "action-integrate-risk-and-compliance"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Lessons for Other Companies"]
tags: ["compliance", "change-management"]
related: ["framework-moodys-guiding-principles"]
action: "Embed legal and compliance teams directly into the AI initiative with a 'yes, and...' mandate."
outcome: "Avoids traditional speedbumps and protracted risk evaluations that slow down adoption."
speakers: ["Rob Fauber"]
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-cl-93-legacy-financial-all-in-genai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/03/how-a-legacy-financial-institution-went-all-in-on-gen-ai"
sourceTitle: "How a Legacy Financial Institution Went All In on Gen AI"
---
# Integrate Risk and Compliance Into the Change Program

## Action — Integrate Risk and Compliance Into the Change Program

**Do:** Bring **legal, compliance, and risk staff directly into the AI change program from the beginning**. Instill a **'yes, and...'** mindset in these departments to prevent them from becoming bottlenecks or trapping efforts in protracted risk evaluations.

**Outcome:** Avoids traditional **speedbumps** and protracted risk evaluations that slow adoption.

### Connections
- Enacts Principle 2 of [[framework-moodys-guiding-principles]] and the rationale in [[quote-barrier-everywhere]].
- Core discipline of the [[concept-continuous-change-process]] and the safety mandate of [[concept-generative-intelligence-group]].


## Related across articles
- [[concept-ethical-stewardship]]
- [[claim-governance-targets-wrong-problem]]