{"id":10307,"date":"2026-04-15T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/compliance-into-the-weeds-surveying-retaliation-against-compliance-officers-thomas-fox-compliance-evangelist\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:19:19","slug":"compliance-into-the-weeds-surveying-retaliation-against-compliance-officers-thomas-fox-compliance-evangelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/compliance-into-the-weeds-surveying-retaliation-against-compliance-officers-thomas-fox-compliance-evangelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Compliance into the Weeds: Surveying Retaliation Against Compliance Officers | Thomas Fox &#8211; Compliance Evangelist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The award-winning Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to explore it more fully. Looking for some hard-hitting insights on compliance? Look no further than Compliance into the Weeds! In this episode of Compliance into the Weeds, Tom Fox and Matt Kelly discuss a new anonymous Radical Compliance survey, launched with Case IQ and Compliance Week, to quantify retaliation against compliance officers who raise compliance concerns to<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumShowLink()\">  See\u00a0more\u00a0+<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"vidSummary\">The award-winning Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to explore it more fully. Looking for some hard-hitting insights on compliance? Look no further than Compliance into the Weeds! In this episode of Compliance into the Weeds, Tom Fox and Matt Kelly discuss a new anonymous Radical Compliance survey, launched with Case IQ and Compliance Week, to quantify retaliation against compliance officers who raise compliance concerns to senior management.<\/p>\n<p>The survey asks about the reported misconduct, who retaliated, what forms of retaliation occurred, such as firing, demotion, harassment, budget cuts, blacklisting, and what actions followed. Matt also encourages responses from those who have not experienced retaliation. Tom and Matt have previously discussed anecdotally but have not systematically studied, and plan to publish their findings and host a webinar later in the spring, likely in June. They also discuss potential structural protections informed by data, such as disclosure expectations around CCO departures (e.g., 8-K concepts) and contract\/regulatory-approval models like those in India\u2019s banking sector, and suggest that the findings could inform DOJ views on compliance autonomy and effective compliance programs.<\/p>\n<p>Key highlights:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Survey Launch Explained<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Retaliation Questions<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why This Study Matters<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Defining Prevalence<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Using Findings for Change<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Final Call to Participate<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Matt on Radical Compliance: https:\/\/www.radicalcompliance.com\/2026\/04\/09\/launching-the-cco-retaliation-survey\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Survey on Retaliation Against Compliance Professionals: https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/8754857\/Retaliation-Survey<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumHideLink()\">  See\u00a0less\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to explore it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1049,7360,830,621,619,7734,3303,7733],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-compliance","tag-evangelist","tag-fox","tag-officers","tag-retaliation","tag-surveying","tag-thomas","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}