Gartner Survey Shows Legal & Compliance Leaders Want to Increase Their Impact on Company Strategy

The Gartner survey of 179 legal, compliance and privacy leaders in September of 2023 showed that developing guidance that enables the business to better balance risk and business benefit, designing or updating compliance training to make it more tailored to employee needs round out their top five priorities (see Figure 1).

“Legal and compliance leaders have neither resources, expertise, nor visibility into the business to manage the impacts of geopolitical tensions, or new technologies such as generative AI, alone. They must prompt others in the business to do more to own these risks,” said Stuart Strome, Director, Research in the Gartner Legal, Risk and Compliance Practice. “General counsels and chief compliance officers already needed to be lawyers, risk managers and strategies, but now they also must be influencers, diplomats and sales representatives as well.”