So Tom Fox, tell me about your vision.
My vision is twofold.
One is I am a lawyer by professional training and I struggled for many, many years about
how I could use my law degree and be a lawyer really for good.
I think all lawyers go to law school wanting to do that.
Well, I struggled with that for a long time.
Here's what I found.
The United Nations estimates that the world loses $3 trillion annually to bribery and
corruption.
And that what I found was that in the corporate world, there is a way to fight that bribery
and corruption.
Now, there are laws, of course, that prevent it and you could put programs in place to
comply with those laws and that's certainly appropriate.
But I realized that I could be a part of this fight against bribery and corruption doing
business in the corporate world and doing good.
And so I call myself the compliance evangelist because I believe compliance, well, first
of all, evangelist means the bringer of the good news in ancient Greek.
And I believe compliance makes businesses run better.
It makes them run more efficiently.
It makes them run more profitably and it fights this global scourge of bribery and corruption.
So I'm a huge advocate for compliance.
I call myself the compliance evangelist.
I've written 33 books in this arena.
I have an entire podcast network dedicated to it.
But at the end of the day, I'm passionate because I may push the ball forward an inch
and to me that's progress.
And I wake up every day and I'm thrilled to do what I do.
So that's really my primary vision.
My other one comes from a personal experience, which was I took off a year to race bicycles
and I did that, had great fun until one day I got hit by a Hummer that ended my cycling
career and I was laid up for a few months.
And when I finally got enough energy to get on my walker and toddle into my office, realizing
I was going to have to go back to work, this was 2010.
And at that point in my life, I knew nothing about social media.
So I started exploring Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, et cetera.
And what I realized from that experience was I'd always known when the universe closes
one door, it opens another.
But what I didn't realize was you have to have the courage to walk through.
And that's what I had after that accident because as many people who've had life threatening
accidents will tell you, your give a flip attitude really changes.
And you become a little more concerned about things like purpose and vision.
And so I try to communicate to people that, yes, the universe will open a door, but you
have to have the courage to walk through.
And I admit sometimes that takes courage.
I was laid up with no work and no job.
So the courage was a little bit easier.
I had to do something, but that was an incredibly valuable lesson.
And it's a vision I try to articulate to people as well.