In this episode of Surfacing, Andy and Lisa talk to digital policy consultant Kristina Podnar. Kristina explains the difference between policies, standards, and guidelines. Then, she illustrates how a mature approach to policy can help teams design and deliver digital products and services with speed, safety, and quality.

 

Episode Transcript

 

About Kristina Podnar

Kristina Podnar is a digital policy innovator. For over two decades, she has worked with some of the most high-profile companies in the world and has helped them see policies as opportunities to free the organization from uncertainty, risk, and internal chaos. Kristina’s approach brings in marketing, human resources, IT, legal, compliance, security, and procurement to create digital policies and practices that comply with regulation.  More importantly though, they unlock opportunity, strengthen the brand and liberate employees to drive innovation.

Kristina has a BA in international studies and an MBA in international business from the Dominican University of California and is certified as both a Change Management Practitioner (APMG International) and a Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute). Her book, The Power of Digital Policy was published in March 2019.

 

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Kristina Podnar’s Website

The Power of Digital Policy Podcast

 

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