Enterprise Risk · Governance · Compliance · Executive Leadership
For more than two decades, Alison Stokes has partnered with executive leadership to help organizations navigate complexity, strengthen governance, manage enterprise risk, modernize compliance, and enable responsible growth.
Her experience spans both the first and second lines of defense, providing a unique perspective that integrates business strategy, enterprise risk, governance, regulatory strategy, operational resilience, and consumer protection into executive decision-making.
Executive Leadership Portfolio
Helping executive leadership make better enterprise decisions.
Executive Impact
Enterprise Leadership Portfolio
Built across the nation's most scrutinized financial institutions. Each domain reflects sustained executive-level engagement, not peripheral exposure.
Career
A career built across the nation's most regulated financial organizations, deepening the capacity to lead, transform, and sustain.
Published Work
Active commentary on the regulatory, governance, and AI-era compliance issues shaping the financial services industry.
The CFPB's recent amendments to Regulation B narrowed disparate-impact enforcement. For institutions accelerating AI adoption, the governance burden may actually become heavier, not lighter.
AI does not remove fair lending risk. It can magnify it, accelerate it, and bury it inside a model where management may not see the problem until someone else does.
California expectations often form before formal rules are finalized. Fee governance, DFPI oversight, digital assets, AI governance, and community investment; where attention is already being paid.
Banks navigating SBA lending today face faster origination expectations, more sophisticated fraud schemes, and heightened documentation standards. The goal is not to slow lending. It is to strengthen it.
Executive Validation
The OCC stated that we did not treat Hispanics differently and met FHA requirements. Our processes are consistent and they did not see variances in our processing. Thank you for all of your efforts and dedication, as well as your amazing partnership.
Your thorough approach, grounded in actual regulatory citations, is a model for how to deal with many such issues. This is the sort of work that elevates the company and allows all parties to focus on real risks rather than creating self-inflicted spirals.
In my 25+ years of working with Compliance professionals, Alison stands above them all. She does not lean on the second-line compliance team to do her job. Instead, she conducts her own analysis of each regulatory question and provides it to second-line when their concurrence is needed. Anyone who hires her will be extremely grateful they did.
Connect
Open to executive leadership opportunities, board advisory conversations, and select strategic engagements where enterprise risk, governance, and compliance leadership matters.