Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

Our guest today is Diligent Corporation's

president and CEO of Lisa Edwards.

Diligent Corporation is the largest governance, risk, and compliance, GRC, SAS provider,

serving over 23,000 organizations around the globe.

Lisa is responsible for commercial growth and performance.

Prior to joining Diligent, she served as EVP of strategic business operations at

Salesforce.

Lisa also held leadership positions at Visa, KnowledgeX,

and co-founded Value Bond.

Prior to the company's acquisition by Knight Capital,

Lisa received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She serves on the board of directors at Colgate-Palmolive Company and is deeply involved in two

non-profits where she previously served on the board Playworks and the Presidio YMCA. So Lisa welcome to the Second Command podcast.

Thanks so much. I'm thrilled to be here.

Yeah, I remember my the very very first business book I ever read was what they don't teach you at Harvard Business School.

And I read it for two reasons.

One I was or three I guess I was kind of a note two.

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