Welcome to Innovate Compliance
Disruptive thinking in compliance and ethics
At Innovate Compliance, we believe that compliance is a philosophy, not a framework.
We bring together innovative, pragmatic and curious minds to reimagine the doctrine of compliance and solve tomorrow's regulatory challenges.
We help our clients embed sustainable compliance and corporate governance principles into their DNA, giving them the ideas and tools to tell compelling, integrated and respected compliance stories.
New for May 2026
How to be a Chief Compliance Officer, co-authored by Innovate Compliance founder Natalie McManus-Barnett and the creator of the C-Suite Framework, Jennifer Geary, is a must read for new and aspiring compliance leaders.
Introducing the IMPACT Wheel and its five enabling Pillars, How to be a Chief Compliance Officer offers a practical blueprint for designing, executing and transforming compliance programmes that support the organisation’s purpose, as well as helping leaders elevate compliance mission, strategy, framework and culture.
Available to buy from Amazon on 1 May 2026.
Three services, one mission
IC Insights
IC Insights cultivates ideas exploring new ways to meaningfully shape compliance philosophy, strategy and practices and promote ethical conduct. Our essays and articles are published in peer reviewed journals as well as on our ICI page.
IC Masterclass
We offer a range of curated and online workshops, tools and templates to elevate the modern compliance leader. Our signature IC cheatsheets, digital playbooks and masterclasses are available through our Learnworlds portal.
IC Risk
Our flagship consultancy arm, our IC RIsk team helps organisations reengineer the way they manage compliance risk, using a blend of economics, accounting and legal principles to create bespoke data-augmented compliance solutions.
Our origins
Natalie McManus-Barnett founded Innovate Compliance to promote creativity, ingenuity and innovation in compliance practices. She collaborates with a team of risk professionals to promote non-financial risk insights and offer new ways of addressing compliance and ethics challenges.
Unsatisfied with the compliance status quo she witnessed in two decades of working in financial services, Natalie started crafting her own brand of compliance risk management built on curiosity, polite disruption, and respect for business values. Blending legal, psychological and economic principles and observed innovative practices from senior professionals in her field, Natalie's vision for compliance is one of sustainability, integration and innovation which complements, rather than competes with, corporate governance and ethics.
Natalie believes formalising the science behind compliance is essential in order to meet the challenges of an AI-enhanced world, and to manage increasingly complex regulatory expectations.
Natalie is a published author, a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a fellow of the International Compliance Association, with specialist qualifications in sustainability accounting, and degrees in law, accounting and politics, philosophy and economics. She has delivered multiple risk management frameworks for global institutions, building ground-up practices for emerging risk management, monitoring and assurance, risk assessment, complaints handling, breach reporting, management information and risk appetite frameworks, as well as building a specialist advisory portfolio covering non-financial risk management, sustainable finance and impact investing, modern slavery and climate risk, investment research, financial promotions, investor protection, accountability, client assets, conflicts of interest, inside information and trade sanctions.