New release — Manhattan, N.Y. — August 2026
The
CompliantEnterprise
A practical guide to ethics, compliance, fiduciary governance, and risk management — written for the people who have to make governance work on an ordinary Tuesday, not just in the policy binder.
A Practical Guide to Ethics, Compliance, Fiduciary Governance & Risk Management
The premise
Compliance should be viewed as an investment in organizational resilience.
Alejandro Hernandez III, J.D.
Governance is a strategy, not a filing.
Regulatory expectations keep rising. So does stakeholder scrutiny, and the speed at which a technology decision becomes a governance problem. Most organizations respond by adding another policy nobody reads.
This book takes the opposite approach. It treats ethics, compliance, fiduciary duty, and enterprise risk as one connected system, and shows how to build that system into how decisions actually get made — who approves what, what gets documented, and what happens when someone raises a concern.
The organizations that hold onto trust are the ones that built it into the culture before they needed it.
Inside the book
The register
Ten areas of practice, each with the structures, controls, and decision points that make it hold up under review.
Who it’s for
Written for the people holding the duty.
Not for the compliance department alone. The book is built for anyone whose signature carries responsibility for someone else’s money, data, or trust — including organizations without a dedicated compliance function.
The author
Alejandro Hernandez III, J.D.
Fiduciary advisor, governance consultant, and founder of ARH Global Advisors LLC. His practice covers ethics and compliance, fiduciary governance, enterprise risk, wealth strategy, real estate advisory, and private client consulting.
He draws on more than two decades across law, business advisory, and fiduciary strategy — work that consistently comes back to the same question: how does an organization make integrity operational, so it holds when the pressure arrives?
- Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
- American Bar Association
- CCIM Institute
- National Association of REALTORS®
- NAIFA
- LIMRA Anti-Money Laundering program
Also by the author
by
Design
Fiduciary by Design
The companion volume, on how fiduciary principles shape wealth management, real estate, business strategy, and long-term stewardship. Read either first — together they cover duty from the individual advisor to the enterprise.
Available now
Build it before you need it.
The Compliant Enterprise is available now. For bulk orders, board education, speaking, or advisory engagements, get in touch directly.