You know the law. The organization doesn't know it needs you.
You have the credentials. You understand the risk. And somehow, you’re still finding out about things after they’ve already launched.
A five-part email series about why expertise was never the problem, and what actually has to change.
Five emails. Five days.
This series walks through a pattern I have seen repeat for over a decade, one that costs privacy professionals real influence, real time, and real confidence in their own judgment.
It starts with the work your organization does not see you carrying and ends with something concrete you can start building without a budget or anyone’s permission. In between, I tell you the story of someone who had the credentials, did the analysis, and still kept getting routed around, and what it finally taught me about why being right would never be enough on its own.
There is something specific that has to be true before expertise can translate into actual authority within an organization.
Most privacy professionals do not have it. Most of the advice in this field will not tell you it is missing. And most privacy professionals spend years trying to compensate for its absence without ever being able to name what it is.
This series is where I name it.
I’m Teresa (T) Troester-Falk. I have over 20 years in privacy and data protection compliance, including the years I spent trying to solve an authority problem with better analysis. I wrote So You Got the Privacy Officer Title. Now What? because the gap I kept seeing was never expertise. It was the operational and relational foundation nobody was talking about directly enough.
— T
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