AI Governance: Leadership Accountability and Minimum Viable Guardrails

AI Governance & Regulation: Why Accountability Starts With Leadership (with Siyanbola “Nayis” Feyisetan) Host Paul Bibby speaks with applied AI and digital transformation leader Siyanbola “Nayis” Feyisetan about why AI governance is a leadership responsibility and accountability for AI decisions cannot be outsourced to technology. They discuss how AI is becoming embedded across hiring, finance, healthcare and operations, creating legal, financial and reputational risk if controls are missing. Nayis outlines the evolving regulatory landscape across jurisdictions, highlighting the EU AI Act’s risk-based tiers, and explains that global organisations must comply with laws where they operate. She describes what good governance looks like in practice: integrated policies for data and model use, risk classification, human oversight and escalation, documentation, approvals, audit trails, and monitoring. The episode closes with a “minimum viable” governance framework and Nayis’s reflection that she would start with governance, ethics, and business value to drive measurable ROI. Downloads Minimum Viable AI Governance Checklist - https://forms.office.com/e/4cVw3LvQB8 FREE AI Readiness Assessment - https://forms.office.com/e/3dwbqqdJFj Chapters 00:00 Accountability Starts Here 01:24 Meet Nayis Feyisetan 02:30 Leadership Owns Governance 04:54 Global AI Regulation Tour 08:51 Building Governance Structure 10:45 Policies Guardrails Oversight 13:13 Documentation Audit Trails 14:53 Real World Risk Scenarios 16:58 Bias Data And Feedback 20:23 Minimum Viable Governance 25:32 Signature Question Lessons 28:32 Key Takeaways And Wrap Disclaimer: The opinions and views shared in the Orchestrating AI Podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the views of their employers, organisations, or any affiliated bodies. The discussions in this podcast are for general information only and are not intended as professional, technical, financial, or legal advice. Listeners should always seek appropriate advice before making decisions based on the topics discussed.