This weeks guest, Michelle Finneran Dennedy, literally wrote the book on Privacy Engineering ("The Privacy Engineers Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value") Michelle held Chief Privacy Officer roles at Cisco, McAfee/Intel, and Sun Microsystems where she led security and privacy initiatives, before serving as the CEO of Drumwave. “For decades, companies have been missing the means to apply, plan, track, and measure privacy requirements. As the CEO of Privacy Code, Michelle made it possible for organization’s to now prove and measure the volume and quality of privacy engineering with meaningful metrics, reports, and a bill of materials (BOM). Additionally, Michelle is a partner at Privatus where she offers strategic and data consulting.

In this episode we discuss Michelle’s journey with multiple sclerosis and how her lifestyle changes literally saved her cognitive functioning and life, knowing your stakeholders, what privacy actually looks like and how diversity in context impacts our view of it, how to "lead with your chin but not break your heart", and much more.