INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE CONSULTANCY
Complexity is inevitable. Confusion isn’t.
VERITAS brings clarity to governance, risk and compliance — helping organisations understand what matters, make better decisions and build frameworks that work beyond the page.
Clarity where it counts.
Governance that works beyond the page.
VERITAS is interested in whether something works, not merely whether it exists.
Technical rigour. Commercial reality.
Clarity applied to complex problems
Specialist advice for organisations navigating regulation, growth, complexity and change.
ADVISORY
Specialist advisory support covering risk and compliance frameworks, regulatory readiness, gap analysis, remediation, board and senior-management advice, policy review and governance during organisational growth or change.
GOVERNANCE
Governance frameworks, board effectiveness, decision-making structures, accountability, risk ownership, policies, controls, culture, conduct, escalation and oversight. Emphasise the difference between governance on paper and governance in practice.
FINANCIAL CRIME
AML/CFT, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, complex ownership structures, sanctions, proliferation financing, higher-risk customers, financial crime risk assessments, remediation and digital assets.
AI GOVERNANCE
Accountability for organisational and employee use of AI, AI risk assessment, board oversight, decision documentation, third-party risk, privacy, regulatory and reputational considerations, policies and controls. Make clear that this is governance and risk advice, not AI engineering.
OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE
Business continuity, critical processes and dependencies, operational risk, third-party risk, incident response, escalation and maintaining clear governance under pressure.
TRAINING & SPEAKING
Technically rigorous, practical and current training, workshops and speaking engagements for boards, specialist professional audiences and international cohorts.
You do not need to arrive with a perfectly defined scope.
Mitzi Danielson-Kaslik
Founder & Chief Consultant
Mitzi Danielson-Kaslik is a governance, risk and compliance consultant whose work spans governance, financial crime, regulatory compliance, operational resilience and emerging areas of risk, including AI governance. Her professional background includes financial services and the trust and corporate services sector, including compliance and AML leadership roles. Her work increasingly sits at the intersection of regulation, governance, organisational behaviour and commercial decision-making.
ICA Outstanding Achievement Award in Anti-Money Laundering, 2025
ICA Advanced Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering
ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance
MICA, CG and BA (Hons)
Chair, Institute of Directors Isle of Man Emerging Leaders
International speaker and published author
Thought-leadership contributor and interviewee, including Lexology PRO
Shortlisted for Women in Yachting
Technical rigour. Practical. Current.
VERITAS delivers technically rigorous, practical and current training for boards, senior management and specialist professional audiences. Sessions can be adapted to the regulatory and commercial context of the audience.
- AML for digital assets
Governance, risk and compliance
Geopolitical risk
Proliferation financing
Financial crime
Beneficial ownership
Regulatory developments
International speaking
Mitzi Danielson-Kaslik is an international speaker covering governance and leadership, financial crime, sanctions and proliferation financing, geopolitical risk, AI governance, operational resilience, reputational risk, digital assets, organisational culture and the future of compliance.
VERITAS brings practical experience across governance framework development, regulatory remediation, cross-border data governance, enhanced due diligence, financial crime and emerging regulatory environments. The examples below are anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
Specialist advisory support covering risk and compliance frameworks, regulatory readiness, gap analysis, remediation, board and senior-management advice, policy review and governance during organisational growth or change.
Governance framework development during organisational growth and investment preparation
Regulatory and compliance remediation
Regulatory inspection, licensing and remediation work
Cross-border data governance and US CLOUD Act considerations
Governance, risk and compliance within the changing UK football regulatory environment
Enhanced due diligence involving complex international and private-client relationships
Digital-asset risk governance and AML training
Financial crime, sanctions and proliferation-financing work
Financial services · Private wealth · Trust and corporate services · Professional services · Fintech and digital assets · Technology and AI-enabled businesses · Sport and football · International and high-net-worth markets · Regulated and growing businesses
Beyond the regulatory manual.
VERITAS examines why organisations and people behave as they do, then connects that behaviour to governance, regulation and risk.
SMALLER SYSTEMS MAKE
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
IMPOSSIBLE TO HIDE.
Complexity doesn’t need to become confusion.
If something about your governance, risk or compliance framework is not working — or you need to prepare for what comes next — start a conversation.