Andy Fastow

Former CFO of Enron; Risk Management, Ethics, and HR Expert

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Andy Fastow

Former CFO of Enron; Risk Management, Ethics, and HR Expert

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Why Book

Real-world ethics and leadership lessons — Andy Fastow offers a rare insider perspective on corporate misconduct, helping organizations understand how ethical breakdowns happen and how to prevent them.
Powerful risk and decision-making insights — His story provides executives and teams with practical frameworks for navigating pressure, incentives, and blind spots that can lead to poor judgment.
Memorable, high-impact keynote experience — Combining transparency, accountability, and storytelling, he delivers thought-provoking talks that spark meaningful conversations around integrity, culture, and responsible leadership.

Biography

Andy Fastow was the Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corp. from 1998 – 2001. In 2004, he pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and was sentenced to six years in federal prison. He completed his sentence in 2011, and now lives with
his family in Houston, Texas. Andy currently consults with management, directors, attorneys, and hedge funds on how to best identify potentially critical finance, accounting, compensation, and cultural issues.

His training sessions focus on risk in the “gray zone”, where decisions that may technically be allowed give rise to risks that are not properly considered. He helps attendees better understand the limited role of auditors and attorneys, how
technically-correct but ethically-challenged decisions may be interpreted by the market, and the steps they can take to become more self-aware and able to identify, price, and manage these risks.

Andy is the only Enron executive that has taken full responsibility for his actions and has both repeatedly and publicly expressed remorse. In addition to serving his prison sentence, Andy forfeited far more money than he ever earned at
Enron. He is credited with being the individual most responsible for helping recover $6 billion for Enron shareholders.

His sessions are also typically awarded 1 1⁄2 hours of CLE and CPE Ethics credits.

Programs

Unbiased: How to Manage Risk in the Gray Zone

We live in the Age of Corporate Disasters. From Enron to Purdue Pharma, J&J, 3M, General Electric, Boeing, and Silicon Valley Bank, to name a few–seemingly great and iconic companies have been harmed or destroyed by self-inflicted wounds. What has changed? Are we worse at compliance? Are we less ethical? Has corporate culture changed so
significantly? The leaders at these organizations did not set out to do harm.

Their challenges arose from an inability to lead their teams through and to the right decisions in what we call the Gray Zone– that place where creative application of complex and ambiguous rules allow us to get to a technically correct answer that may be the wrong solution. The Gray Zone is where leadership is needed most, but where leaders have the least amount of training.

Andy Fastow spent six years in federal prison thinking about his role as CFO at Enron. He is now a sought-after public speaker who consults with Boards of Directors on ways to help leaders better identify, price, and manage these unseen Gray Zone risks in their businesses and in their lives.