The role of compliance should be to help organizations ensure that outcomes are achieved through proper governance and the management of uncertainty.
It should operate more like a Project Management Office (PMO) does in helping projects succeed instead of as a traffic cop waiting to pull you over at the next audit.
It's time to put compliance at the front of the line where it can show everyone how to ethically contend with regulations. It's time for compliance to say YES we can and here's how rather than no you can't.