Will you fold under the pressure of temptation? - Tom ‘Tipper X’ Hardin | EP44

Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a financial analyst in the U.S. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry.<br /><br />Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20 of the 80+ individual criminal cases in “Operation Perfect Hedge,” a Wall Street house cleaning campaign that morphed into the largest insider trading investigation of a generation. As the youngest professional implicated in the sting, Tom was tasked with wearing a covert body wire on over 40 occasions to help the FBI bring down some of its biggest targets in the industry.<br /><br />In a reunion of sorts, Tom was invited by the FBI-NYC’s office to speak to their rookie agents in 2016 and is now a global keynote speaker, corporate trainer and board advisor on behavioral ethics, compliance and organizational conduct and culture risk. Through rigorous self-examination, Tom took responsibility for his actions as a young professional, used the experience to transform his life and is now on an on-going journey into human behavior and why we sometimes make the wrong decision.<br /><br />Tom holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Tom’s riveting life story is the subject of his forthcoming book, The Inside Story of Tipper X.<br /><br /><br />Notable moments in this episode: <br />🛑 14:43 - avoid doing this if you’re managing a team. <br />❗ 17:00 - the moment Tom initially got caught by the FBI.<br />📻 27:35 - what it was really like being an informant secretly working for the FBI.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Follow Tom’s Journey: <br />Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/iamtipperx" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/iamtipperx</a><br />LinkedIn - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hardin-0952324/" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hardin-0952324/</a>