Risk Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will cover risk management’s best practices, including how to plan strategically to improve operational and financial performances and how to manage different types of risks. In fact, risk could be known, emerging or unknown, and each of those types requires a different decision-making process. This course will analyse how to oversight risks that are not worthy to take and how to seize growth opportunities for your business.

COURSE SUMMARY:
The course takes account of the lessons learned from the global Financial Crisis, especially with regards to leading change and to the best practices now followed by the majority of governance, risk management and compliance organisations.

The content has been reviewed and approved by a large and diverse network of highly experienced third-party risk management professionals, board members, executives, Big-4 partners, attorneys, regulators, international finance experts, subject matter experts, industry experts, and academic thought leaders. The course can be tailored to align with the specific needs, interests, level of detail, and capabilities of the organization, audience and/or industry.

Some core concepts that attendees will analyse are as follow:
- Optimize business performance
- Improve enterprise-wide resiliency
- Maximize corporate growth
- Provide directors with meaningful risk management oversight
- Link key stakeholder expectations, objectives and strategies to major risks
- Establish risk appetite statements
- Set and cascade tone at the top
- Improve decision making at all levels of the enterprise
- Initiate culture transformation
- Align risk taking and compensation
- Develop sustainable risk and compliance measurements
- Manage known and emerging risks
- Conduct ERM tabletop exercises

Governance, Risk and Compliance: Interdependent Framework, Governance, Risk Management, Compliance
Enterprise Risk Management: Definitions, Benefits, Standards, Maturity Model, Ratings, Risks, Gaps, Overlaps and Silos, Information Filtration, Vision

Roles & Responsibilities: Organization Structure, Board of Directors, Executives, Managers, Employees, Supply Chain Vendors

Performance and Resiliency Optimization: Goals, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Enterprise-Wide, Resiliency, Performance
Strategy and Risk Integration: Goals, Approach, Key Stakeholder Expectations, Enterprise Objectives, Strategies, Major Risks, Risk Owners, Controls, Culture

Risk Appetite: Corporate Risk Appetite Statement, Business Unit Risk Appetite, Statements, Aggregate Risk

Managing Risks: Oversight, Avoidance, Reduction, Transfer, Acceptance, Optimization

Business Processes: Key Performance Indicators, Key Risk Indicators, Value Contribution

Sustainable Measurements: Quantitative, Qualitative, Hands-on Experience, Good Business Judgment

Reports and Dashboards: Information Quality, Board of Directors, Executives, Managers, Employees, Supply Chain Vendors, Decision Support

A practical course on today’s most challenging risk management issues

TARGET AUDIENCE: Performance-optimizing executives, key decision makers, risk owners, managers and risk management professionals that want to improve their risk management skills.

Course reviews:

“A life changing course: it has really improved my skills in regards to risk management and leading change”
Monika De Sanctis
Associate, Spade and Archer

“I wish I had taken this course before: my performance in the past 5 years would have been significantly better”
Leo Fortunato
Business Analyst, Data Systems

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