Risk & Resilience Management by Design Workshop, CHICAGO

The complexity of today’s business environment demands that organizations approach risk and resilience with a strategic, integrated mindset. Maintaining alignment between business strategy, operations, and risk processes is a constant challenge with rapid changes in technology, globalization, regulations, and competitive forces. Effective risk and resilience management requires 360° awareness of the organization’s objectives, risks, and impacts, enabling a holistic view that goes beyond traditional compliance checkboxes. Organizations must see the intricate connections between objectives, risks, and controls and have systems in place to adapt and respond in real time.

However, many organizations still treat risk management as a reactive compliance exercise rather than an essential driver of business success. The failure to embed risk and resilience in organizational strategy and decision-making can lead to catastrophic outcomes – even for the most established brands. The future demands that risk and resilience be viewed as interconnected disciplines harmonized with performance objectives and continuity strategies. This workshop provides a blueprint for building a comprehensive, proactive risk and resilience management program that strengthens organizational adaptability and enhances decision-making.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights and methods to address:

1. Strategic Risk & Resilience Management: Understand how to integrate risk and resilience with business performance, agility, and accountability.
2. Holistic Risk Awareness: Gain insight into the common challenges and pitfalls in managing risk and resilience.
3. Lifecycle of Risk & Resilience Management: Develop and sustain a risk and resilience management lifecycle that evolves with the organization.
4. Clear Ownership & Accountability: Define roles and establish accountability to maintain process consistency across departments.
5. Communication & Engagement: Learn strategies for engaging employees and stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue about risk and resilience.
6. Integrated Monitoring & Metrics: Track and measure risk and resilience effectiveness, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
7. Governance & Assurance: Implement effective governance structures to provide oversight to boards, regulators, and stakeholders.

Abstract

The complexity of today’s business environment demands that organizations approach risk and resilience with a strategic, integrated mindset. Maintaining alignment between business strategy, operations, and risk processes is a constant challenge with rapid changes in technology, globalization, regulations, and competitive forces. Effective risk and resilience management requires 360° awareness of the organization’s objectives, risks, and impacts, enabling a holistic view that goes beyond traditional compliance checkboxes. Organizations must see the intricate connections between objectives, risks, and controls and have systems in place to adapt and respond in real time.

However, many organizations still treat risk management as a reactive compliance exercise rather than an essential driver of business success. The failure to embed risk and resilience in organizational strategy and decision-making can lead to catastrophic outcomes – even for the most established brands. The future demands that risk and resilience be viewed as interconnected disciplines harmonized with performance objectives and continuity strategies. This workshop provides a blueprint for building a comprehensive, proactive risk and resilience management program that strengthens organizational adaptability and enhances decision-making.

Participants will:

• Understand how to integrate risk and resilience with business performance, agility, and accountability.
• Gain insight into the common challenges and pitfalls in managing risk and resilience.
• Develop and sustain a risk and resilience management lifecycle that evolves with the organization.
• Define roles and establish accountability to maintain process consistency across departments.
• Learn strategies for engaging employees and stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue about risk and resilience.
• Track and measure risk and resilience effectiveness, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Implement effective governance structures to provide oversight to boards, regulators, and stakeholders.

GRC 20/20 Instructor

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) – with specific expertise on enterprise GRC strategy and processes supported by robust information and technology architectures.  With 30+ years of experience, Michael helps organizations improve GRC strategy and processes supported by the correct GRC technology architecture. This enables organizations to align GRC with the business and deliver effective, efficient, resilient, and agile capabilities to the organization.  He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor and is noted as the “Father of GRC” — the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester.

Workshop Host

LogicGate offers modern risk management technology empowering businesses to proactively transform risk enterprise-wide. Because risk is a team sport, we created the Risk Cloud Platform® — the most nimble and collaborative GRC solution out there. Rapidly adapt to changing business conditions. Confidently innovate and build new processes as you go. Collaborate on risk across your entire organization. Risk Cloud® gives you an interconnected view of risk across the organization that you just can’t get from point solutions. After all, great companies are built not by avoiding risks — but by choosing the right ones.