Risk Workshops
For Risk Teams
The following five risk workshops provide insights and strategies to help risk teams elevate the risk function from a box-ticking compliance exercise to a valuable leadership tool for helping their organisation grow and succeed.
Review Your Risk Framework
As the foundation of your risk program, getting your framework right is paramount. In this workshop I’ll help you cut through complexity and overcome the ‘this is how we’ve always done it’ mindset to create a clear guide – one that is readily adopted by your leaders and drives the desired behaviours across your organisation for navigating change, seizing opportunities, and driving growth.
Enterprise Risk Management Course
My popular ERM course offers the convenience of online on-demand learning and the benefits of experiential learning. In the first half, you’ll set your own pace to learn more about ERM essentials (principles, framework, and processes for managing organisational risk) and gain a requisite technical understanding of ISO31000 before joining a cohort online for two half days to learn the tips and tricks and ins and outs of designing and implementing an enterprise risk function to drive success for your organisation.
Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation Course
Workshop facilitation is a challenging and, at times, frustrating task, which is why I created a course to give you the strategies and tools to capably and confidently guide groups to have the conversations that lead to good decisions and position you as a trusted and valued adviser.
Persuasive Adviser Program
Struggling to get your advice heard and acted on by the Board or CEO and other decisions makers in your organisation? It’s a common challenge and the reason I created a program to help risk professionals become more persuasive, elevating them to the coveted role of trusted adviser, whose advice is sought before decisions are made.
Risk Adviser Program
An online on-demand version of my Persuasive Adviser Program, my Risk Adviser Program is designed to give you the opportunity to discover and master at your own pace a new approach to influencing your organisation’s decision makers – one that has helped hundreds of risk professionals across Australia achieve greater cut through with their advice.
About My Workshops
My workshops can be delivered in person, either in-house or offsite, and conveniently online. Each workshop is tailored to your needs with a well-proven preparation methodology that ensures the time of senior leaders is better than well spent, it’s invaluable.
To date I’ve run workshops for hundreds of public, private and not-for-profit organisations both large and small across Australia and New Zealand, as well as for clients as far afield as Canada, the country of my birth.
Risky Business
‘A must-read for any budding Risk Professional while an excellent reference for anyone in leadership.’
Tony Dudley, CFO and Head of Business Enablement, Transport Accident Commission
‘Risky Business is an enlightening read offering key risk principals as a great ‘self-check’ for those experienced in risk and for new risk practitioners alike, to ensure we don’t become a handbrake to happiness in our own roles … This book gifts leaders practical ideas, methods and tools to leverage their impact in their unique environments. Thank you Bryan!’
Andrew Booth, Head of Operational Risk, Cotton On Group
‘Risky Business is a distillation of Bryan’s 30 years of diverse experience. Bryan takes the reader through a range of relevant content, theories and thinking. His passion, experiences and examples bring it all to life and together illustrate how we can become trusted advisors and invited to contribute.’
Grant Gillingham, Group Risk Manager, Fisher & Paykel
Testimonials
Bryan invested the time to understand the complex components of our business, the environments that they operate within, and what their key drivers are. His pragmatic style worked well with our leadership team and his structured approach ensured all voices were heard to identify the strategic risks of each business unit.
Bryan has been fantastic for us, he has been very influential. He has challenged our thinking and has worked really well at all levels of our organisation. He has been a breath of fresh air around risk management and changing thinking about risk as a value add and a real cultural function of the organisation. He has really revitalised our discussion around risk at Beyond Blue.
Bryan helped us put in place a rigorous strategic risk framework. To be honest, I was dreading it. I’ve been through this so many times in other contexts with the end result never hitting the mark. But this was different. Bryan’s pre-work with the executive team was thorough. His workshops were engaging. And most of all he held us to maintaining a strategic view of our risks and our risk appetite. He listened, strived to understand our fairly unique context, and played back for us a framework we can genuinely use to manage the department. And in the process, he restored my faith that there are risk consultants capable of creating pragmatic yet effective frameworks. Well, one anyway.
Bryan has been excellent in facilitating a training session with our team on project risk management and benefits realisation. His engaging style and unique ability to connect across the team made the session both valuable and memorable.
Bryan is a professional and strong facilitator who relates well to staff at all levels. As a regular facilitator for Austrade, he teases out critical issues to ensure that the objectives from each session are consistently achieved to a high level.
The CEO and leadership team were very impressed with Bryan’s professional approach and his ability to facilitate a workshop involving people with a wide variety of risk knowledge and resulting in a risk profile that everyone understood and felt that they had contributed to.
Bryan was engaging and provided a number of key resources and tools to assist with building our knowledge as trusted advisors for the Bank.
Bryan demystifies risk concepts and identifies practical ways forward. The result was a realistic risk appetite which enhanced the quality and effectiveness of our strategic decisions.
Thank you for a wonderful course (Enterprise Risk Management) – I definitely found it valuable.
Bryan is an engaging presenter, and the concepts he shared (in his Persuasive Adviser Program) were highly relevant and helpful for the team. Our team overwhelmingly agreed that the program was enjoyable and that the material has helped them become more effective as an ‘Adviser’ to our business.
Bryan clearly has extensive knowledge and experience and this enabled the content of the workshop to be delivered with confidence providing detailed examples to support learning objectives. An excellent training workshop, highly recommended to others.
Very efficient use of time and powerful messages.
Pragmatic, real-world language. Message was about improving decisions, not about technical applications of the risk management standard.
The influencing skills are applicable for influencing your kids all the way to a 2-star general. Valuable information taught at a level easy to understand.
Action-packed day full of great, relatable content that can be applied to any business.