Bryan’s Blog

The Benefits of Leading Alongside

No matter your position or the organisational function you operate in, there are massive benefits in learning to lead alongside. I wrote about the concept in my blog last week with risk advisers as the primary audience. I’ll continue with their role to demonstrate the benefits for all advisers.  Leading Alongside  Like other functional areas, risk advisers

Shifting to Risk Leadership 2020s style

In the last couple of months I have been blogging about the failings of the risk function, what Risk Leadership should look like in the next decade and the fundamental flaw organisations make in implementing the Three Lines of Defence risk management model. While throwing stones is easy, it is not so helpful to risk professionals for which the Three

The problem with “Challenge” and “Oversight”

The last couple of weeks I have been pointing out some of the failings of the Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) Model of Risk Management. The red tape it creates and the outsourcing of responsibility for managing risk. However, there is something even worse about the 3LoD model. It has a fundamental flaw that risk and compliance functions

3LoD Resulted in Outsourcing Responsibility for Risk

Last week I pointed out that one of the failings of the Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) risk management model was that it created a whole lot of red tape as regulators looked for evidence of each line delivering on its promises. Another problem is that the implementation of the 3LoD model in many organisations has

3LoD Creates Red Tape

The last few weeks I have been blogging about Risk Leadership. I have covered why risk management has failed in many organisations, what the risk function should look like in the next decade and the leadership required from the risk function in the next decade.  While on the surface the Three Lines of Defence Model (3LoD) model seems like