Workshop Types
To equip professionals responsible for Board reporting and Independent Directors with the skills to identify, prioritize, and clearly communicate the organization’s top enterprise risks— framed through the lens of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and supported by the Three Lines of Defence model. The session emphasizes non-technical, board-relevant communication to drive effective oversight and strategic response.
✅ Expected OutcomesBy the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Commercial and corporate legal exposure
- Climate change and environmental impacts
- ESG-related reporting and reputation risks
- Intellectual property, innovation, and digital disruption
- Global regulatory and legislative changes
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and data obligations
- Product/service-specific risks (customized to sector)
- Human capital accounting and workforce continuity
- Leadership succession and long-term governance readiness
- ERM: Structuring enterprise risk data for board visibility
- The Three Lines of Defence: Enhancing confidence, assurance, and clarity
- Templates to present risk in context, not in silos
- Board-focused communication: Framing, filtering, and flagging key risks
- Climate, ESG, and people risks as part of boardroom readiness
- Real-life scenarios and mock presentations
🏛️ Anticipate critical enterprise risks, Assess how to frame them with structure, Adapt your board communication to enable better governance and action.
In an era of digital acceleration and rising regulatory expectations, manual GRC processes fall short of what today’s organizations demand. This workshop offers a practical, tool-based experience that shows how automation and digital tooling can streamline governance, risk, and compliance activities.
Participants will work directly with a live GRC automation tool, gaining firsthand insight into how workflows, dashboards, assessments, and reporting can be transformed with the right technology.
What You’ll Learn:- ✅ The business case for GRC automation – efficiency, transparency, and control
- ✅ Navigating tool selection and implementation readiness
- ✅ Live walkthroughs and guided exercises using a GRC automation tool
- ✅ Automating key activities:
- – Risk assessments and registers
- – Control testing and compliance checklists
- – Issue tracking and audit planning
- ✅ How automation supports ESG tracking, cybersecurity compliance, and real-time decision-making
- ✅ Addressing challenges: Change management, user adoption, and governance alignment
⚙️ Anticipate inefficiencies, Assess real-world tooling value, Adapt with hands-on automation skills
AI isn’t just about automation—it’s about augmented thinking. This workshop empowers professionals in audit, risk, compliance, and governance roles to explore how generative AI tools, including platforms like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and home-grown AI solutions, can enhance critical thinking, reporting, and decision support.
Through structured case studies and real-time exercises, participants will learn how to make AI work for them, not with code, but with clarity, context, and creativity.
✅ What You’ll Learn:- How to use AI tools (both commercial and internal) as trusted assistants
- Fundamentals of effective AI prompting – clear, purposeful, and adaptable
- AI use cases tailored to GRC domains:
- Drafting internal audit checklists
- Generating and refining policy documents
- Creating and prioritizing entries in risk registers
- Automating compliance insights and summaries
- Hands-on case studies drawn from real organizational scenarios
- Using your organization’s AI tools alongside public models for controlled, secure usage
- Ethical and governance considerations: transparency, accountability, and responsible AI adoption
🤖 Anticipate where AI can add value, Assess the right tools for the right tasks, and Adapt your function to lead in the age of intelligent assistance
