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May 2015

Tomorrow's Risk Leadership: Delivering risk resilience and business performance

The transformation of the risk function requires a strong executive voice of risk to help drive the success of the business. This guide explores the case for the appointment of a senior risk leader to support the board and to manage today’s and tomorrow’s risk agenda.

Leading this agenda well is fundamental to building the resilience that companies need to achieve business success in the short, medium and long term.

This publication is the fourth in a series of guides and toolkits from the Tomorrow’s Good Governance Forum for use by chairmen, boards and advisors, to help achieve practical change. 

It draws on the previous research undertaken and also the experience of those who are actively leading an evolution of the risk function in their organisations. As part of the research 58 CEOs, CFOs, chief risk officers and others have been consulted.

The Tomorrow’s Risk Leadership toolkit helps boards think more deeply about establishing a dedicated risk leadership role.

The toolkit consists of two elements:

  • A roadmap to risk leadership – helping boards make an assessment of how mature the organisation’s approach is to risk and the need for a dedicated risk leadership role
  • An agenda for boards – key questions boards can ask of themselves to help them identify the need to enhance their risk leadership.

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Tomorrow's Risk Leadership

The risk landscape is constantly evolving and becoming more complex. Being able to identify and ‘manage’ all the risks to an organisation is no longer possible.

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