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📌 At a recent conference, I put this question to Risk professionals: could your business clearly explain the value Operational Risk function creates? Only 2% said yes, clearly and consistently. For 41%, business colleagues would be more likely to describe Risk’s processes and tools. When the business sees our processes more clearly than our value, risk management can quietly turn into risk administration. The way people experience the Risk function becomes part of the organisation’s Risk Culture. Every tool and every interaction with Risk teaches the organization what risk management is intended to achieve. This thinking sits at the heart of my new practitioner guide, published in collaboration with Decision Focus: Embedding Risk Culture: How Tools, Tone and Traditions Shape Everyday Decisions. The paper introduces my 3T Model: 🔹 Tools - Do our frameworks improve decisions or simply generate activity? 🔹 Tone - What do leaders and the Risk function teach through everyday conversations? 🔹 Traditions - Which repeated behaviors become “how we do things here”? An RCSA can encourage judgement and prioritization - or teach people that risk management is about completing forms. Risk Culture is continually shaped: one tool, one conversation and one repeated behaviour at a time. The guide offers practical reflections, tips and small steps that Risk professionals can apply straight away. Thank you to the wonderful team at Decision Focus Jenny Ritson-Smith Bethany Collieu Sofie Kiib Hecht for supporting its development and publication. 👉 Download the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eG34f2uN Which of the three Ts do you believe is the most difficult to influence: Tools, Tone or Traditions? #RiskCulture #OperationalRisk #RiskManagement #RiskLeadership

Most firms can measure Risk Culture. Far fewer manage to embed it. In our new whitepaper, Elena Pykhova of The Op Risk Company sets out the 3T Model: Tools, Tone and Traditions. Drawing on more than 30 years in financial services, she shows how better risk tools, better risk conversations and consistently reinforced behaviours turn cultural aspirations into everyday decisions. Risk Culture is not implemented. It is continually shaped. Download Embedding Risk Culture

Your risk landscape is getting more complex. Your GRC programme needs to keep up. From third-party risk to AI governance to regulatory compliance. Decision Focus brings everything into one place, so your team always has a clear picture of where you stand. One platform. Full visibility. Total focus.

AI adoption is moving fast. Is your governance keeping up? Join risk expert and owner of The Op Risk company, Elena Pykhova and Decision Focus for our upcoming webinar, Take Control of AI: From Adoption to Governance, where we’ll explore how organisations can embrace AI while putting the right governance, controls and accountability in place. We’ll look at the practical steps organisations can take to move from AI adoption to effective, scalable governance, including where Risk teams can play a key role. Join us on 15 October at 14:00 BST.

Is your organisation ready for what AI, DORA and the AI Act mean for the future of GRC? On 15th September, Focus 26 Nordics brings leaders from across the Nordic financial sector together at Nimb Hotel in Copenhagen to explore exactly that. AI is reshaping how risks emerge, how attacks are designed and how regulators expect organisations to respond. At Focus 26 Nordics, external industry experts and peers will discuss what these changes mean in practice, and how GRC leaders can prepare for what comes next. We’re now close to full capacity, with only a few places remaining. If these are challenges you’re navigating in your organisation, this is your last chance to join us for a full day of expert insight, honest discussion and practical takeaways, followed by drinks and networking. Secure one of the remaining places.

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