Bryan’s Blog

Devolve to Evolve

In their McKinsey article “Decision-making: how leaders can get out of the way”, Iskandar Amino, Aaron De Smet and Kanika Kakkar highlight the need to devolve decision making for organisations to become more agile. One thing they did not mention was that devolved decision making needs communication about the organisation’s appetite for risk in certain

Expectations Management

I’m back from a wonderful six-week trip to Canada and the US visiting family and friends. As always, I like to write a blog about risk management from the experiences I have when on holiday. Some of our activities had a risk element to them, for example, boat camping in northern British Columbia and taking

Did Someone Say Agile?

Recently I was running an education workshop for a group of 35 leaders from a financial services organisation. We looked at their risk culture survey results, their organisation’s value statements, the behaviours they see from staff and the behaviours they will need to portray as leader, to continue to build a strong culture of accountability

Lock in Success

Following on from my top three tips for you before you take up a new CRO or senior risk job offer, to avoid a nasty surprise, here are my three tips for when you start the role, to lock in your future success: Stand in the shoes of others: As you go through your induction

Surprise Surprise!

I was working with a CEO recently who had been in the job for about a year. When they started, they found – surprise, surprise – all was not as it was made out to be. It was a very difficult environment. The challenges were more than challenges, they were wicked problems. And the road