The Masters Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management - Schulich ...

MESSAGE FROM THE
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Every year organizations give up
25-30% of their revenue due to ineffective
management and decision making.
This includes factors that contribute to
financial, strategic and operational risks.
– Harvard Business Review
The Masters Certificate in Enterprise Risk
Management is a comprehensive program that will
raise your level of risk management maturity and
capability by delivering the practical approaches
and tools you need to effectively manage risk.
P R O G R A M M O D U L E D E S C R I P T I O N S
MODULE 1
Duration: 3 days
Risk Management Leadership
Managing risks at the strategic or operational level is
about selecting the right risks and managing and making
decisions while facing uncertainty. Leadership with the
right perspective for managing uncertainty is critical.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
■ Frameworks that can be systematized and adapted
to your needs
■ The impact of change, culture and the coming
skills shortage
■ How YOUR risk leadership, communication, accountability,
decisions and approach affect results
Business leaders know that sound risk management
produces unquestionable value and benefits,
including greater consistency in achieving
organizational goals. The best leaders take smart
risks, know how to manage within their risk
appetite and create resilience through preparedness.
This program teaches practical methodologies to
operationalize the management of risk while
achieving business objectives.
Our instructors are highly accomplished
professionals dedicated to the discipline of risk
management – not just in theory, but in practice.
The faculty presents the depth of expertise and the
complex blend of competencies necessary to
effectively integrate the management of risk across
any organization in the public or private sector.
MODULE 2
Duration: 3 days
Organizational Alignment
An organization’s greatest risks can be embedded in its
inability to align resources with desired outcomes. Learn
to adapt risk management frameworks to your
organization’s requirements.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
■ To define and measure factors that enable risk alignment
across an organization
■ Perspectives for defining, representing and understanding
risk tolerance and risk appetite strategically and
operationally
■ Risk communication strategies that achieve buy-in and
awareness at the right level in the organization
Don’t miss this chance to engage in 18 days of
intense training that will benefit you for the rest
of your career.
MODULE 3
Duration: 2 days
Risk Assessments and Cost of Risk
Dragica Grbavac
Program Director
Centre of Excellence
for Enterprise Risk Management
Schulich Executive Education Centre
Schulich School of Business, York University
Enhance your risk assessment effectiveness by exploring
previously unnoticed vulnerabilities that may have
unintended consequences for your organization.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
■ To simplify the complex world of costing the risk relative
to the decision-making process
■ To develop risk scenarios through case studies and your
own organization
■ To determine and prepare for the most suitable execution
of a risk response
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