Member priorities we're working on
Based on specific member priorities, our engagement managers provide targeted support through bespoke collaboration opportunities. Below are a few examples of the challenges members are solving through the network.
Travel risk management framework
We’re supporting a member as they go through the policy development stage for a travel risk management framework, connecting them with other risk leaders to compare the content and communication of travel risk management frameworks at different organisations.
Launching a risk engagement and training campaign:
We’re helping a member to build stronger awareness and capability around risk management by highlighting specific approaches and materials other organisations are using to make risk more practical, visible, and approachable.
Crisis and incident exercise education:
We’re helping a member as they plan to formalise a consistent process for implementing and tracking post-incident reviews and enhancements, facilitating connections to other risk leaders who have been on a similar journey.
Maturing assurance mapping:
We’re giving a member insights into what others are doing to mature their assurance mapping activities; i.e. going beyond the actual mapping itself to deliver more value for the business.
Setting up executive-level audit and risk committees:
We’re supporting a member that is currently looking at the structure of its governance committees, by facilitating discussions with peers to discover how they have established executive-level ARCs and the terms of reference used for these.
Integration of technology systems:
We’re setting up one-to-one, targeted discussions for a member that has just acquired a large company and will require a significant integration of IT systems.
Developing and using operational risk registers
We’re supporting a member to build out their suite of operational risk registers by pooling insights and specific templates from other risk teams that have been through a similar process.
Deploying compliant internal controls
We’re helping a large organisation develop internal controls to meet requirements across a variety of jurisdictions, facilitating collaboration with compliance-focused resources from other companies.
Clarifying roles between risk and business continuity
We’re connecting a risk leader to peers who have comprehensively defined the responsibilities of risk and business continuity teams, i.e., to avoid duplication of efforts and improve coordination.
Bringing more creativity into risk communications
We’re facilitating collaborations for a member to explore how peers have injected creativity into risk management, ensuring that key concepts and risk roles are easy to absorb for business functions.
AI and risk appetite
We’re supporting a risk leader as they incorporate AI into their risk appetite framework, setting up collaborations so that they can discuss how to approach this challenge with other likeminded members.
Benchmarking risk assessment criteria
As a member prepares to present a plan for updating risk assessment criteria to executives, we’re helping them by sense checking how their criteria compares to those of other companies.
Effective business partnering across the organisation
We’re supporting a member as they work with the business to make risk management less of a compliance exercise and more of a decision-making tool, by connecting them with other organisations who have established a strong risk culture.
Effectively leveraging KRIs in reporting risk appetite
We’re connecting a member to other risk leaders with an approved risk appetite framework, to discuss how they are deploying and monitoring KRIs within their organisation.
Approaches to critical safety control testing
We’re helping a member as they conduct a review of their critical safety control testing and verification process, highlighting approaches that peers in their sector have implemented successfully.
Effective approaches to controls and attestation
We’re supporting a member as they continue their work, to adhere to the UK Corporate Governance Code (UKCGC), by facilitating collaborations between relevant peers on how they are preparing for Provision 29.
Education, training and awareness for all levels
We’re giving a member useful tools and knowledge from our network of risk leaders, so that they can uplift risk management capability across their organisation and unlock strategic advantages.
Developing guidance around emerging risk process:
We’re helping a member to validate their approach to building an emerging risk process, connecting them with other organisations to share knowledge on this topic.
Recent and upcoming meeting highlights
Our network meetings regularly bring groups together to share practical experiences and brainstorm new ideas, while bespoke meetings connect very small groups to focus on a specific issue or challenge.
Data aggregation tools
Our custom-built data aggregation tools provide invaluable insights that help risk teams get time-consuming tasks done quickly and efficiently.
Specialist benchmarks
In-depth benchmark reports help members compare and validate their approaches in key areas.
Pulse check: incorporating risk into the annual budget process
This Risk Leadership Network pulse check presents insights from risk leaders at 8 large, mostly listed, multinational companies, operating in diverse sectors.
Emerging risks in the retail and consumer goods industries: 2025 analysis
What are the top emerging risk trends in the retail and consumer goods sectors? Based on data from our Horizon Scanning Tool, this report breaks down key developments across six PESTLE categories.
Pulse check: regulatory risk in the telecommunications sector
For this pulse check report, we asked risk leaders at 5 telecoms companies to share their key regulatory risks and outline their primary approach to managing related threats and opportunities.
Risk operating models: mining and resources
This report provides insights into the risk reporting lines, team structures and operating models at 10 companies, of 10,000 employees or more, in the mining and resources sectors.
Pulse check: regulatory risk in the telecommunications sector
How are organisations in the telecoms sector managing the variety of regulatory risks (present and emerging) they face? We find out from 5 risk leaders how they are approaching
this challenge.
Pulse check: non-financial risk assessment criteria
For this pulse check report, we surveyed risk leaders at 9 companies, asking them a series of questions about the impact categories they use as part of their risk assessment criteria.
Pulse check: risk ownership at a business-unit level
In this report, we capture 8 practitioners' approaches to setting risk ownership at a business-unit level. The key question: do certain risks have to sit on all business unit risk registers, or can they decide?
Risk operating models: mining and resources
This report provides insights into the risk reporting lines, team structures and operating models at 10 companies, of 10,000 employees or more, in the mining and resources sectors.
Risk operating models pulse check: stock exchanges
Risk Leadership Network conducted a pulse check to compare the risk operating models at major stock exchanges, including data on the organisation's risk team structure, size and responsibilities.
Uplifting risk practice in 5 key areas: energy sector deep-dive
In this report, we compile insights on how to advance the practice of risk management from risk leaders at 6 energy companies operating in Australia and New Zealand.
Governance committees & risk management: benchmark report
We surveyed risk leaders at 56 companies for this benchmark on the organisation of governance committees, covering a range of sectors and geographies to compare approaches and identify common trends.
Operationalising risk appetite: a practical, peer-led approach
This report is a simple and easy-to-use guide that will help companies across the maturity spectrum operationalise risk appetite in their business.