Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
In our increasingly complex environment, it is critical all business professionals understand and embrace risk management as a key discipline. This program has been designed to help leaders anticipate, prepare for, and quickly respond to evolving business threats and opportunities. By understanding and properly managing risk, businesses can thrive, create value, and achieve a competitive advantage.
- As a leader, learn how you can anticipate, prepare for, and quickly respond to evolving business threats and opportunities.
- Learn how to apply the Enterprise Risk Management Framework as well as utilize tools like the Risk and Control assessments, Risk Bow Tie, and Key Risk indicators.
- Develop effective ways to communicate risk strategies to key stakeholders including senior management and boards.
This highly interactive and hands-on learning program will include instructor led discussions, group discussions and case studies and real-life examples all supported by a current and comprehensive resource materials package.
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Schedule
- February 26, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- February 27, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- February 28, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- March 5, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- March 6, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- March 7, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Saturday, March 8 - Friday, March 14 --> 2-3 hour online optional exam, to be done on your own time during this week (can be done in parts within the week).
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will learn:
- Learn about Risk, Risk Management, and the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Develop the ability to identify, prioritize and treat the various risks that may have a critical impact on business and choose the optimal risk mitigation strategies.
- Develop successful strategies for reporting on risks for senior management and boards.
- Learn to use key risk management tools: Risk and Control assessments, Risk Bow Tie and Key Risk indicators.
- Understand how Enterprise Risk Management is being applied within our current environment of COVID-19, and with emerging business trends such as ESG.
- Develop the ability to predict various risks that may have a critical impact on your business.
- Learn a variety of risk response and management approaches.
- Develop effective risk communication and reporting to all stakeholders.
- Exposure to and application of tools, templates and instruments for risk identification, analysis, and evaluation.
Earn a Digital Badge
Our new collection of digital badges can be earned through the completion of any of our certificate programs offered in our professional development catalogue. Collect these digital badges to add to your website, social profiles, email signature and more. These badges are an easy way to visually communicate your skills and accomplishments to your peers and network. Digital badges will be awarded based on course completion requirements.
Who Will Benefit
Accounting and finance professionals who are responsible for balancing risk management with performance goals of an organization.
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Attendance Requirements
To earn your CPD hours, you must attend 80% of live sessions. We understand that sometimes unplanned absences happen. Please reach out to our Operations Team if you're unable to attend a session as scheduled.
Participants who complete the program are eligible to write an optional certificate exam. The exam is not mandatory, however the Digital Badge will be awarded only to those who successfully complete the exam. Course email confirmations for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tracking purposes will be sent to all participants regardless of exam participation.
How to Access the Course
NOTE: This newly revised, six-module, program has shifted to live, instructor-led, online learning. We have adapted the interactive learning modules to include regularly scheduled breaks and digital breakout rooms for group discussions. The course also includes lectures using current, real-life case studies, videos, and polling questions. Recordings of all sessions will be available to all registrants.
We're pleased to invite you to register for our Certificate courses. Whether or not you're a CPA, you're more than welcome to join us on this learning journey. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Don't worry if you don't have a CPA Ontario ID yet; you can easily set up your account right here. Let's begin your learning adventure together.
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the seminar to appear on your BlackBoard page.
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Speaker(s)
William (Bill) Wesioly, CPA, CMA (Ontario), is a Risk Management consultant and Leadership Coach who enriches the effectiveness of people and organizations through both skill and heart. His background is in the Financial Services industry, first with BMO and then with RBC. The last 15 years of his banking career was in successfully building and leading Enterprise Risk Management programs.
Testimonials
I really appreciated the facilitator - Bill. He was very clear, followed the material and ensured that all participants were engaged with the session - not something that is easy to do in the virtual world.