Strengthening Risk Oversight Director Essentials

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In brief: As corporate fiduciaries, directors play an essential role in risk oversight, a responsibility that has significantly increased in complexity over the past few years. This new Director Essentials report offers a detailed overview of practices each director can adopt to strengthen risk oversight. Each method includes red flags, suggested approaches, questions to ask, and additional resources. 

This resource can help directors:

• Increase awareness of emerging risks affecting companies today
• Learn the board vs. management role in risk
• Learn to set and adjust a risk profile
• Integrate strategy, risk, and performance discussions
• Improve risk reporting
• Reinforce risk accountability
• Check risk mitigation
• Assess risk culture 

Most relevant audiences: Board chairs, CEOs, chief risk officers (CROs), and chief audit executives (CAEs), audit and risk committee leaders and members, all board members and advisors concerned about risk