Watch: Risk that pays - measuring the impact of better decisions

Risk has been quantified for decades. The real challenge is proving the value of reducing it. As organisations face growing pressure to justify investment boards want clearer evidence that risk spending delivers measurable business outcomes.

This webinar explores how AI tools and modern risk measurement techniques are helping organisations move beyond compliance-led assessments towards demonstrating the financial impact of risk improvements. Panellists will discuss why human judgement remains essential, where today’s AI-powered GRC tools fall short and how organisations can better measure the return on investment of risk management decisions.

Speakers

• DR SONJAI KUMAR, RISK MANAGEMENT EXPERT

I am a risk management researcher, author, and practitioner with over 30 years of experience in the Indian insurance industry, specialising in enterprise risk management, actuarial science, financial risk management, and corporate governance.

My academic work focuses on understanding how Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices influence firm performance, particularly within the insurance sector. My PhD research is entitled:

“Enterprise Risk Management Practices and Impact of ERM Determinants on Firms’ Performance: A Study on the Insurance Industry in India” was awarded the 3rd Prize in the 2025 EDAMBA PhD Thesis Competition.

European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA), based in Brussels, represents doctoral programmes from over 30 member countries. The thesis competition involves a rigorous two-stage international review process, making this recognition all the more meaningful.

• EILEEN LUDDEN, FOUNDER, FACE THE RISK

Eileen is a market and business strategist with 25+ years’ experience delivering measurable results through data, research, AI and customer insights. She specialises in business strategy, risk, product innovation, brand development, sales and customer segmentation, helping organisations make informed decisions, achieve strategic objectives and improve ROI.

• MICHAEL RASMUSSEN, GRC ANALYST & PUNDIT

If you ask my family what I do for a living, they might say that I “travel the world talking about risk.” And honestly, that wouldn’t be far from the truth. But the more formal introduction is that I am an analyst, researcher, storyteller, and, as the industry likes to remind me, the Father of GRC. More than 24 years ago, while at Forrester Research, I coined the acronym GRC and articulated it as a way to integrate governance, risk management, and compliance capabilities in strategy, process, and technology.

Today, through GRC 20/20 Research, I spend my days studying how organizations around the world navigate complexity and uncertainty. My job is to observe patterns, identify challenges, understand how strategy, process, and technology intersect, and help organizations evolve to be more effective, efficient, resilient, and agile. Along the way, I also founded GRC Report, a global news and insights platform focused entirely on governance, risk management, compliance, and business integrity news and insights around the world. It has become a place where practitioners, executives, policymakers, and technologists can see the GRC landscape through a global lens.

I also host two podcasts — Risk Is Our Business Podcast and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy Podcast — because I believe conversation is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing how people think about risk and integrity. These podcasts allow me to explore big ideas with remarkable minds from around the world, and they keep me grounded in the reality that risk is not merely a function — it is the fabric of every decision and every ambition. In many ways, I am an explorer of uncertainty. As an industry analyst, I map and monitor the ever-expanding GRC galaxy — now tracking over 1,500 solutions and the professional services orbiting them. The universe of GRC is vast, dynamic, and constantly in motion, and I am endlessly fascinated by how organizations chart their course through it.

• TIM LEECH, PUBLISHED AUTHOR & MANAGING DIRECTOR, RISK OVERSIGHT SOLUTIONS

Tim Leech is the author of Mission Critical Governance: Focusing on What Matters Most (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), creator of the MORA framework, and a pioneer in objective-centric governance, risk and assurance. Earlier in his career he developed the CARD (Collaborative Assurance & Risk Design) methodology, licensed it internationally through KPMG in 22 countries, and later sold his company and intellectual property to Paisley Consulting, where he served as Chief Methodology Officer during the integration period.