Corporate Risk & Crisis Management
Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the events that threaten organisational continuity, enterprise risk, crisis leadership and organisational resilience.
5 Days
Programme overview
Every organisation carries enterprise risk, but the organisations that weather a genuine crisis well are rarely the ones that simply have more risk documentation, they are the ones that have practised leading through disruption before it happens. Corporate Risk & Crisis Management addresses both halves of that challenge: the ongoing discipline of enterprise risk identification, assessment and mitigation, and the specific leadership, communication and continuity capabilities a crisis demands.
The programme moves from foundational enterprise risk practice through crisis preparedness and incident management, into the leadership and stakeholder-communication skills that determine whether an organisation's response builds or destroys trust, and finally to recovery and the organisational resilience that allows a business to emerge from disruption intact.
Why this programme matters
Crises rarely fail organisations because the underlying risk was unforeseeable, they fail organisations because the response was improvised. Enterprise risk management identifies exposure before it materialises; crisis management determines what happens once it does. Leaders who have never practised crisis decision-making, stakeholder communication or business-continuity execution are making those decisions for the first time under the worst possible conditions. Building this capability in advance protects continuity, reputation and stakeholder trust precisely when they are most at risk.
Learning objectives
- Apply a structured enterprise risk-management framework across strategic, operational and financial risk.
- Identify, assess and prioritise the risks most likely to threaten organisational continuity.
- Design mitigation and business-continuity measures before disruption occurs.
- Build and exercise a crisis-preparedness and incident-management plan.
- Lead decisively during a crisis, under pressure and with incomplete information.
- Communicate effectively with employees, regulators, media and other stakeholders during an incident.
- Coordinate emergency response and incident management in the immediate aftermath of an event.
- Plan and execute recovery, and build organisational resilience for future disruption.
Key programme highlights
- Enterprise risk identification, assessment and mitigation
- Building organisational resilience before disruption occurs
- Crisis preparedness and incident-management frameworks
- Emergency response planning and execution
- Crisis leadership under pressure and with incomplete information
- Crisis communication to employees, regulators, media and the public
- Stakeholder management through a live incident
- Recovery planning and business continuity
Training methodology
The programme combines executive briefings, enterprise-risk case studies, crisis-simulation exercises and structured incident-response scenarios, giving participants the opportunity to practise crisis decision-making and communication in a controlled environment before they have to do so in a real event.
Who should attend
- Executives and Senior Managers
- Risk Officers and Risk Management Professionals
- Business Continuity and Resilience Professionals
- Corporate Communications and Public Relations Professionals
- Operations Managers
- Compliance and Governance Professionals
- Crisis Management Team Members
Organisational impact
- A structured, organisation-wide enterprise risk-management framework
- Improved preparedness for low-probability, high-impact events
- Faster, more coordinated incident response
- Stronger stakeholder and public trust through disciplined crisis communication
- Reduced business disruption and faster recovery following an incident
- Greater organisational resilience to future disruption
Personal impact
- A practical framework for enterprise risk identification and assessment
- Greater confidence leading decisively under pressure
- Stronger crisis-communication skills for high-stakes, high-visibility situations
- Improved ability to coordinate stakeholders during an active incident
- A structured approach to recovery planning, not just incident response
Course outline
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