A5-B1: Risk Assessment and Management
November 10, 2011 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
November 11, 2011 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
There are always risks associated with running a charity or non-profit organization. Ultimately, it is your Board of Directors’ job to identify risks and oversee risk management. Smart boards don’t avoid risk. Rather they assess, manage and mitigate risk issues. After all, leading-edge organizations take risks all the time.
The goals of this interactive and pragmatic session are to:
- Understand risk management and the Board’s and staff’s role in proactively and strategically responding to different types of risk
- Identify risk issues, rate and prioritize them and devise strategies to respond to them
- Help Executive Directors learn how to oversee risk management in tandem with their Boards of Directors
- Provide a risk management framework along with practical resources and tools.
- Join this high-energy session and watch a dry subject become engaging, meaningful and practical.
Suzanne Gibson has been “awakening the potential” of Canadian non-profit organizations for over 20 years. Suzanne inspires new and established organizations to “dream big” and unite around an idea, strategy or plan to turn those dreams into reality.
Suzanne has worked with grass-root, city, municipal, provincial, national and international organizations including poverty, homelessness, community services, the environment, health, children’s and youth programming, immigrant and refugee services, and women’s issues. She has been an instructor at York University’s Schulich School of Business in the Non-profit Management and Leadership Program for executive education as well as at Ryerson University. She has also taken a leadership role on seven volunteer boards and trains and speaks nation-wide on organizational capacity building, fund development, leadership building, social innovation, governance and other issues of importance to the non-profit sector.
