Airmic launches Roads to Repurposing

As the Airmic Conference 2021 kicks off in Brighton, the risk association has launched the fourth edition of its ‘Roads to’ thought leadership series, which focuses on the concept of corporate purpose within a shifting business and risk environment. Roads to Repurposing looks at what is being covered under the label ‘corporate purpose’ and ‘repurposing’, why […]

The switch: Negotiating between normality and crisis

Image showing antique switches

Low threshold, blame-free speak up tools – such as RiskTalk – are at the heart of responding to crises and the Problem of Switching between the normal and the crisis world. Our latest article was published in Oxford Answers today.

Oxford Answers Features RiskTalk co-founder Anette Mikes talking about Crisis Management

Particularly at times of unprecedented crises, leaders must listen intently to their employees and outsiders in order to learn fast and navigate uncertainty. In this presentation, Anette Mikes highlights the importance of processes and tools (such as RiskTalk) that leaders need in order to safeguard psychological safety and encourage people to speak up.

A conversation with Kurt Meyer, RiskTalk

As part of ‘PwC 2019 Global Risk, Internal Audit and ComplianceSurvey’, PwC Switzerland interviewed Kurt Meyer, risk management expert and strategic consultant at RiskTalk. In an interview with Marc Buser, expert in governance, risk and compliance at PwC, he explained his approach as to how digitisation combined with the company’s feedback culture can lead to […]

RiskTalk and Values At Risk: Risk Management For Corporate Purpose

Kurt and Anette share the latest findings from research and our experience of implementing a solution to Switzerland’s probably most critical infrastructure provider, which has transformed not only risk communication but also risk culture across the organisation.

Taking the temperature of risk

Kurt Meyer, Chief Risk Officer

When Kurt Meyer took the job as head of risk and insurance for the Swiss national grid, he had no idea that it would lead him to reshape the conversation around risk management.

An interview with Kurt Meyer (CRO of Swissgrid)

Swissgrid Operational Risk

Kurt is Chief Risk Officer of the Swiss national electricity provider, Swissgrid (based in Zurich). In this interview Kurt outlines how he and his team have been able to successfully leverage technology to ensure risk management is “working in action”, and bringing about material process improvements to Swissgrid. For context, this video clip provides a good insight […]

An interview with Anette Mikes

Anette is a Professor at HEC, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Anette’s papers have been published by the Harvard Business Review amongst other leading publications. Anette has studied in great depth how risk management in organisations can be truly effective. In this article from May, Anette shares her thoughts and insights into some big challenges we […]