Workshop Programme
Excelledia Management Company in partnership with UK Finance Risk and Resilience Academy and KRisk, will enable delegates to develop frameworks, practices and behaviours that instil operational resilience disciplines across the firm.
Following the release of consultation paper CP29/19 the academy explores the principles involved in managing risk and enabling a resilient culture. It makes effective use of organisational knowledge, encourages effective and empowered leaders and enables organisations to deliver on their commitments in the changing environment.
At its core the academy is a comprehensive training course where senior managers follow a two-month programme that includes two, two-day workshops, supplemented by reading lists and downloadable resources. Delegates will have access to dedicated forums to discuss their experiences and receive advice from experienced risk professionals.
ACADEMY AIMS
Benefits to staff
- Improved risk and resilience thinking to provide confidence when servicing customers
- Better support your organisation in influencing and improving a resilient culture
- Communicate and manage risk in an integrated positive way
- Effectively use risk tools and techniques to improve resilience capability
- Understand own risk behaviours and effectively influence others
Benefits to staff
- Understand the disciplines that make up resilience
- Reduced likelihood of threats impacting business
- Assurance and compliance with risk and resilience regulation
- Improved incident management
- Better understanding of the UK’s operational resilience regulatory environment
THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
The Academy programme and content is designed to be agile, immersive and responsive, ensuring that we can understand the challenges faced by the cohort and tailor the programme accordingly.
The two-month programme will feature up-to-date case studies and the latest news issues. It will be grounded in the latest industry information and up-todate regulatory direction as well as well-established models, to engage innovative thinking.
More pointedly, the faculty will use the cohort’s own experiences and challenges to make the programme as dynamic, practical and helpful, as possible.
To include but not restricted to:
Podcast introductions from the faculty
Receive detailed faculty feedback on your experiences
Q&A session with your faculty and senior practitioners to answer your critical questions
Join a live monthly webinar with your faculty
Benefit from your faculty’s close analysis of other cohort participants challenges
Carefully curated additional reading and resources so you can take your understanding further
Dedicated private forums to discuss your experiences in confidence
Safe, confidential environment to maximise depth of analysis of real-life challenges
Discuss case-studies on relevant topics and issues
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The recommended participants should be colleagues responsible for development of their organisations strategy for operational risk and resilience, these include:
- Organisational influencers: CEO, CRO, Head of Audit, Head of Compliance, Head of Risk, NEDs
- COO: according to the regulator, responsible for resilience
- A risk or resilience manager within a business unit/ function with responsibility for the first line of defence for risk and resilience
- A member of the risk and compliance team with responsibility for risk and resilience strategy or governance who needs to better understand how to more effectively manage risk and resilience
- A risk or resilience champion or coordinator who needs to influence others to in support of the risk and resilience strategy and objectives
- Specific functions with responsibility for risk and resilience management: security, safety, cyber, environment
THE LEARNING JOURNEY
360 learning journey example

Social Learning
The cohort will be formed of a peer group who will learn from each other’s experiences and issues in a confidential and supportive environment under Chatham House rules. As experienced facilitators, the faculty will help the cohort explore individual concerns through frank conversation and ‘social learning’ where each participant is urged to share practical examples, best practice, concerns and successes from within their own organisation over the course of the programme.
This 360-degree approach will ensure that each attendee can reflect fully on what they have learned, tailor their approach, and test different working practices within their organisation. The aim of the Academy is to offer practical, rather than theoretical, solutions.
Learning by doing
The approach of the faculty will be to encourage ‘action learning’ or ‘learning by doing’. Over the course of the programme the cohort will be encouraged to apply, test and feedback on what they have learned through each aspect of the Academy, sharing their experiences and best practice with the group to benefit from feedback and diverse perspectives. This learning cycle should reinforce better working practices and help the cohort to develop behaviours which put customers and values at the heart of decision making.
FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Grant Kennedy
Managing Director, KRisk

Grant has worked with senior levels of staff across multiple sectors from critical national infrastctures to finance and insurance. This has led to a rare blend of experience, skills and knowledge capable of influencing and improving operational risk and resilience performance.
Since founding KRisk, Grant, has taken on interim head of risk and resilience roles at critical national infrastructure companies in the utilities and transport sector. Grant alongside his business partner Nicola Brannan has
delivered many successful projects across multiple sectors. Many organisations use KRisk’s courses products and services – further information can be found on ww.krisk.co.
Grant is also the IRMs mentor for the Resilience module of the International Diploma.
Dr Aarti Anhal
Associate Director, KRisk

Aarti is a resilience coach, advisor and mentor. Renowned for her passion for the subject and dynamic style of facilitation, she has been working in the field of security, risk and resilience since 2001.
Formerly a leading risk software company, Aarti has spent her professional career equipping operational teams and executives with the skills and tools they need to build their resilience capabilities and succeed in today’s complex environment.
In addition to delivering advisory services to develop and validate her clients’ resilience, Aarti has successfully led the enterprise-wide implementation of risk and resilience software platforms for airlines, airports, emergency services and government agencies in the UK and across Europe. These projects have helped her clients to strengthen their procedures and processes, improve delegation and ownership of responsibility across the organisation and generate real-time information to
support risk-informed decision making.
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