Risk is Our Business

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen sits down with leaders from Norway’s Institute of Internal Auditors for a conversation about how culture shapes governance, risk, compliance, and assurance.

The discussion begins with Norwegian business culture and one of its defining characteristics: trust. They explore how trust influences decision-making, accountability, and assurance practices, and how tha...

Recorded live at Risk-!n Conference 2026, this episode of Risk Is Our Business features Bruno Parnet, Manager of Risk Management at Audemars Piguet, for a conversation on the human side of risk management and what it takes to build a program that genuinely supports the business.

Captain Michael Rasmussen begins by asking a familiar question to any listener—what keeps risk leaders awake at night? For Bruno, the answer lies not...

Recorded live at Risk-!n Conference 2026, this episode of Risk Is Our Business features Aurore Chatard in a conversation about what it truly takes to build resilience in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

Captain Michael Rasmussen and Aurore begin by discussing what keeps resilience leaders awake at night and why many organizations still struggle to move beyond a compliance-driven view of continuity and resilience. T...

Recorded live at Risk-!n Conference 2026, this episode of Risk Is Our Business begins with a warning from Adrian Clements. Before agreeing to come aboard, he made it clear that he intended to "shake the tree." Captain Michael Rasmussen's response was simple: engage.

What follows is a conversation that challenges some of the profession's most deeply held assumptions. Adrian argues that many organizations are still navigating with ou...

Recorded live at the Risk-!n Conference 2026, this episode of Risk Is Our Business features Hermann Suter, Head of Group Enterprise Risk Management at Barry Callebaut Group, in a conversation on how risk management must evolve in an environment where the speed of change is accelerating faster than many organizations can absorb.

Hermann and Captain Michael Rasmussen begin with a deceptively simple question. If organizations claim to...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes Darren Smith for a deep dive into third-party risk management in the age of the extended enterprise.

The conversation explores how modern organizations now operate through vast and increasingly interconnected networks of suppliers, partners, outsourcers, and service providers, creating a web of dependencies that stretches far beyond traditional organization...

In this return episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes Kristina Wiese Tranberg back to the bridge, joined by Karoline Corfitz and Morten Bjerregaard, for a practical deep dive into internal controls and their role in modern GRC.

Building on Kristina’s previous appearance, the conversation shifts from operating models and transformation to a core question of what is the real value of controls? The g...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen sits down with Michael Erlandsson Jensen at April Coffee in Copenhagen, a busy café whose ambient hum feels oddly right for a conversation grounded in real-world experience.

Michael opens by tracing his pat...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen brings together a cross-functional crew of risk, audit, cyber, and technology leaders for a candid conversation recorded in the Netherlands. Joined by David Ngu, Brett Steinmetz, Jos Bredero, and Eric Groen, the discussion opens with a simple question: what actually keeps you up at 1 a.m. when it comes to risk?

From there, the conversation explores the key drivers s...

In this return episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen reconnects with Tony Martin-Vegue for a wide-ranging conversation built around his new book, From Heatmaps to Histograms: A Practical Guide to Cyber Risk Quantification.

At the center of the discussion is a simple but uncomfortable idea: most organizations aren’t really measuring cyber risk, they’re describing it. Heatmaps, scoring models, and qua...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen connects over a slightly distant comms link (via Teams) with Hakkı Sarp, Enterprise Risk Management leader at QIAGEN, for a conversation on how risk management is being reshaped by today’s fast-moving environment.

They begin by examining the limitations of traditional risk practices, and why approaches built for slower, more predictable conditions are struggli...

In this return episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes back Graeme Keith for a sequel to Wrath of Math, this time shifting from models to meaning.

They take aim at cookie-cutter risk management, unpacking what separates genuine practice from templated frameworks that look good on paper but fail to influence decisions. The conversation centers...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen is joined by Karan Rao, Head of Enterprise Risk at Embark Student Corp., for a conversation that started not in a boardroom but on LinkedIn.

A post from Karan caught Michael’s attention on how the best risk managers aren’t the ones with the most complex models, but the ones who can walk into a room, read the people, interrogate the data, and explain risk...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes Anne Louise Higgins, Global Head of Cyber Governance, Risk and Control at BNY Mellon, for a conversation about how the risk profession has evolved and who will be leading it into the future.

Anne reflects on the growing role of women in risk management and cybersecurity, and how diversity of experience and perspective strengthens decision-making at every le...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen connects over a slightly long-distance subspace channel (also known as a video call) with Alex Dali, President of the G31000 Risk Institute, to explore the evolution of one of the most widely recognized frameworks in modern risk management.

Alex walks through the story of ISO 31000, where the standard came from, how it has evolved since its original release, and wha...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen is joined by Geoff Trickey, founder of Psychological Consultancy and creator of the Risk Type Compass™, alongside Elliot Phillips, Principal Risk Psychologist, for a conversation that shifts the focus of risk management from systems to psychology.

They begin by unpacking psychometrics—what it is, how it works, and why measuring personality traits can provide p...

In this return episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes back Amir Ramezanpour to unpack the thinking behind his new book, Beyond Controls: Reshaping Risk Into Intelligent Advantage.

The conversation begins with a direct challenge to risk managers: too much of risk management is still focused on controls. Controls that validate compliance. Controls that document activity. Controls that comfort regulators. ...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen is joined by Chyono Flynn, Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Rolls-Royce, for a candid conversation about the realities of running risk management inside one of the world’s most complex engineering organizations.

They begin with what really keeps risk leaders awake at 2 a.m., which is not abstract frameworks, but execution risk, governance expectations, an...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen is joined by Fayadh Alenezi, strategic risk leadership architect and presilience advisor, for a candid discussion on where risk management stands today and where it needs to go next.

They begin by unpacking the current state of practice and what works, what doesn’t, and why too much risk management still feels like process without purpose. From there, the conv...