Resilience, Risk Signals and Interstellar Shifts: The Future of ERM with Emma Price

In this stardate transmission of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams in Emma Price, Deloitte Partner and UK Enterprise Risk Management Lead, to chart how risk management has transformed across decades, and where it’s set to warp next.

Their voyage begins with language itself: from business continuity and disaster recovery to the all-encompassing term “resilience.” Emma explains why substituting “risk” with “resilience” often earns more traction in boardrooms and beyond, and how resilience can unify disciplines too often stranded in siloes. From there, they confront the bad and ugly of risk programs, such as isolated operations, failure to account for interconnectivity, and compliance exercises masquerading as strategy.

The discussion moves through third-party risk, the growing role of external intelligence on geopolitical, economic, and regulatory turbulence, and the big drivers shaping risk programs in the UK today. Emma and Michael scan the horizon of ERM’s future, from strategy and technology to the value of managed services, and debate how risk leaders can avoid drifting into orbit around checklists and instead plot resilient, forward-facing courses.

For risk officers, boards, and strategists, this episode is a navigational chart across the risk nebula, and a reminder that the enterprise mission demands not paperwork, but perspective, integration, and resilience at warp speed.