To Boldly List What No Risk Register Has Listed Before: Evolving Risk with Renee Murphy

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Renee Murphy, independent analyst, storyteller, and founder of The Storyteller’s Circle, to reflect on insights emerging from a recent workshop they led together. One theme rose quickly to the surface: are risk registers keeping pace with reality, or are many organizations still flying with decade-old assumptions?

They explore how today’s emerging risks, from AI misuse and deepfakes to data poisoning and automated misinformation, demand more than recycled top-10 lists and stale heat maps. If the world is shifting at warp speed, risk management must evolve its star charts too.

From there, the conversation jumps to the bridge of the Enterprise (naturally). Renee and Michael unpack the risk postures of Starfleet captains and how every organization needs the right mix of boldness and restraint to navigate uncertainty without flying the ship into a spatial anomaly.

They round out the episode exploring the fear and promise of AI—not as a looming replacement for the crew, but as a co-pilot that enhances perception, speeds analysis, and reveals risks before red alerts sound.

Because great risk management doesn’t just brace for the unknown, it boldly goes toward it with intelligence, imagination, and the right crew at the helm.