Risk Management
Most risk assessments are written by people who have never had to live with the risk they rated.
Applied, ground-level risk assessment, evacuation and travel risk planning, and operational risk management, delivered across more than 40 countries and carried personally in executive-level and chief-risk-officer-equivalent roles, not modelled from a spreadsheet.
Quick answer: This practice delivers applied risk assessment for sites, projects and travel, risk management plan and programme design, and operational risk advisory, grounded in risk personally carried in operational-risk, chief-risk-officer-equivalent and audit-committee roles, not modelled in isolation from consequence. An applied risk assessment starts from A$6,500, risk management programme design and uplift is scoped and priced at engagement, and a standing risk advisory retainer is available from A$3,500 per month.
Most risk management advice comes from people who have modelled a risk register without ever having to answer for the risk it described. This practice's risk management work is built on the opposite: a Commonwealth Executive Level 2 operational-risk appointment inside a $40 billion federal social insurance scheme, partnering more than twenty business units and governing risk across thirty to forty concurrent technology programmes; a chief-risk-officer-equivalent role for a state-owned critical infrastructure entity, reporting directly to its board; an independent seat on a council audit and risk committee overseeing a regional economy worth billions; and, before all of that, hundreds of applied security and risk assessments, evacuation plans and travel risk management plans delivered for mining, energy, finance, construction, pharmaceutical and telecommunications clients across more than 40 countries. As Chief Executive of Intelligent Travel, this practice also built and led the algorithm and platform behind an independent analysis of more than one million international journeys. The risk findings produced here have already had to survive being lived with, not just published.
Applied risk assessment at genuine international scale
Hundreds of security and risk assessments, evacuation plans and travel risk management plans delivered across more than 40 countries, for mining, energy, finance, construction and telecommunications clients.
Risk carried operationally, not just modelled
Executive Level 2 operational-risk accountability, a chief-risk-officer-equivalent board-reporting role, and independent audit and risk committee membership, all held directly.
From site-level risk to enterprise risk
Ground-level risk assessment work that connects directly into enterprise-wide governance and maturity diagnosis, rather than sitting apart from it as a disconnected exercise.
Track record
- Commonwealth Executive Level 2 operational-risk appointment: inside a $40 billion federal social insurance scheme, partnering more than twenty business units and governing risk across thirty to forty concurrent technology programmes.
- Chief-risk-officer-equivalent, reporting to the board: ran, in effect, as chief risk officer for a state-owned critical infrastructure entity covering rail, freight and telecommunications, rebuilding the enterprise risk framework.
- Independent risk oversight: independent member of a council audit and risk committee overseeing a regional economy worth billions, and governed an AML/CTF remediation programme for a retail bank back from the brink.
- Hundreds of applied risk engagements across 40+ countries: security and risk assessments, evacuation plans and travel risk management plans for mining, energy, finance, construction, pharmaceutical and telecommunications clients.
- Chief Executive, Intelligent Travel: founded and led a hyper-personalised travel risk business, building the algorithm and platform behind an independent analysis of more than one million international journeys.
How this relates to Enterprise Risk Governance and Board & Executive Advisory
Risk Management is the applied, ground-level discipline: assessing risk for a specific site, project, journey or operation, and designing the plan or programme that manages it. Enterprise Risk Governance is the enterprise-wide framework, architecture and maturity diagnosis that this applied work feeds into. Board & Executive Advisory is the standing advisory access that reports risk findings upward to the board. A risk assessment or programme built here can flow directly into governance uplift work through Enterprise Risk Governance and into board-level reporting through Board & Executive Advisory, without the three services duplicating each other.
Generic risk consulting vs this practice
| Dimension | Generic risk consulting | This practice |
|---|---|---|
| Operational risk experience | Modelled or advised on risk without personal accountability for it | Executive Level 2, chief-risk-officer-equivalent and audit committee roles held directly |
| Geographic breadth | Single-market focus | Applied risk assessments delivered across 40+ countries |
| Sector breadth | Narrow sector specialisation | Mining, energy, finance, construction, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and government |
| Personal accountability | No personal exposure to the risk rated | Risk carried directly in EL2, CRO-equivalent and audit-committee roles |
| Governance linkage | Risk treated as a standalone exercise | Connects directly into Enterprise Risk Governance and Board & Executive Advisory |
This is where it started
The Risk Management channel on LinkedIn is where this practice's applied, ground-level risk experience is discussed directly, with a dedicated, engaged following built from decades of operational risk work.
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A single templated assessment, a full programme build scoped to the operation, or standing advisory coverage.
1. Applied Risk Assessment
From A$6,500
An independent risk assessment of a site, project or travel programme, benchmarked against risk personally carried in operational and board-reporting roles, not a generic register.
2. Risk Management Programme Design & Uplift
Scoped and priced at engagement
Design or uplift of a risk management plan or programme, including travel and operational risk. Not templated: scale, sector and geography vary too widely to publish a fixed rate.
3. Standing Risk Advisory Retainer
From A$3,500 / month
Retained access to a senior risk practitioner for ongoing advisory, programme currency and risk reporting support, scoped and confirmed in writing before it begins.
All fees in Australian dollars (AUD), indicative and exclude GST. Final scope and fee confirmed against your requirements.
If your risk assessments are written by people who have never had to live with the finding, that is worth testing before the risk does it for you.
To commission an applied risk assessment, scope a programme design, or discuss a standing advisory retainer:
Start a scoping conversationTony Ridley MSc CSyP FSyI SRMCP