Managing Risk in Strategy: Premortems & Red Teams
Kill your own strategy in private so the market cannot in public.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your managing risk controls were designed for a threat landscape that has since moved on — and the board is being assured on yesterday's map. Boards are no longer asked whether risk was managed; they are asked what they knew and when — and the register is not a defence. You will build the dashboard, draft the appetite statement and command the incident — the full craft of managing risk leadership, practised rather than described.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design a managing risk risk architecture that anticipates rather than documents.
- Build managing risk resilience: continuity, recovery and the capacity to absorb shocks.
- Price managing risk risk into strategy, capital and operating decisions.
- Report managing risk to the board in a way that informs decisions rather than reassures them.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
When the River Moved
A national power utility built its supply chain on a river basin whose hydrology has shifted; two plants and thousands of contracts are exposed to managing risk disruption. The climate models disagree on timing, not direction.
Your decision: Choose the adaptation portfolio — relocate, harden, or diversify — with capital, community and lender implications priced in.
IPAT Data Lab™
The managing risk incidents at a regional bank are individually small and collectively serious — and no one has connected them.
Dataset: Synthetic multi-year incident, near-miss and control data for a regional bank.
Your task: Build the heat map, test the tolerances, and write the 4 a.m. command card for the top exposure.
A managing risk heat map, impact tolerances and an incident command card.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Produce an enterprise risk and resilience blueprint for your institution: appetite, architecture, incident readiness and the investment sequence.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Decision Intelligence Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Enterprise risk management (COSO ERM lineage)
- • Three lines of defence
- • Business continuity standards (ISO 22301-aligned)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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