AFERM Risk Chats

On this episode we chat with AFERM President, Ken Fletcher, about AFERM's strategy over the next few years, a recent article regarding the "new normal" after COVID, the upcoming AFERM Virtual Summit and our annual survey!

This week Paul and Tal chat with one of the founders of AFERM, Doug Webster, about his new book that covers value based management concepts. We also talk about the risk management implications of events such as the current COVID pandemic.

This week Paul and Tal reminisce about their favorite Risk Chats and invite you to provide suggestions for future podcasts!

On this Risk Chat we speak with Bert Nuehring, Thomas Holland and Sarah Choi about lessons learned from the 2019 AGA AFERM ERM Workshop. We also preview topics for the 2020 Workshop!

This week Paul and Tal chat with Bill Rowe, Chief Risk Officer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. We discuss OCC’s Risk Appetite Statement, how ERM got started at the OCC and how the OCC is integrating risk and strategy.

This week we chat with Brian Philbin and Wendy Saschenbrecker-Tang from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) about their ERM program. We pick up some lessons learned, discuss how they got started, how they are organized, successes to date and some efforts they have underway with the OECD and agencies such as the IRS!

This week, Paul and Tal chat with the Bob Westbrooks, the Inspector General from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). We discuss the OIG’s approach to its own ERM program as well as efforts made to support the development of ERM at the Corporation.

This week we chat with Lucy Mungle from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP). We discuss OJPs ERM journey, starting with grants and moving into all aspects of the organization!

On this Risk Chat, Paul and Tal chat with Dr. Ron Ross from NIST about upcoming updates to NIST special publications 800-37 and 800-53. We also discuss why cyber security, privacy and the supply chain of technologies are critical areas to examine for an agency’s ERM program.

On this episode, Curtis McNeil from the Architect of the Capitol and LaTaiga Proctor from the Census join us to discuss AFERM’s DACoP!

On this episode, we chat with Vladimir Antikarov, Regional Director of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) for Washington, DC. We discuss how to calculate the costs and benefits of ERM using a real options approach adopted from the finance world. Vlad is the author of the book Real Options, A Practitioner’s Guide and other papers on the application of real options to...

Today we speak with Dr. Karen Hardy from the Department of Commerce. Dr. Hardy, one of the pioneers of Federal ERM, provides us a retrospective of how we thought of Federal ERM 10 years ago, how things evolved over the last 10 years, and where we are today! Dr. Hardy is one of the founding members of AFERM and she has published several texts and research papers on Federal ERM.

Today, Paul chats with Tom Stanton about Strategic Risk. We discuss how Goldman Sachs utilized strategic risk management to navigate through the financial crisis several years back, lessons learned from the Malaysian Development Bank fiasco and why Federal risk managers should consider strategic risk in decision making.

This week Tal and Paul catch up with Yashika Rahaman from the FDA at the AGA PDT in New Orleans. Yashika was there for a panel and took some time to record a podcast with us to discuss FDA’s ERM program!

Join Paul and Tal as we learn all about AFERM’s Cybersecurity COI from Nahla Ivy, Julie Chua and our AFERM President, Tom Brandt!

Join Tal and Paul as they speak with Valerie Lubrano about AFERM’s own Small Agency Community of Practice. We discuss the origins, purpose, membership and activities of the group!

This week we speak with Sim Segal, author of National Risk Management: A Practical ERM Approach for Federal Governments. His paper lays out the benefits of a CRO and ERM program at the national government level — not just in the USA, but for any government around the world.

This week Tal and Paul chat with Larry Koskinen, CRO at HUD. Larry discuses data analytics, HUD’s nationwide risk managers, risk culture and incorporating ERM into strategy, budgeting and performance. Quote of the show: HUD does enterprise risk management, not enterprise list management!

Join us as we speak with Bryan Jones, retired from the USPS OIG and current owner of Strategy First Analytics, about utilizing data analytics programs in conjunction with ERM. Bryan speaks about putting together a data analytics strategy, utilizing the tools agencies already have to make incremental progress and the importance of “decision” analytics.

Join us as we speak with Sarah Lyburg, CFO of Mecklenburg County. We discuss a cyber incident that led to a rethink of how the county defended itself against cyber attacks and the importance of an ERM program.

This episode we chat with Frank Petersen, Cherisse Aquil and Larry Shaw at NASA about their unique risk culture and how they stood up their ERM program.

Join us as we chat with John Basso from the Veteran’s Administration about the VA’s ERM program and how it relates to planning, budgeting, performance, governance, strategy, portfolio analysis and data analytics!

Today we speak with authors of the new book about Federal ERM entitled Public Sector Enterprise Risk Management: Advancing Beyond the Basics. Join us as we speak with Cynthia Vitters, Sean Vineyard and Ken Fletcher about the book, their chapters and chapters contributed by other authors in our Federal ERM community!

On this episode we check in with Jonelle Pianta, CRO at the HUD OIG, to discuss why the OIG decided to start their own ERM program, the unique challenges an OIG faces, audits of ERM programs and why your agency’s OIG may want to consider setting up its own ERM program. Thanks to AGA this week for the use of the AGA podcast studio!

Join us as we chat with Don Kettl, author of Managing Risk, Improving Results: Lessons for Improving Government Management from GAO’s High-Risk List. We discuss the history of the list, root causes and “root solutions,” strategies to stay off the list, and how this is all relevant to your ERM efforts!