Risk is Our Business

In this latest episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen connects via subspace (okay… a Zoom call) with Marc Leipoldt, CEO of Global Risk Advisory Services. Marc and Michael take a candid look at the state of operational risk management in financial services today. Has it become little more than a Basel-born compliance checkbox? Or can it truly guide strategic decision-making and...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes aboard Mark Heywood, writer, presenter, creative director, novelist, screenwriter, and former global crisis-management leader, for a conversation that travels well beyond the neutral zone of traditional risk models. Together, they explore why risk and resilience can’t be governed by left-brain logic alone, and why the futu...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes aboard Reshad Alam, Vice President of Information Systems Security at Regal Rexnord, for a conversation about navigating risk at enterprise scale, and why the greatest threat is often the one you can’t see coming. Reshad describes the sheer scope of Regal Rexnord’s global footprint, and with it, the vast digital surface he...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen welcomes Richard Chambers, Senior Advisor at AuditBoard and one of the most influential voices in internal audit and assurance, to discuss how risk, audit, and compliance have evolved in a decade defined by unprecedented velocity and volatility. Richard reflects on the shifting mindset across GRC—from static frameworks and predicta...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Ana Valdez Rodgers, VP of Internal Audit, and Melissa Pici, Global Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance, of Syniverse to talk about what really keeps GRC leaders up at night. They dive into how GRC isn’t about ticking boxes but about aligning governance, risk, and compliance with the organization’s purpose and...

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...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Ernest Legrand, CEO, technologist, and author of Guardians of Uncertainty: The Making of Influential Risk Managers in the Modern World, to explore what it really means to lead through volatility. Drawing on lessons from his book and decades of experience across insurance, AI, and geospatial technology, Ernest discusses...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Richard Anderson, Chair, Non-Executive Director, and host of The Risk Appetite Podcast, to explore what separates bad risk management from good, and why so many organizations still get it wrong. Together they chart the difference between process-driven compliance and purpose-driven risk. Bad risk management, they argue...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Renee Murphy, independent industry analyst, storyteller, and one of the most recognizable voices in GRC, to tackle one of the most misunderstood dimensions of risk: reputation. Renee explains why reputational risk remains so elusive for many organizations, and why ERM frameworks often have metrics for finance and opera...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Amir Ramezanpour, Vice President of Global Risk Technology and Intelligence, and Global Risk Transformation Office at Manulife, to explore how risk must be defined, framed, and operationalized in a world of constant unpredictability. Michael and Amir both lean on ISO 31000’s central principle, risk as the effect of unc...

In this warp-speed episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen connects across the comms with Akira Muranaka, GRC/IRM/ESG Technology Manager and global risk assurance veteran, to explore how enterprises can reimagine GRC as a driver of objectives rather than a compliance checkbox. Akira explains why the future of risk management depends on moving away from ritualistic controls and t...

In this bridge-level episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Tayler Kuhn, Director of Internal Audit, IT, and Jeanne Cline, Chief Audit Executive at StoneX Group Inc., to explore the evolving role of internal audit in the GRC galaxy. Their discussion begins with how internal audit has changed over the years, from back-office compliance to a strategic function collab...

In this transmission of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen connects across the comms with Ayoub Fandi, Security Assurance Automation Team Lead at GitLab and founder of the GRC Engineer Podcast and Newsletter, for a deep dive into what might be the next frontier of governance, risk, and compliance: GRC engineering. Ayoub explains what GRC engineering is, what it does, and the value it...

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 w...

In this star-mapping episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Tony Martin-Vegue, risk consultant, advisor, and author of the upcoming book Heatmaps to Histograms: A Practical Guide to Cyber Risk Quantification. With 25 years navigating the galaxy of cyber risk, Tony has guided enterprises from the gravitational pull of checklists and color-coded charts into the warp...

In this mission-critical episode of Risk Is Our Business, host Michael Rasmussen opens the comms with Hardik Mehta, Global Head of Risk and Regulatory Compliance at JPMorgan Chase. With two decades of experience across Uber, Microsoft, and global advisory firms, Hardik has charted risk programs that span continents, cloud migrations, and regulatory galaxies. Their conversation starts with what kee...

In this galaxy-spanning episode of Risk Is Our Business, Captain Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Todd Fitzgerald, former Fortune 500 CISO, cybersecurity hall-of-famer, and #1 best-selling author of CISO Compass. With over 25 years navigating the outer reaches of information security, Todd has seen the CISO role evolve from the days of dial-up to today’s warp-speed threat environment. Their mission...

In this transmission of Risk Is Our Business, host Michael Rasmussen connects over comms with Tim Leech, pioneer of Objective Centric Risk and Uncertainty Management (#OCRUM), longtime board advisor, and someone who’s spent decades trying to rescue enterprise risk from the black hole of checkbox compliance. Recorded over a long-distance call (no transporters this time), this episode dives straight...

In this starlog entry of Risk Is Our Business, recorded live at the Risk-In Conference in Zurich, Captain Michael Rasmussen sits down with Pascal Busch, Global Head of ERM & BCM at Acino and creator of VirtueSpark, for a deep-space transmission on the future of enterprise risk. What keeps a seasoned risk commander up at night? Pascal opens up about the unknown anomalies in the system, such as...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Michael Rasmussen welcomes Stefan Gershater, Head of Risk and Governance at the Co-op, for a bold and unflinching conversation that challenges the very foundations of modern risk management. Broadcasting from the front lines of strategic uncertainty, Stefan shares insights from his forthcoming book, a deep critique of the risk orthodoxy shaped by accounting...

Recorded live at Corporate Risk Minds 2025 in Berlin, this episode of Risk Is Our Business features a conversation with Florian Worm—risk technologist, modeling expert, and one of the sharpest minds charting the next frontier in enterprise risk. Florian joins Michael Rasmussen on the bridge to explore the processes and paradigms reshaping risk management in a world where volatility is no longer an...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Michael Rasmussen charts a course with Klaus Jaeck and Daniel Cassel of Horváth to explore the next frontier in enterprise risk management, where resilience is just the baseline, and business confidence is the true objective. Recorded at Corporate Risk Minds 2025 in Berlin, Klaus and Daniel offer a sharp perspective on how risk management is evolving across...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Michael Rasmussen beams into EY Germany to speak with Patrick Risch and Benjamin Lüders, two senior officers on the frontier of governance, risk, and compliance transformation. Together, they explore how to navigate the multidimensional challenges of orchestrating GRC across systems, silos, and starships, otherwise known as modern enterprises. Their mission...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Michael Rasmussen beams up Graeme Keith, mathematician, strategist, and CEO of Stochastic ApS, for a charged discussion on the fundamental divide between Risk Management 1 and Risk Management 2. Spoiler alert: most organizations are stuck in RM1, clinging to risk registers, risk appetite statements, and heatmaps that do little more than appease auditors. Bu...

In this episode of Risk Is Our Business, Michael Rasmussen beams aboard Kristina Wiese Tranberg, ESG compliance leader, AI ambassador, and creator of the GRC board game GRC Master, for a lively discussion on making governance, risk, and compliance not only effective, but engaging. With more than two decades of experience steering internal control transformations and operationalizing ESG strategy,...