Create operational resilience amid growing risks and disruption

This session explores how strategic risk differs fundamentally from operational risk and why understanding this distinction is critical for effective governance and decision-making.

Drawing on the COSO Enterprise Risk Management framework and the fundamentals of Third Wave Strategy, the webinar will guide participants through the complexities of strategic uncertainty, adaptive responses, and deliberate disruption as a way to challenge the status quo and evolve thinking and behaviours to achieve better future outcomes. It highlights how potential disruptions to business and uncertainties in the external environment can be anticipated, and organisations can still flourish despite turbulent and/or challenging circumstances.

Presented by Dr Paul Hunter and Professor Stuart Orr, this session will unpack the external threats, internal misalignments (such as leadership tensions and siloed risk management), and emerging opportunities that shape strategic resilience in a volatile operating environment. 

Content is tailored to give relevant VET examples and support RTOs to know more about effective risk identification, assessment and response - all of which are critical components of effective governance and strategic adaptability.


This session is applicable to:

  • Business owners
  • VET leaders
  • Managers
  • CEOs
  • Independent contractors, and 
  • Anyone else interested in knowing about the principles and practice of business strategy.


Feel free to share this session with colleagues who may also benefit from knowing more about finding alignment between strategy and strategic risk.

Complimentary registration is offered for the live event. It introduces us to the mindset for strategic thinking and concepts of strategy planning upon which the 'Strategic Concepts' learning programs are based.

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Session Presenters

Dr Paul HunterPaul is a professional nudger (someone who uses behavioral psychology to influence people's decisions and behaviours by gently guiding them to act in their own best interest), a professional management consultant, author, teacher and researcher. He applies knowledge obtained from independent research, authoring activities and invention of future focused content to advise CEOs and other C Suite executives on strategy, leadership, organisational structuring and strategic change.

Paul has authored four business strategy books and has qualifications in Business, up to a Doctorate of Business Administration. Paul ensures change is realised by applying dynamic ways of thinking, formulating and implementing strategy; challenging wicked strategic problems, breaking tradition or obliterating content lying dormant in the ‘too hard’ basket.

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Professor Stuart Orr

Stuart has extensive experience in business performance improvement, having worked for companies such as Asea Brown Bovari, run a successful management consulting business and consulted for many of Australia's largest businesses. 

He has also had a successful international career as a Professor in Strategic Management and as a member of a number of international and domestic boards, including President of one of Australia's largest NGOs. 

Stuart is regularly interviewed for articles in international magazines such as Forbes and Bloomberg and speaks on international and domestic radio and television programs on issues of domestic and international strategy.

 Stuart has published extensively – some of his recent books are The Corporation of the Future (2022), Strategic Management, Essentials Edition (2021) and Innovation and Internationalisation: Successful SMEs’ Ventures into China (2019).