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A Good Governance Academy Journal webinar

Relevant
Impact.
The Governance Decisions That Determine Business Survivability

Human judgement.
Decisions that keep a business alive.

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Date
Format
Online Journal webinar
Start time
To be confirmed

The conversation

For people.
By people.
About the decisions
that matter.

Survivability begins
before disruption.

Everyday decisions shape an organisation’s ability to adapt, recover and keep creating value.

Those choices can build resilience. They can also increase dependencies, narrow options and make adaptation harder—long before a crisis arrives.

Join Patrick M. Hayes and Prof. Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu to explore how governance connects technology, operations, finance and risk to the continuing life of a business.

Inside the discussion

Five perspectives.
One connected
organisation.

Explore the ideas at the heart
of this conversation.

01Better decisions

Governance reaches beyond oversight, compliance and reporting. Its practical purpose is to help people make better decisions for the organisation.

02How vulnerability accumulates

Everyday choices can gradually increase dependencies, reduce options and limit the ability to adapt. Recognising those connections makes vulnerability easier to understand.

03A connected organisation

Business survivability brings technology, operations, finance, risk and resilience into one discussion. Decisions in each area influence what becomes possible elsewhere.

04Integrated Assurance in practice

Integrated Assurance turns this connected thinking into an operating model, helping leaders understand how decisions in one part of an organisation affect the whole.

05Leadership when disruption arrives

When conditions change, can the organisation adapt, recover and continue creating value? That is the practical test of the decisions made beforehand.

People behind the conversation

Two perspectives.
A shared conversation.

Experience, insight and human judgement
at the centre of governance.

Patrick M. Hayes

Guest speaker

Patrick M. Hayes (LinkedIn, opens in a new tab)

Cybersecurity and risk strategist
Author and speaker

Patrick M. Hayes brings three decades of experience across cybersecurity, technology and risk. His work explores how board and executive decisions shape organisational resilience, insurability and business survivability.

He is the author of Relevant Impact, Can We Insure This?, and Integrated Assurance: Unified Risk Strategy.

Prof. Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu

Your host

Prof. Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu (LinkedIn, opens in a new tab)

Editor-in-Chief
Advances in Corporate Governance Journal

Sezer is an Professor of Finance at Izmir Bakırçay University and Visiting Professor at UNISA.

Her interests span corporate governance, risk management, financial markets, sustainable finance, forensic accounting, ethics and auditing.

Who should join

For those making
the decisions.

A conversation for people responsible for an organisation’s future.

  • Board members and executives
  • Governance and risk professionals
  • Assurance leaders and internal auditors
  • Practitioners shaping organisational resilience

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pulse going.

Relevant Impact: The Governance Decisions That Determine Business Survivability

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