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• Learn how regulatory intelligence presents strategic opportunities and potential competitive advantages. (3:14)
• Strategies for how legal leaders can clarify the business case for regulatory intelligence programs. (10:45)
• Understand how to prioritize efforts in developing regulatory intelligence programs. (18:06)
• Understand the various tools that are available in building regulatory intelligence programs. (22:46)
• Learn where to start building a regulatory intelligence program. (27:06)

The global surge in complex regulations has strained internal legal and compliance departments, necessitating robust processes to manage these changes effectively. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Gartner advisor Daniel Hebda and host Alissa Lugo discuss how general counsel (GC) can build regulatory intelligence programs to meet compliance obligations and identify strategic opportunities for potential competitive advantages.

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Daniel Hebda is a Senior Director Advisor in Gartner’s legal and compliance practice. Daniel helps legal and compliance leaders understand, tailor, and implement best practices in risk management. Daniel regularly speaks to clients on selecting a catalog of risks that represents their risk universe, surveying organizational stakeholders who can identify the likelihood and impact of top risks, developing and implementing actionable risk appetites, matching resources with risk priorities, and communicating effectively and clearly about risk strategy and mitigation plans. Before Gartner, Daniel practiced law and managed staff in the areas of civil litigation (plaintiff and defense), employment law, contracts, nonprofit law, and corporate governance.

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• Why is it important for general counsel (GC) to work with and leverage the chief audit executive (CAE)? (1:42)
• Understand how CAEs can provide confidence to risk management through executive committees and particular risk areas.(4:53)
• Understand how CAEs can provide confidence on emerging risk information provided to the board and its committees. (7:33)
• Strategies for how GC can leverage CAEs for integrated risk assessments. (10:38)
• Understand how integrated risk assurance can help the board with increasing overall risk appetite and the role of the CAE. (15:21)
• How can coordinating activities across assurance improve risk management (19:07)
• Ideas for conversation topics for GC and CAEs. (22:05)

With more than half of boards ineffectively overseeing risk, GC should focus on identifying ways to help the board improve. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Gartner analyst Tim Berichon and host Alissa Lugo discuss how GC can partner with the CAE to build confidence around risk management activities, which then aids the board in having better insights on how executive leaders are managing risks.

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About the Guest:

Tim Berichon is a Senior Director Analyst in Gartner’s audit practice. Tim helps Chief Audit Executives on leadership and effectiveness matters. Tim regularly speaks to clients on optimizing business relevance, how best to manage board and senior leadership relationships, enterprise risk management and assurance challenges, and articulating audit services. Prior to joining Gartner, Tim was Director of CAE Engagement and Research at The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA). Prior to the IIA, he held CFO, CAE, ERM, and Forensic Investigation leadership positions at three global publicly listed companies. Tim started his career at PwC.

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• Why is there a heightened focus on risk management now? (2:09)
• What are some tactics general counsel (GC) can use to ensure that emerging risk information presented to the board helps them with their oversight role? (4:40)
• Understand the types of information to include in board reports on emerging risks. (6:54)
• Understand the differences in how enterprise risks and emerging risks are treated and presented to the board. (10:18)
• Key takeaways on how to leverage heads of ERM to enable better risk oversight by the board. (18:38)

Risk management continues to be one of the top concerns of boards. To alleviate this concern, boards must be receiving the right information from the C-suite, a crucial aspect of its ability to fulfill its risk oversight duty. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Garnter advisors Matt Holyes and Kevin Mercado and host Alissa Lugo discuss how general counsel can work better with heads of ERM.

About the Guests:

Kevin Mercado is a Principal Advisor in Gartner’s enterprise risk management practice. Kevin helps heads of enterprise risk management address their most-pressing, forward-looking challenges. Kevin provides timely insights on a range of topics including identifying and managing constantly evolving emerging risks, enhancing the risk response process, and developing risk assessment strategies.

Matt Hoyles is a Senior Principal Advisor for Gartner working with CRO's and ERM leaders on the development of their risk management teams and processes, including how to use risk management for strategic advantage and to drive corporate performance. Matt regularly speaks on launching and maturing the risk function, effective risk governance, and how others are defining, measuring and enhancing risk culture. Matt also leads our Quarterly Emerging risk webinar and regularly speaks to various audiences on recent emerging risk trends and building an effective emerging risk program.