Geopolitical risk for leaders
About the course
New course and format - 4 hours of training over two days
With geopolitical events impacting everything from supply chains and funding costs to customer behaviour and operational resilience, organisations must understand and manage the implications for investment decisions, risk profiles and more.
This course will equip participants with the tools to move from awareness to action by assessing geopolitical exposures, evaluating vulnerabilities and identifying potential consequences across the organisation.
Sessions will explore the forces reshaping the global environment, including the weaponisation of trade, finance and technology, and the intersection between geopolitics and regulation, while demonstrating how organisations can effectively embed geopolitical considerations into enterprise risk management and strategic planning.
Real-world case studies will analyse corporate impact, specifically discussing geopolitics as an “upstream risk,” and prepare participants to reshape their current oversight framework by understanding strategies for risk mitigation and the expectations of regulators, investors and other stakeholders.
Learning objectives
• Understand major geopolitical trends and their implications
• Evaluate direct and indirect consequences and their impact on your organisation
• Strengthen governance and board oversight of geopolitical risk
• Develop a framework that supports ongoing monitoring and decision-making
• Integrate risk mitigation and resilience strategies
• Adapt board oversight techniques and identify challenges
Who should attend
• Chief risk officer
• Head of enterprise risk management
• Geopolitical risk manager
• Emerging risk manager
• Operational risk manager
• Non-financial risk manager
• Compliance
• Legal
• Treasury and finance
• Operational resilience
• Risk management
• ICAAP/ILAAP
Agenda
Tutors
Derek Leatherdale
Sibylline Ltd
Senior geopolitical risk adviser
Derek is a senior geopolitical risk adviser with over 20 years of experience in the industry. His past roles include working at HSBC, where he set up the geopolitical risk function and led public policy campaigns for the bank’s government affairs team, and he spent time with the UK government. Derek is the co-author of ‘The Extra G - ESG Squared: principles-based guidance for geopolitical risk oversight and its integration with ESG issues for boards, risk committees and risk functions’
Registration
September 9–10, 2026
Online
13:30 BST
$2000
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Accreditation
This course is CPD (Continued Professional Development) accredited. One credit is awarded for every hour of learning at the event.
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