Branded, custom risk resources naturally nest with your organizational culture to help your team use a risk-aware frame to keep your mission moving forward.
Starting at $2,500 (plus actual economy travel expenses for in-person delivery)
Professionally delivered, custom risk training and keynotes to empower and excite your nonprofit!
NRMC’s executive director, Melanie Lockwood Herman and lead consultant Rachel Sams are available to deliver custom keynote presentations, workshops, seminars, webinars and other training programs.
How is training or a speaking engagement with NRMC different? We tailor each presentation or custom workshop to suit the audience and interests of our clients. During our initial information gathering we’ll talk with you about your expectations, what hot button risks are on your mind, and learn about priority risk management challenges your team or audience faces. Our process includes a review of your website, event marketing materials, and anything else we can find to learn more about your mission and your most pressing risks. The NRMC team always arrives on-site early to take in the atmosphere of the event and tune into issues that your audience cares about.
We also are skilled facilitators and include hands-on activities in many of our workshops. This allows our participants to learn from one another and practice one or more techniques discussed in a workshop. Every aspect of your workshop will be customized to address the concerns, backgrounds and/or experience-level of the audience. And we’re also available to explore new topics and develop brand-new material for an upcoming conference, staff training, or board education session.
Here’s a sample of our favorite workshop topics:
View a list of our recent speaking engagements here.
What you need to know to get started for any speaking engagement or custom training.
RESPECT: Harassment Prevention and Risk Management
Sexual harassment prevention and risk management for nonprofits and associations
People are speaking up and out about sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment. Now is the time to make sure your organization is on solid ground. RESPECT™ brings risk management, crisis communications and behavioral health expertise together to guide your organization in setting sound policies and implementing appropriate employee, volunteer and board training. Fundamental to RESPECT™ is a vulnerabilities-review specific to your organization, as well as the development of thoughtful crisis communications messaging and an incident and crisis response plan. Solidifying a culture of respect for all—and being prepared—put you and your mission on solid ground.
Risk Appetite Workshop & Coaching
“How can we empower team members across our organization to comfortably make decisions that align with our risk appetite?” This is the question that nonprofit leaders and board members ask when it’s time to develop and apply risk appetite.
Why Risk Appetite?
Setting your nonprofit’s risk appetite will guide an organization-wide approach to risk-taking that aligns with your values and aims to advance your nonprofit’s mission. Ultimately, staff leadership and the board must develop a shared vision for appropriate risk-taking and communicate that vision to staff members. Staff across the organization can then interpret and apply the organization’s risk appetite whenever they make decisions or vet opportunities to take risk.
When nonprofit leaders fail to address risk appetite, team members are more likely to engage in misaligned decision-making, which can threaten progress toward strategic objectives.
Living by your organization’s risk appetite is a form of high-level mission stewardship, with goals including:
The NRMC team can facilitate the development of risk appetite resources for your organization, through a highly interactive workshop for staff leaders and board members. You’ll explore questions like: “are we taking the appropriate level and type of risk across the organization to advance our objectives?” This holistic risk mindset invites a compelling, birds-eye view of strategic risks and opportunities, compared to the age-old risk management question: “is a particular risk being managed as desired?”
Our risk appetite workshop (~half-day session) includes:
Following the risk appetite workshop, the NRMC team will provide coaching to you as you communicate your risk appetite to staff organization-wide. Coaching includes:
Fee: $11,000-$19,800 (depending on project scope) plus actual economy travel expenses for any in-person meetings and training requested by the client.
Note: As part of our educational mission, we offer a very limited slate of pro bono presentations each year. Please fill out the inquiry form and note in the comments that you are requesting a pro bono presentation. If we cannot accommodate you, we will add you to the waitlist for next year.
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“The board and staff of the Prince George’s Child Resource Center are extremely pleased with the results of the risk assessment conducted by the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. A thorough scan revealed that while we are a well run organization, we had risks that we never imagined. We are grateful to know that we have now minimized our organizational risks and we recommend the Center to other nonprofits.”