Session Year: 2026
July 27, 2026
Safety Snacks: Bite-Sized Solutions for Big Risk Challenges
Designed for risk management beginners, this session provides practical, easy-to-apply strategies for turning incident reports and facility usage data into meaningful risk management tools. Participants will learn how to identify trends, assess risk exposure, and develop facility risk profiles that support proactive decision-making and safety planning. Additional "safety snacks" will offer quick, actionable insights on topics such as OSHA, child abuse prevention, and insurance considerations.
July 27, 2026
Getting Ahead of the Crisis: Proactive Emergency Preparedness
This workshop explores the various emergency incidents that cause significant disruption and safety concerns for nonprofit organizations, including facility damage, workplace violence, health crises, and natural disasters. Using real examples from her time leading crisis response across the 31 offices at the Center for Employment Opportunities, participants will walk through the critical risk and compliance considerations for each scenario, such as national OSHA requirements, state-specific regulations, and insurance impacts. Finally, participants will receive actionable templates and tools to develop comprehensive, proactive plans that ensure risk managers are fully equipped before a crisis occurs.
July 27, 2026
The Solo Act: Risk Management for a Team of One
Running risk management alone at a nonprofit means wearing every hat—and making sure none of them catch fire. This session shares practical tips, tools, and frameworks for the solo risk professional who needs to assess, communicate, and manage organizational risk without a team behind them. Walk away with a prioritization approach, a stakeholder communication strategy, and a toolkit built for the reality of doing more with less.
July 27, 2026
Fraud Risk Management in the Age of AI
Some fraud schemes and techniques are as old as time. Others appeared moments ago as scammers discover new ways to employ AI capabilities in their quest. Learn practical approaches and actions that can help nonprofits strengthen fraud detection and deter...
July 27, 2026
How to Handle Hard Conversations
Unresolved workplace conflicts can gain momentum, drain productivity, and expose organizations to potential legal, financial, and reputational risks. Discover tools you can use to handle difficult workplace conversations, focusing on conflict resolution, communication strategies, and emotional intelligence.
July 27, 2026
Using Humor to Build Risk Engagement and Insight
Humor can relieve stress, brings people closer together, and even be persuasive. Explore how to use humor to reduce resistance and increase engagement in risk communication. Learn what types, tips, and examples of humor to apply in different situations to...
July 27, 2026
How to Stay Cognitively Engaged While Using AI
Have you ever had the feeling when using AI for a routine task that it was just too easy? Alarmingly frictionless? Congratulations! That’s your very human brain reminding you that while you may not see the risks of AI in every standard query, they’re always present. Those risks include losing key human skills and zoning out when you should be making important human judgment calls. Join us for learning and hands-on practice to work with AI in an engaged, risk-aware way.
July 27, 2026
Build (or Enhance) a Nonprofit AI Policy
Using artificial intelligence thoughtfully can help your team members spend more time on high-impact work. But AI presents safety, security, environmental, and ethical risks to nonprofit teams and constituents. Learn how to build an AI policy, or enhance the policy you have, to support your team’s decisions on AI use as your needs and the technology evolve.
July 27, 2026
Translating Security Risks into Mission Impacts
This session will break down how to map technical security gaps to specific mission objectives, aligning security initiatives with organizational goals. We will also cover how to build a narrative that resonates with the less tech-oriented team members in your nonprofit. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of how to improve your organization’s technical security and how that will benefit your work in the community.
July 27, 2026
Nonprofit Risk Jeopardy!
This engaging workshop in the spirit of the popular TV show "Jeopardy!" will equip risk management newbies with the foundational knowledge to be effective in their roles—and spur deeper curiosity. Hosted by nonprofit insurance broker Scott Konrad and featuring three risk champions as contestants, this session—a new and improved reprise of Konrad's game at the 2016 Risk Summit—will prove that risk and insurance can be fun.