Session Year: 2026
July 27, 2026
How to Inspire and Support Timely, Risk-Aware Decisions
Many nonprofits deliver support and services that are truly urgent. This session explores ways to inspire and support risk-aware decision making when protracted processes are not possible. Learn from experienced leaders who have worked in challenging and dynamic environments around the world. They’ll share how they approach decision-making that reflects risk awareness and due care without causing undue delay.
July 27, 2026
Risk Maturity: Beyond the Tyranny of Run-On Risk Registers and Hopeless Heat Maps
Many nonprofit teams continue to use increasingly complex spreadsheets to track top risks and produce heat maps for risk reporting. The problem with that approach? As spreadsheets grow from four to fourteen and forty columns, the information they contain becomes more cryptic. Worse, risk leaders spend too much time chasing colleagues to fill every box and too little time on productive risk conversations. Learn how to hop off the hamster wheel and create a practical, goal-focused approach to risk program maturity that will inspire confidence and action.
July 27, 2026
ERM Master Class: Help Your Risk Management Program Take Wing
Author Michael Power says a great enterprise risk management program should take a bird’s-eye view of the organization, addressing risk holistically. But how do you get team members and departments working together to do that, while understanding and delivering on their own risk management responsibilities? Hear from experienced risk champions insights and takeaways from their journeys as nonprofit ERM architects and champions.
July 27, 2026
Risk Help Live: Stump our ED with Your Formidable Risk Dilemmas
Join NRMC’s ED Melanie Herman for an unscripted, fast-paced session featuring your questions and her off the cuff suggested strategies. Bring your thorniest risk challenge—or curiosity about what others are facing—and get insights from a risk leader with more than...
July 27, 2026
Peaks, Valleys, Humility and Humor: Lessons from Risk Leaders
This session features a panel of graduates from NRMC’s risk intensive, the Risk Leadership Certificate Program. Graduates of the program will share what they have learned on their journeys through challenging terrain, including how they dealt with skeptics and detractors...