Gerry Zack
CEO, Risk Trek, LLC
Gerry Zack brings decades of experience to each challenge. Further, he can call on his global network of experts to ensure client get the essential expertise where and when it’s needed. Services are available globally. Gerry has worked in 25 countries and has extensive experience providing services in each of the following areas: compliance, fraud, audit and enterprise risk management.
Sessions
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.
Read MorePrivacy Considerations in Fraud Risk Management
Data privacy is a significant risk in its own right. But fraud risk management and privacy have an unusual relationship. Many of the techniques used to manage fraud risk and investigate fraud come with considerable privacy considerations, both legal and ethical. In this session, we’ll utilize several scenarios as a basis for discussing privacy issues […]
Read MoreRisk, Compliance, Ethics and Internal Audit: Disparate Functions or Members of the Same Team?
Leaders from growing, complex nonprofits often encounter a similar ponderous question: how to stand up risk, compliance, ethics, and sometimes IA without breaking the bank or creating warring fiefdoms. This workshop explores potential synchronicities and tensions between the goals and activities of these functions. Attend this session to learn how and when it makes sense […]
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