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• Why is it important for general counsel (GC) to work with and leverage the chief audit executive (CAE)? (1:42)
• Understand how CAEs can provide confidence to risk management through executive committees and particular risk areas.(4:53)
• Understand how CAEs can provide confidence on emerging risk information provided to the board and its committees. (7:33)
• Strategies for how GC can leverage CAEs for integrated risk assessments. (10:38)
• Understand how integrated risk assurance can help the board with increasing overall risk appetite and the role of the CAE. (15:21)
• How can coordinating activities across assurance improve risk management (19:07)
• Ideas for conversation topics for GC and CAEs. (22:05)

With more than half of boards ineffectively overseeing risk, GC should focus on identifying ways to help the board improve. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Gartner analyst Tim Berichon and host Alissa Lugo discuss how GC can partner with the CAE to build confidence around risk management activities, which then aids the board in having better insights on how executive leaders are managing risks.

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About the Guest:

Tim Berichon is a Senior Director Analyst in Gartner’s audit practice. Tim helps Chief Audit Executives on leadership and effectiveness matters. Tim regularly speaks to clients on optimizing business relevance, how best to manage board and senior leadership relationships, enterprise risk management and assurance challenges, and articulating audit services. Prior to joining Gartner, Tim was Director of CAE Engagement and Research at The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA). Prior to the IIA, he held CFO, CAE, ERM, and Forensic Investigation leadership positions at three global publicly listed companies. Tim started his career at PwC.

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• Why is there a heightened focus on risk management now? (2:09)
• What are some tactics general counsel (GC) can use to ensure that emerging risk information presented to the board helps them with their oversight role? (4:40)
• Understand the types of information to include in board reports on emerging risks. (6:54)
• Understand the differences in how enterprise risks and emerging risks are treated and presented to the board. (10:18)
• Key takeaways on how to leverage heads of ERM to enable better risk oversight by the board. (18:38)

Risk management continues to be one of the top concerns of boards. To alleviate this concern, boards must be receiving the right information from the C-suite, a crucial aspect of its ability to fulfill its risk oversight duty. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Garnter advisors Matt Holyes and Kevin Mercado and host Alissa Lugo discuss how general counsel can work better with heads of ERM.

About the Guests:

Kevin Mercado is a Principal Advisor in Gartner’s enterprise risk management practice. Kevin helps heads of enterprise risk management address their most-pressing, forward-looking challenges. Kevin provides timely insights on a range of topics including identifying and managing constantly evolving emerging risks, enhancing the risk response process, and developing risk assessment strategies.

Matt Hoyles is a Senior Principal Advisor for Gartner working with CRO's and ERM leaders on the development of their risk management teams and processes, including how to use risk management for strategic advantage and to drive corporate performance. Matt regularly speaks on launching and maturing the risk function, effective risk governance, and how others are defining, measuring and enhancing risk culture. Matt also leads our Quarterly Emerging risk webinar and regularly speaks to various audiences on recent emerging risk trends and building an effective emerging risk program.

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• Why now is the time to invest in legal tech and solve adoption challenges. (1:55)
• Understand why lawyers avoid technology. (4:56)
• Determine how to make tech hard to avoid for intended users. (9:50)
• Understand how to turn continued tech holdouts into tech adopters. (17:05)
• Immediate actions to improve your legal tech adoption strategies. (23:43)

While most lawyers do understand the potential usefulness and value of using technology to improve their work, general counsel will have to work to overcome reluctance and set clear and real expectations for tech usage. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Gartner advisor Drew Tanenbaum and host Alissa Lugo discuss how general counsel can increase legal technology adoption rates.

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Drew Tanenbaum, a Gartner senior director of advisory, helps general counsel (GC) become more effective organizational and functional leaders. As a trusted advisor to GC, Drew supports them on a range of initiatives, including personal and team strategy setting, improving board effectiveness, developing and managing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies, transforming legal departments, and improving organizational risk management. Previously, Drew worked as in-house counsel at PayPal and Citigroup, and before that he served as an attorney at two large, national law firms.