Risk Leader – 2-Day Professional Development Program

Modern leadership starts with understanding risk

📍 Virtual Instructor - online via Zoom

📅 2 full days - 18–19 September 2025

🕘 9:00am – 4:00pm each day

👥 Spaces are limited

About the Program

Risk Leader is a 2-day professional development program designed to equip today’s leaders with the skills, mindset, and frameworks to confidently lead in a risk-driven world.

Whether managing teams, operations, projects, or business units, leaders at all levels are expected to understand and manage risk. This course provides the essential capabilities required to identify uncertainty, assess impacts, and respond with accountability.

Risk is no longer just the job of WHS or compliance teams. This program gives leaders the practical tools to make decisions under pressure, fulfil their duties as Officers and Managers under the WHS Act, and contribute to broader organisational resilience.

You’ll walk away with a stronger understanding of operational risk, WHS risk, compliance exposure, and governance expectations, along with the leadership behaviours and tools to manage them.

This is a must-have course for any organisation serious about improving performance, reducing surprises, and developing modern leaders.

What You'll Learn

• What it means to be a leader of risk - not just a manager of tasks

• How to identify and assess operational, WHS, compliance, and reputational risks

• The obligations of Officers and Managers under WHS legislation

• Practical decision-making under uncertainty

• Leading with accountability, clarity, and credibility

• Aligning frontline risk actions with strategic objectives

• Responding to incidents, system failures, and stakeholder scrutiny

• Building a risk-informed team culture

Who Should Attend

• Frontline leaders and site supervisors

• Operations and department managers

• Business owners and senior leaders

• Project leads and delivery managers

• Anyone stepping into a leadership role or looking to strengthen their ability to lead risk

Relevant Industries

This program is highly relevant across industries including:

• Mining

• Construction

• Manufacturing

• Transport and logistics

• Local, state, and federal government

• Aged care and disability services

• Childcare and education providers

• Civil infrastructure and utilities

• Facilities management

• Agriculture and food production

• Sole traders and franchise operators

• Any high-risk or compliance-regulated environment

Inclusions

• Workbook and training materials

• Leadership tools, risk prompts and decision frameworks

• Certificate of Completion (accredited by SRA Global)

• Tea, coffee, morning tea and lunch is provided

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites. This course is ideal for current and aspiring leaders across all industries, from mining to aged care, government to construction, and everything in between.

Limited Spaces

This course has a limited number of participants.

Multiple Registrations

If you have multiple leaders in your business wanting to register, please select "manual payment" at checkout and an invoice will be issued. Please contact us for group rates.

Risk Leader Program Dates and Locations

• Programs are running regularly throughout 2025 - check website for dates.

• If you have 6 or more participants in your organisation and would like this course delivered in-house, we can come to you. Please contact us to make arrangements.