Event details
- Date: Thursday, 9 July 2026
- Time: London, UK 16.00
- Location: Online
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Speakers: Michael Rasmussen, GRC20/20 and Keith Ricketts, Clew
Risk and assurance becomes strategic when it runs in the same rhythm as performance.
In too many organisations, strategy lives in one place, performance reporting in another, and risk and assurance sit off to the side, producing activity, not insight. The result is familiar: leadership gets reports, but not a clear line of sight to what matters, what’s drifting, and what needs intervention now.
This webinar shows how leading organisations connect strategy, objectives, risks, controls, assurance activity and performance measures into a single line of sight, the Golden Thread, so leaders can prioritise, intervene early, and track progress over time.
We’ll cover what “good” looks like, where it breaks (siloed tools, taxonomy drift, ownership gaps, spreadsheet reconciliation), and a pragmatic operating model to keep it current without bureaucracy. Clew will then demonstrate how to maintain the thread in one platform, so assurance evidence, actions and metrics stay connected to the objectives they protect.
What you’ll learn
In this webinar, we will cover:
- What the Golden Thread looks like in practice (not theory)
- How to connect objectives → risks → controls → assurance → actions → KPIs
- What “good” looks like for decision-ready, performance-aligned risk & assurance
- Where Golden Threads break most often:
- siloed tools and duplicated data
- taxonomy drift and inconsistent definitions
- ownership gaps and unclear accountability
- spreadsheet reconciliation and reporting latency
- A pragmatic operating model to keep the thread current (without adding bureaucracy)
- How a connected platform keeps evidence, actions and metrics tied to the outcomes they protect
Who this session is for
This webinar is designed for:
- Heads of Risk / ERM leaders
- Assurance leaders (including operational assurance)
- Senior risk & compliance managers responsible for reporting, control confidence, and assurance plans
Why attend?
Attend this session if you want to:
- Make risk & assurance useful to leadership, not just “complete”
- Align assurance work to what the business is trying to achieve (and measure)
- Reduce admin and eliminate reconciliation across spreadsheets and disconnected tools
- Improve control confidence with clearer ownership and linked evidence
- Build reporting that supports early intervention and tracking over time
- Gain insights from Michael Rasmussen, internationally recognised GRC analyst and founder of GRC 20/20, drawing on decades of experience advising organisations on risk and assurance
Can’t attend live?
Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording after the session.
