On Stage
Speaking
Patrick speaks to executive, business and professional audiences about the risks emerging where technology, AI, business complexity and decision-making intersect.
Topics include Business Survivability, Integrated Assurance, AI risk, cyber risk, Decision Debt and Operational Trust. He keynotes industry conferences and association events and works with boards and leadership teams in closed sessions.
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Patrick’s sessions are built around the questions leaders are already confronting, connecting risk, technology and organizational decisions to what happens when the business is tested.
Keynote Topics
Ideas shaped for the audience in the room
Patrick’s sessions draw from his research, writing, executive advisory work and more than three decades of experience. The emphasis and examples are shaped around the audience and the questions that matter to them.
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Business Survivability
How organizations continue operating when assumptions, systems, people or dependencies fail.
Related workBusiness Survivability
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Where AI Risk Really Lives
How AI changes organizational risk through decisions, dependencies and business processes, often beyond the technology itself.
Related workAI and Organizational Risk
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Decision Debt
How reasonable decisions accumulate assumptions and constraints that gradually make the organization harder to operate and adapt.
Related workDecision Debt
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Integrated Assurance
How organizations connect governance, architecture, operations, risk and evidence to develop a clearer understanding of whether the business can rely on what it believes.
Related workIntegrated Assurance (book)Relevant Impact (book)
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Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance
What insurance applications, underwriting and coverage reveal about how well an organization understands the risk it is transferring.
Related workCan We Insure This? (book)
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Operational Trust
What happens when the assumptions leaders make about controls, systems, people and vendors are tested under real operating conditions.
Related workOperational Trust
Audiences
Built for rooms where decisions matter.
Sessions can be shaped for executive leadership, boards, industry conferences and professional audiences depending on the decisions and risks they are confronting.
- Board and director briefings
- Executive leadership meetings and offsites
- Industry association conferences
- Private equity and investor events
- Professional association chapters and summits
- Client and partner executive programs
Experience behind the conversation
Patrick brings more than 30 years of experience across executive leadership, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, operations, governance and risk. His speaking draws on that experience as well as his work as an author and advisor to organizations navigating disruption, complexity and technological change.
About PatrickTell Patrick about the audience and the outcome you need, and he will shape the session around it.