This course equips you with practical strategies to boost your organization’s resilience by pinpointing, assessing, and minimizing operational risks. You’ll dive into six critical risk areas’from processes and people to technology and compliance’and explore real-world case studies, proven internal controls, and tools to build a strong risk-aware culture. This session was recorded on May 29, 2025, for CalCPA’s Not-for-Profit Organizations Conference.
Learning Objectives
• Identify and categorize operational risks that threaten mission delivery and organizational integrity.
• Apply a structured framework (RISKED) to assess and prioritize risks within their operations.
• Implement effective mitigation strategies and internal controls to build a resilient and responsive organization.
Major Topics
• Defining and understanding operational risk types
• Assessing and prioritizing organizational risk exposure
• Mitigating process, people, and tech risks
• Strengthening compliance and facility risk controls
• Implementing effective internal control strategies
• Applying lessons from real-world case studies
• Fostering a proactive, risk-aware culture
