Risk Management for Intelligence

Intelligence and risk are often treated as separate disciplines.

In reality, they are closely connected.

Both seek to reduce uncertainty, support better decisions, and help organisations navigate increasingly complex environments. Yet many intelligence practitioners have never received formal risk training, while many risk practitioners have never explored how intelligence strengthens effective risk management.

The Risk Management for Intelligence workshop brings these disciplines together.

Grounded in ISO 31000 and professional intelligence tradecraft, the workshop provides participants with a practical framework for understanding uncertainty, assessing risk, and communicating clearer, more defensible judgements supporting organisational decision-making.

Duration: 2 days
Price: $1,200 + GST per participant

Highlights:

  • Apply ISO 31000 risk principles in intelligence environments
  • Distinguish between threats, risks, and opportunities
  • Assess uncertainty and prioritise key risks
  • Develop treatments and build clear risk narratives
  • Integrate risk thinking into planning and reporting

About:

Many organisations use the language of risk every day.

Few use it consistently.

Terms such as risk, threat, hazard, likelihood, consequence, and control are often used interchangeably, creating confusion that ultimately affects the quality of decision-making.

This workshop helps practitioners move beyond terminology and develop a structured understanding of risk, aligning with internationally recognised principles while remaining directly applicable to intelligence practice.

The result is clearer thinking, better communication, and more confident decision support.

What You'll Learn:

When you complete this programme you will be able to:

  1. Understand the Fundamentals of Risk Management
    Describe the key principles, terminology, and frameworks used in risk management for intelligence. Apply ISO 31000 principles and terminology with confidence.
  2. Identify and Assess Risks Effectively
    Apply practical methods to recognise, evaluate, and prioritise risks in intelligence operations. Define clear objectives and assess uncertainty in relation to them.
  3. Integrate Risk Management into Intelligence Processes
    Incorporate risk assessment and mitigation strategies into existing intelligence workflows through the identification, analysis, and evaluation of risks in an intelligence context.
  4. Develop Risk Response Plans
    Develop and assess risk treatments and identify controls Distinguish between inherent, residual, and treated risk and create effective plans to respond to and manage risks in various scenarios.
  5. Communicate Risk Insights Clearly
    Present risk findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner through building risk narratives that support analytical judgments and decision-making.
  6. Apply Ethical and Legal Considerations in Risk Management
    Recognise the ethical and legal aspects of managing risk within intelligence work.

Register Your Interest

Does this development opportunity sound like you? Please register your interest below and one of our team will be in touch to book this in with you and your team. 


Contact us

+64 021 047 3917

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