This Week on Aevitium: Are You Building Change Resilience or Just Managing Incidents?
Julien Haye
Transforming Risk into Opportunity—Strategic Risk Leader | Advisor | Speaker | Author | Chair, NED, & Trustee
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Featured Article: Change Management Risk Assessment Framework | A Step-by-Step Guide for Strategic Execution
“Change risk is a reflection of what the organisation can truly absorb. It reveals how aligned the strategy is, how ready the culture is, and whether leadership is willing to make hard choices before momentum takes over.” — Julien Haye
Hello everyone,
Happy Monday. I hope your week is off to a purposeful and focused start.
Last week, we explored The Four Stages of Psychological Safety in Risk Management, using Timothy R. Clark’s model to examine how psychological safety shapes escalation, ownership, and challenge in risk teams. From inclusion to governance, we looked at how silence, or the lack of it, can make or break decision-making under pressure.
This week, I’m returning to a topic I first explored in 2023 and have now significantly refreshed: Change Management Risk Assessment.
In the updated article, Change Management Risk Assessment Framework: A Step-by-Step Guide for Strategic Execution, I examine how fragmented approaches to change risk continue to drive strategic and operational failures and what we can do to change that.
If your risk or resilience teams are grappling with how to manage the real impact of change, this guide offers a structured path forward.
I’d love to hear how you’re embedding change risk into your wider frameworks. What challenges do you see in practice?
Wishing you a week of proactive insight and aligned execution,
Best, Julien
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🧭 Is your change portfolio building resilience or quietly compounding risk?
Our Operational Resilience Assessment helps you evaluate whether your change initiatives, risk governance, and capacity planning are aligned with strategic goals and regulatory expectations. If you're leading transformation or oversight, this is where clarity begins.
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Strategic Resources & Insights:
1️⃣ New insights on the Three Lines Model and Governance: 43% say the Second Line feels most disconnected. A new diagnostic is in development to uncover where silos form and how they erode trust across the Three Lines.
2️⃣ Book Update: The Risk Within is now available! New poll results show trust and leadership behaviour are the most influential human factors shaping governance. The book explores how to build alignment and challenge through psychological safety.
3️⃣ RiskMasters Podcast: This week, Brenda Boultwood joins to discuss board leadership, AI, and the future of strategic governance.
4️⃣ Upcoming Events & Webinars: From ICAAP and operational resilience to new trainings on Basel IV and crisis management—see what’s ahead.
5️⃣ Curated Articles: Learn how to manage change without improvisation, build resilience into your programmes, and avoid blind spots exposed by incidents like the CrowdStrike outage.
📩 Stay ahead of the curve—scroll below to explore these resources and opportunities.
1️⃣ Governance Gaps: Where Does Disconnection Run Deepest in Governance?
Cultural silos are not just structural. They reflect deeper breaks in trust and understanding across the Three Lines. Our latest poll shows that 43% of respondents believe the Second Line, covering risk and compliance, feels the most misunderstood or isolated.
📍 43% said the Second Line feels most isolated
📍 34% pointed to the Third Line (audit)
📍 16% identified the First Line (business or operations)
📍 7% said none or not applicable
What This Tells Us
These responses suggest that oversight teams often lack visibility and influence. When risk and audit functions feel disconnected, and the First Line sees governance as an obstacle, alignment suffers.
Fixing this is not just about roles or reporting lines. It takes clear expectations, shared outcomes, and leadership that models collaboration and trust. A diagnostic is now in development to help organisations understand where silos are forming, how they impact decisions, and what to change.
If you’re interested in improving collaboration across your Three Lines, now is the time to take part (LAST CALL)
ASK TO JOIN THE PILOT - 🔗 https://www.aevitium.com/contact
📊 Ongoing Poll: How Often Is Vendor Risk Reviewed?
Knowing when to act depends on what you track. But too often, vendor risk is reviewed only after something goes wrong. Our latest poll explores shows that 70% of respondents assess third-party risk for their most critical suppliers only on an ad-hoc basis.
2️⃣ Inside “The Risk Within”: Human Factors in Governance – What Really Drives Alignment?
Our recent poll asked: How do human factors influence governance in your organisation?
Here’s what the results revealed from 149 participants:
✔️ 36% said building trust is the most critical influence
✔️ 30% pointed to leadership focus on human factors
✔️ 18% highlighted improving risk practices
✔️ 16% chose aligning frameworks to culture and people
These insights reinforce a central theme in The Risk Within: effective governance doesn’t just depend on structure. It also depends on trust, alignment, and behaviour.
📖 What You’ll Take Away:
• Why trust is the foundation of good governance
• How leadership behaviour shapes decision-making and challenge
• What it takes to make governance feel real—not just procedural
• How to translate cultural insight into governance outcomes
💬 What readers are saying about The Risk Within
“Provides useful models that are both insightful and applicable.” — @Søren Agergaard Andersen, CRO
“A much-needed perspective on behavioral risk.” — Michele Wucker, author of The Gray Rhino
"Julien Haye doesn’t merely analyze control and risk management functions: he shakes them up to reinvent them as catalysts of strategic performance.” — Julien Valletoux, CRO & Board Member, Crédit Immobilier de France
If you’ve ever sensed risk isn’t just about systems, but also about people not speaking up; you’re not alone. This book is for you.
"I don’t think risk management is about compliance anymore. I think it’s about enabling a business and enabling a strategy." – Brenda Boultwood
3️⃣ RiskMasters: The CPD Risk Management Podcast
In this CPD-accredited episode of RiskMasters, host Julien Haye welcomes Brenda Boultwood, a seasoned Chief Risk Officer (CRO), economist, board advisor, and tech executive, to explore the evolving nature of risk leadership across industries and geographies. Brenda brings a unique perspective from her work across finance, energy, academia, the IMF, and Silicon Valley.
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4️⃣ Upcoming Events & Webinars
Join us for upcoming live events that tackle today’s real-world challenges in risk, compliance, and leadership. We added two new events on Basel IV and Crisis Management. Highlights include:
🔹 Scenario Analysis and ICAAP Reporting (02–04 Sept)
🔹 Why Your Risk Strategy Starts with Trust (10 Sept)
🔹 ICAAP Lifecycle and Implementation (16–18 Sept)
🔹 Mastering Operational Resilience (06–08 Oct)
Each session is designed to be practical and engaging.
EXPLORE THE FULL SCHEDULE - 🔗https://www.aevitium.com/risk-events
5️⃣ More Articles from our Risk & Leadership Series
🔗 Building Operational Resilience A foundational look at how to embed resilience capabilities across change programmes, with a clear focus on regulatory alignment and internal capability development.
🔗 Crisis Management and Response: Best Practices and Strategies Explore how preparation, simulation, and strong decision-making protocols support resilient change execution and avoid improvisation during disruption.
🔗 Case Study: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning A real-world example of how a fintech institution managed cloud risk and strengthened its ability to manage change without compromising client delivery.
🔗 Lessons from the CrowdStrike Windows Outage: How to Strengthen Your Incident Response Plan A timely reminder that not all change failures are internal. This article offers practical insights on preparing for external technology risks that can derail change initiatives.
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Should you have any questions or if you'd like to discuss how our services can specifically benefit your organisation, don't hesitate to reach out to me directly at julienhaye@aevitium.com or call me at +44 7700 160052. You can also book a meeting directly by clicking on the button below.
💬 These gaps won’t fix themselves; let’s walk through how your governance compares. We’re helping teams explore where their frameworks and behaviours align and where they don’t.
Transforming Risk into Opportunity—Strategic Risk Leader | Advisor | Speaker | Author | Chair, NED, & Trustee
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