Event Details
Date: Thursday 30 July 2026
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AEST
Delivery: Online
Registration fee:
Member $440 incl GST
Non-member $550 incl GST
CPD Points: 4
About Event
Adaptive Business Partnering is a practical, insight-rich program designed to help risk professionals strengthen partnerships, deepen influence, and embed risk thinking more effectively across their organisation.
As expectations of risk functions continue to evolve, risk professionals are increasingly asked to move beyond technical expertise and operational support to become true partners to the business. Yet influencing decisions, behaviours and outcomes requires more than knowledge; it requires the ability to understand the cultural context, navigate complexity, and adapt in the moment.
This workshop explores the mindsets and practices of Adaptive Business Partnering, supporting risk professionals to engage more effectively with stakeholders and expand their impact across the system.
Topics Covered
The changing role of risk professionals and what it means to be an Adaptive Business Partner
Why technical expertise alone is not enough to influence behaviours and outcomes
How organisational culture shapes the way people understand, respond to, and act on risk
How to recognise different stakeholder needs and adapt your approach to build stronger partnerships
Practices for shifting conversations from advice and solutions toward curiosity, ownership and shared accountability
How to strengthen influence and create the conditions for better risk outcomes
About the Trainers
Andrew Brown
Andrew is a director and co-founder of Adaptive Cultures. He has lectured, written, worked and consulted extensively in the field of risk management and risk culture. He believes that how we think about (and what we believe about) risk and consequences has a profound impact on ourselves, our organisations, our society and our planet. Andrew has held executive positions across the Asia Pacific region. These include Chief Actuary for AXA Life Singapore, Chief Financial Officer for Philippine AXA Life.
Andrew Gerkens
Andrew is a culture practitioner, developmental coach and facilitator who helps organisations build capacity to deliver and adapt in a complex world. As an Adaptive Cultures Certified Practitioner and Vertical Development coach, he partners with leaders and teams to connect purpose and strategy with culture, and to work with the individual, social and structural dimensions that enable cultural evolution.
His career spans executive, People & Culture and Organisational Development roles across defence, logistics, FMCG, manufacturing and the not-for-profit sector, including Chief People Officer and Impact Enablement Partner at Movember, and capability and culture leadership roles at Lion, Visy and the Royal Australian Air Force. In addition to one-on-one coaching, he convenes Communities of Practice for Not-for-Profit Chief People Officers and adaptive cultures practitioners, creating spaces for shared learning and sensemaking around complex cultural work and adaptive leadership.
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