Event Details
Date: 20 May 2026
Time: 9:00am - 12:30pm AEST
Delivery: Online
Registration fee:
Member $495 incl GST
Non-member $715 incl GST
CPD Points: 4
About Event
Most risk professionals know their advice is sound, yet they still struggle to get traction with senior leaders, project teams and operational stakeholders.
If you have ever felt ignored, sidelined or brought in too late, you are not alone.
Risk recommendations often compete with deadlines, budget pressures and change fatigue. Organisations default to business as usual, even when the risk is clear, leaving you to worry about risks and deal with the fallout when things go wrong.
The gap isn't your technical expertise. It's the specific influencing skills that determine whether your risk advice lands when stakeholders are under pressure, overconfident or simply tuned out.
This workshop changes that.
Influencing capability is not a soft skill in risk. It directly affects the speed, quality and adoption of risk-based decisions. When you secure buy-in earlier and with less resistance, you reduce delays, prevent rework, improve cross-functional alignment and increase the likelihood that critical risks are addressed before they escalate.
Learning Outcomes
You will learn practical tools to shape conversations, build trust quickly and position risk as an enabler rather than friction, so stakeholders take your advice seriously the first time.
By the end of this program, you will be able to:
Build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and project teams
Structure conversations that shift people from resistance to engagement
Apply an ethical influencing model that fits risk interactions
Communicate risk insights with clarity and confidence
Reduce pushback and increase the likelihood of informed decision-making
Facilitator
Lisa Harrison - Lisa is a talented, highly experienced and versatile Learning and Development Consultant. She specialises in creating measurable and sustainable behaviour change through learning solutions in the areas of communication, management and leadership, and facilitation. For over 19 years in L&D she has shown has a remarkable ability to partner with clients both internal and external: to analyse needs, create and deliver solutions, and engage learners from a wide variety of backgrounds to achieve ‘life-long’ and ‘life-wide’ learning.
As a learning and organisational development professional with extensive experience in staff engagement and development, Lisa combines extensive learning expertise with leadership and management experience to create an approach to learning that is highly energising and effective across all aspects of business.
Lisa’s expertise in training delivery and design has been developed over many years through a variety of learning and development projects, including organisational consulting, end-to-end learning solutions, corporate and vocational learning, and a range of delivery methods including blended, face-to-face and technology platforms.
Her approach to learning is client-focussed, experiential and active participation in learning, and facilitation based, underpinned with a deep understanding of adult learning and the psychology of motivation and engagement.
As well as holding Certificate IV qualifications, Lisa has also designed, trained and assessed others in Cert IV Training and Assessment, Frontline Management, and Business.