Richard F Chambers, Senior Internal Audit Advisor at AuditBoard shares insights from his fourth book: Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in an Era of Disruption. The session will explore why internal auditors must embrace change and strive to create value within their organizations. Chambers will share data from a global survey of chief audit executives, as his perspectives from more than four decades of learning, observation and experience. Chambers will lay out the necessary steps for internal auditors to improve processes, mindsets, and skill-sets. Finally, he will explore the four characteristics that successful internal audit change agents share in common, and offer his views on the attributes that agents of the future will need to possess.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Communication

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Join us of a panel discussion on a very relevant topic of talent recruiting, development and retention. You will have an opportunity to hear insights from CAEs on a number of topics:

- Remote and Hybrid Environment – recruiting strategies and challenges

- Changing skillset requirement for internal auditors

- Engaging with your team in a remote environment

- Development and retention strategies

The learning objectives for this session are: 

1. Understand the current landscape for attracting talent
2. Identify ways to recruit and retain top talent

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Prerequisites: None

Every one of us has to deliver tough news sometimes, and we all know it’s easier to do when we’ve built up enough political capital. But what if you haven’t built those trusted relationships or are in a new role that requires you to be the de facto bearer of bad news? Join Amii Barnard-Bahn, former Fortune 5 compliance officer, workplace culture expert, and executive coach, for a fascinating and practical discussion that will help anyone learn to share difficult messages without damaging political capital.

Attendees will learn how to: 

• Overcome the human tendency to dislike and distrust bad news messengers
• Effectively prepare to deliver the news in a way that preserves and builds trusted relationships
• Maintain the sense of urgency and action required to respond to crisis and lead change

CPE: 1.5 hours

Field of Study: Communication

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Whether implicit or conscious, bias is the number one threat to humanity and any company’s success. If your company’s goal is to create cohesiveness within your organization, increase revenue, be innovative and/or elevate your reputation- the bias in your workforce and community is a roadblock. You know the problem. Permission::Granted is your answer.
Throughout this session, Risha allows attendees to authentically express their biases, while giving them easily applicable tools to get over them, however screwed up they may be. Although diversity can often be an uncomfortable topic, Risha’s approach helps attendees to easily understand the concept, without feeling bored or judged.
Risha Grant teaches Diversity & Inclusion through the lens of humanity using terms like B.S. or Bias Synapse as a way to explain our brain’s involvement in the processing and validation of bias.

Attendees will leave this talk with:
•    An understanding of Diversity & Inclusion
•    A thorough awareness of their biases
•    A realization of how their biases originated
•    A recognition of the symptoms and results of bias
•    Tools to address bias internally and externally
•    Tips to navigate the “hot spots” of workplace diversity

CPE: 1.5 hour

Field of Study: Information Technology

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Believe it or Not, researchers estimated that an adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day!

Cognitive biases (biases) are errors of our thought process when we interpret and process information to make decisions and judgments. They come from our brain’s automatic functioning and its tendency to filter information through personal experience and preferences. Biases can cloud our judgments and lead us to make erroneous or suboptimal decisions. 

Biases are inherent in all decision-making, business, management, and audit processes, as well as data biases. Auditors need to understand how biases impact the topics within their audit scope, their own thought processes, delivery of assurance and advisory services, and compliance with the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) requirements.

This session will:

• Provide a basic understanding of biases and their causes
• Review some biases that can arise in the business, data biases, and audit environment
• Show examples of safeguards and mitigation strategies for biases, and
• Types of assurance, advisory, and insight services internal audit can provide to add value.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Flexible work arrangements are here to stay. Employers and employees believe they may "work from anywhere." However, when employers provide services in new domestic and international locations, the employer is exposed to material legal, tax and reputational  risks. The presentation will outline risk issues, controls and risk mitigation options.

The learning objectives for this session are: 

1. Describe the current "work from anywhere" (WFA) environment.
2. Identify potential WFA enterprise risk
3. Describe controls and risk mitigation options to manage WFA

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Prerequisites: None

Security protocols are often built on trust -- trust which is exploited by cyber criminals. From email to phone communications, attackers study how to insert themselves within your trusted circle and protocols to leverage that trust against you. This keynotes dives into the anatomy of trust exploitation in real world social engineering attacks, walks through step-by-step examples of attacks happening during COVID-19, and the steps you can take to protect your data, money, security, and privacy from real world attackers, even during a global crisis.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None