Critical Thinking & Professional Skepticism for Auditors
by Raven Catlin
Event Date
March 11 & 12, 2025
08:00 am – 12:00 noon PT
Virtual Training on ZOOM
CPE credits
8
CPE credits will be granted based on a 50-minute hour.
Program Summary
The obvious answer isn’t always the right answer. As managers, leaders, auditors, and risk managers, we must find ways to encourage the critical, skeptical mind to view evidence, reach conclusions, and communicate results. Often, we scratch the surface which is often just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes, it is the little hints that we miss that could be the key to identifying problems and making process improvements.
Do you want to improve learn to look past the obvious answers?
Are you prone to realizing you had some bias after you reflect on reviews?
Do you want your brain to work more efficiently to solving problems?
Can you see opportunities to improve your thinking but don’t know how to do it?
Do you want to be more creative and innovative?
Do you want to recognize more opportunities, avoid mistakes and make decisions faster?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, this course is for you.
Speaker Bio
Raven Catlin of Raven Global Training is a globally recognized speaker and instructor in risk management and internal audit. She is a pioneer in Agile Auditing and published her first book, Agile Auditing: Fundamentals and Applications in 2021 (https://bit.ly/AgileAuditBook). She possesses over 20 years of diverse internal audit experience and risk management, and 20 years of instructing and facilitating a variety of courses. With this diverse experience, she helps professionals add tools to their toolbelts to achieve success.
She performed reviews and audits of philanthropic organizations, mutual funds, general banking operations, trust operations, construction activities, human resources, accounting operations, marketing activities, governance activities, information technology, treasury, derivatives, secondary marketing, and debt issuance.
Her industry expertise and audit experience includes mortgage operations, banking, information technology, not-for-profit, government, and capital markets. She started the Data Analytics and Business Intelligence team for Freddie Mac. Additionally, she created project plans and coordinated the efforts of over 150 individuals responsible for analyzing and correcting security pricing as part of the Fannie Mae financial restatement. As a consultant, Raven performed a business process analysis and redesign (using Six Sigma and Lean) at the World Bank/IFC, facilitated a fraud risk assessment for a regional bank and trust company, and completed Agile Audits for local government, foundations, insurance companies, and banks.
She developed and redesigned the auditing infrastructure for internal audit functions, including developing internal audit policies and procedures, implementing audit software, designing reporting and time management templates, designing audit committee packages, and implementing databases to report and track progress of audit concerns. Raven embraces the definition of internal auditing as a value-added service and clients welcome the “fresh approach” to internal auditing.
Raven is the proud mother of a fifteen-year-old actress, Carmen Catlin, an adorable Maltese, and a stoic horse. In her spare time, she enjoys horseback riding, gardening, cooking, island hopping, world traveling, tapping into her inner child at amusement parks (especially Disney World), and spending quality time with her family.
