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A MORE complete approach to risk
WE ENABLE PERFORMANCE BY ALIGNING RISK STRATEGY AND CULTURE.
Two specialist approaches with one shared belief: that risk management only drives performance when its thoughtfully designed and genuinely lived.
We provide award-winning risk consulting and culture change for Australian businesses who want more than compliance from their investment in risk and governance.
Strategy & design
August Advisory
CULTURE & EMBEDDING
RESILIENCESOS®
WORKING TOGETHER SINCE
2024 — AUSTRALIA
Why do most risk frameworks
fail to get used?
“
Our experience shows that risk frameworks fail to enable performance not just because they were poorly designed but because they were never truly adopted.”
Kate Gannon, Founding Director
Frameworks matter. But people make resilience real.
August Advisory provides the strategic design capability.
ResilienceSOS® delivers the cultural embedding.
Together, they close the gap between a risk framework on paper and risk thinking in practice.
Why do most risk frameworks
fail to ENABLE STRATEGY?
“
Our experience shows that risk frameworks fail to enable performance not just because they were poorly designed but because they were never truly adopted.”
Kate Gannon, Founding Director
The resilience of your organisation depends on how well you manage the risk inherent in your strategy and operating model.
That means that your risk frameworks need to be tailored to your objectives, and your people need to be confident in how to use them, every day.
August Advisory provides the strategic risk strategy design capability, while our we tailor our unique ResilienceSOS® solution brings colour to the necessary embedding into the way your teams work.
Together, our approaches close the gap between a risk framework on paper and risk thinking (and doing) in practice.
What's the difference between risk strategy and risk culture And why do you need both?
Risk transformation that actually works, starts with clarity.
Your risk frameworks should do three things: enable your strategic objectives, clarify who's accountable for what, and set a clear marker for where you want your risk maturity to be.
But a well-designed framework is only half the job.The other half is your people.
When your entire leadership team has the capability and confidence to drive strategy within an enabling risk framework, they will lead the cultural change to make it second nature.
Only then can a framework stop being a document and start being how your organisation actually thinks.
STRATEGY & DESIGN
THE FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTS
Helping organisations design and rethink their approach to risk — from board appetite to the policies and tools your teams use every day.
01
Risk framework design and uplift
02
Board and executive advisory
03
Risk appetite and governance
04
Diagnostic assessments and gap analysis
05
Policy, process, and tools redesign
05
Risk management strategy and roadmaps
CULTURE & EMBEDDING
THE CULTURAL EMBEDDERS
Helping organisations embed risk into the way their people think and work — through conversations, habits, and the muscle of practice.
01
Risk culture diagnostics and change programmes
02
Leadership cohort facilitation
03
Team workshops and capability building
04
Manager risk confidence programmes
05
Sustained behaviour change support
06
Scenario workshop cards & online training
STRATEGY & DESIGN
THE FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTS
Helping organisations design and rethink their approach to risk — from board appetite to the policies and tools your teams use every day.
01 Risk framework design and uplift
02 Board and executive advisory
03 Risk appetite and governance
04 Diagnostic assessments and gap analysis
05 Policy, process, and tools redesign
06 Risk management strategy and roadmaps
CULTURE & EMBEDDING
THE CULTURAL EMBEDDERS
Helping organisations embed risk into the way their people think and work, through conversations, habits, and the muscle of practice.
01 Risk culture diagnostics and change programmes
02 Leadership cohort facilitation
03 Team workshops and capability building
04 Manager risk confidence coaching programmes
05 Sustained behaviour change support
06 Scenario workshop cards & online training
Where should your risk transformation start?
How do WE TRANSFORM RISK - WHETHER THAT IS IN the boardroom OR the frontline?
Whether you come to us with a design challenge or a culture challenge, we meet you where you are, and bring both capabilities to bear.
01
august advisory
DESIGN THE FRAMEWORK.
Diagnose where the gaps are. Redesign the policies, appetite statements, and tools so the structure actually fits the organisation.
02
Together
ALIGN LEADERS & PEOPLE.
Bridge the design and the day-to-day. Board, executive, and frontline conversations: calibrated, shared, owned.
03
Resiliencesos
EMBED INTO
CULTURE.
Build the habits, conversations, and confidence that turn a framework on paper into risk thinking in practice that lasts.
Each step can also stand alone, engage both capabilities for a specific need, or sequence them for end-to-end change.
Where should your risk transformation start?
How do WE TRANSFORM RISK - WHETHER THAT IS IN the boardroom OR the frontline?
Whether you come to us with a design challenge or a culture challenge, we meet you where you are and bring both our capabilities to bear.
01
august advisory
DESIGN THE FRAMEWORK.
Diagnose where the gaps are. Redesign the policies, appetite statements, and tools so the structure actually fits the organisation.
02
Together
ALIGN LEADERS & PEOPLE.
Bridge the design and the day-to-day. Board, executive, and frontline conversations: calibrated, shared, owned.
03
Resiliencesos
EMBED INTO
CULTURE.
Build the habits, conversations, and confidence that turn a framework on paper into risk thinking in practice that lasts.
Each step can also stand alone, engage both capabilities for a specific need, or sequence them for end-to-end change.
what does good risk management actually look like in practice?
WHAT CLIENTS GAIN.
The outcomes that become possible when risk strategy and culture move together.
01 / CLARITY
CLARITY AT
EVERY LEVEL.
From board risk appetite to frontline decision-making where everyone understands their role.
02 / ADOPTION
GENUINE
ADOPTION.
Frameworks that people actually use, because they were built with behaviour change in mind.
03 / RESILIENCE
TRUE
RESILIENCE.
Risk thinking that survives leadership changes, audit cycles, and organisational stress and change.
04 / ALIGNMENT
STRONG
ALIGNMENT.
No gap between design and reality. What's on paper reflects how the organisation actually thinks about risk.
what does good risk management actually look like in practice?
WHAT CLIENTS GAIN.
The outcomes that become possible when risk strategy and culture move together.
01 / CLARITY
CLARITY AT
EVERY LEVEL.
From board risk appetite to frontline decision-making where everyone understands their role.
02 / ADOPTION
GENUINE
ADOPTION.
Frameworks that people actually use, because they were built with behaviour change in mind.
03 / RESILIENCE
TRUE
RESILIENCE.
Risk thinking that survives leadership changes, audit cycles, and organisational stress and change.
04 / ALIGNMENT
STRONG
ALIGNMENT.
No gap between design and reality. What's on paper reflects how the organisation actually thinks about risk.
WHERE ARE YOU IN YOUR JOURNEY?
NOT SURE
WHERE TO START?
Talk to us about where you are in your risk journey and which capability, or combination, makes sense for you now.
WHERE ARE YOU IN YOUR JOURNEY?
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Talk to us about where you are in your risk journey and which capability, or combination, makes sense for you now.
ResilienceSOS®
August Advisory
ResilienceSOS®
August Advisory