06/24/2025

Building a Sustained Risk Culture through Managed Disruption

This methodology avoids the typical top-down approach

Risk culture comprises the shared mindsets, practices and behaviors that determine how an organization understands and responds to risk. It is more than a series of theories—it is the collective instinct that determines whether an organization's workforce will be hampered by extreme disruption or if it will rise to the challenge and find solutions outside of its usual operations. Organizations must test these two possibilities before a crisis hits.

To build organizational resilience, risk leaders need a methodology that combines managed disruption exercises with collaborative engagement to build or evolve a sustained risk culture. The goal is to cultivate an environment where teams develop shared capability, trust and adaptability.

This methodology avoids the typical top-down approach, where leadership tests employees with no feedback loop. Instead, it creates an environment more like a shared laboratory where everyone from executives to front-line staff participates, observes and learns together. The insights gained belong to the entire organization, not just leadership.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Risk Management Magazine.