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Resilient Risk Management
How Risk Leadership Enables Agility
Written by Julien Haye – Risk Advisor, Board Leader, and Host of RiskMasters.
Discover how leaders build organisational agility, strengthen resilience and turn uncertainty into strategic advantage.
Excerpt from Resilient Risk Management
Organisations today operate in an environment where disruption is no longer exceptional. Technological change, geopolitical uncertainty, supply-chain fragility, cyber threats, regulatory expectations and shifting workforce dynamics have fundamentally altered the conditions under which leaders make decisions. Yet many organisations continue to approach resilience as a compliance exercise, a crisis-management capability or a collection of operational safeguards.
This view is no longer sufficient.
Resilient organisations do not simply recover from disruption. They anticipate change, adapt to emerging conditions and continue creating value when assumptions are challenged. Resilience is not a plan that sits on a shelf. It is a leadership capability embedded within strategy, governance, culture and decision-making.
In Resilient Risk Management, Julien Haye challenges traditional approaches to resilience and offers a practical framework for building organisational agility in an increasingly uncertain world. Drawing on more than two decades of experience advising boards, executives and risk leaders, he demonstrates how organisations can strengthen foresight, improve decision quality and create cultures capable of responding effectively to disruption.
Through real-world case studies, practical tools and actionable frameworks, this book explores the relationship between resilience, risk management and leadership. It examines how organisations identify emerging threats, navigate uncertainty, strengthen governance, build trust and develop the adaptability required to sustain performance over the long term.
Whether you are a board director, chief risk officer, executive leader or governance professional, Resilient Risk Management provides a practical roadmap for transforming uncertainty into foresight, resilience into capability and capability into lasting strategic advantage.
Building Organisational Agility in an Uncertain World
The second book in the Risk Leadership Series.
Today's organisations operate in an environment defined by disruption, uncertainty and accelerating change. Traditional approaches to resilience often focus on recovery and continuity. The organisations that thrive are those that develop the capacity to anticipate, adapt and evolve.
Resilient Risk Management provides leaders with a practical framework for transforming uncertainty into foresight, strengthening governance, building resilient cultures and creating organisational agility that sustains performance through disruption.
Coming November 2026 from Kogan Page
Why Resilient Risk Management
Resilience Has Become a Leadership Challenge
Most organisations recognise the importance of resilience.
Few know how to build it.
Many resilience initiatives remain disconnected from strategy, governance, leadership behaviour and organisational culture. As a result, resilience becomes a programme rather than a capability.
Resilient Risk Management reframes resilience as a strategic leadership discipline.
Drawing on more than 27 years of global experience in risk management, governance and organisational transformation, Julien Haye explores how leaders can:
1) Strengthen organisational agility
2) Improve decision-making under uncertainty
3) Build cultures where critical information flows freely
4) Align governance with adaptability
5) Develop foresight capabilities that identify emerging threats and opportunities
6) Create organisations capable of thriving through disruption
Building on The Risk Within
From Psychological Safety to Organisational Agility
The Risk Within explored how leadership behaviour, psychological safety and risk culture shape organisational performance.
Resilient Risk Management builds on those foundations.
If psychological safety determines whether information travels, resilience determines whether organisations can act on what they learn.
Together, these books provide leaders with a practical roadmap for building organisations that identify risk earlier, make better decisions and adapt more effectively in a rapidly changing world.
What You Will Learn
Inside the Book
The book is organised around five core themes:
The Foundations of Resilience
Understand why traditional views of resilience are no longer sufficient and how organisational agility creates competitive advantage.
Culture, Leadership and Hidden Frictions
Explore the role of trust, psychological safety, accountability and leadership behaviour in organisational resilience.
Resilience by Design
Learn how governance, risk appetite, strategy and control environments can strengthen adaptability.
Tools, Practices and Pathways
Apply practical frameworks for foresight, scenario analysis, resilience measurement and executive decision-making.
Towards Resilient Futures
Prepare for emerging challenges including AI, systemic uncertainty and the future of organisational resilience.
Who Should Read This Book
Designed for Leaders Responsible for Performance Under Uncertainty
This book is written for:
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Chief Risk Officers
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Board Directors
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Chief Executive Officers
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Chief Operating Officers
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Chief Compliance Officers
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Heads of Risk and Resilience
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Transformation Leaders
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Governance Professionals
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Strategy Leaders
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Consultants and Advisors
Whether you lead a global organisation, financial institution, charity, public sector body or high-growth business, the principles within this book will help you strengthen resilience and improve decision-making.