I am very privileged to work with some wonderful clients combining my passion for improving risk management and governance, but in a way that is manageable, will not impede innovation and productivity, and at a sensible cost.
I adopt a step-by-step tailored approach with my clients bringing a wealth of knowledge and proven solutions from other client work. I combine this with two key principles:
- What works for one organization may not always be suitable for the culture and context of another and
- Governance, Risk and Compliance improvements should seek to simplify, clarify and strengthen processes and activities in a sustainable, and not be a huge burden.
Clients say that I am very productive and offer constructive solutions very quickly. I am also able to listen to what is needed and adapt what is required as well as helping to anticipate major difficulties and take steps to head these off. I have built up a business over eight years, so have the highest standards around ensuring value for my clients, keeping things confidential and delivering high quality work. A list of clients and testimonials is provided elsewhere in this website.
I have developed a reputation for delivering outstanding workshops – open and in-house. Delivering training for the IIA, including those in Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and UK; I also deliver the MIS Audit Leadership school.
I have expertise in Risk Assurance mapping, Lean auditing, Auditing Culture, Root Cause analysis for Internal audit, Influencing for Internal Auditors, Audit best practices and Internal audit team effectiveness. I am also a provider of EQA services.
I am the author of the book Lean Auditing, published by J Wiley. I have been a regular guest speaker at IIA International Conferences since 2012.
James Paterson
Your workshop differed so much because it was shot through with pragmatism and delivered in a refreshingly jargon free manner. Most of the stuff we do as auditors is common sense and there is no need to dress it up as pseudo-science hiding behind meaningless management speak – yet too many on the speaking circuit do just that. I thought you got to the heart of the matter in a very clear and direct way; you helped crystallise some thoughts I have been having recently and offered new insights that I was not familiar with ……so a thoroughly good session, one of the best I have been to for a long time.
I found the workshop that James delivered to be very helpful and very informative and think that it will benefit us all moving forward. We are currently in the process of moving to using the most recent version of Galileo where the focus will be more on risk and thus a lot of the knowledge gained at the course can be put into practice. I think that the course would be very beneficial to others as well.