Format: Online
This Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) event is a three-part webinar series designed to help internal auditors, audit leaders, risk professionals, and governance stakeholders respond to today’s most consequential challenges as risks escalate faster, regulatory expectations intensify, and boards demand clearer, more actionable insight into how governance, risk, and compliance function in practice.
Traditional GRC models, built for stable environments and cyclical reporting, are increasingly out of sync with the speed and complexity of modern risk. This program moves beyond foundational concepts to focus on:
• Where GRC breakdowns are occurring now
• Why governance structures struggle to keep pace with emerging risk
• How board and audit committee expectations are reshaping assurance and reporting
Each session delivers practical, experience-driven insight aligned with current issues such as AI governance, cyber resilience, third party risk, regulatory volatility, and board-level oversight. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how internal audit and risk functions can elevate their role from assurance providers to strategic governance partners.
Each webinar in the series qualifies for 1 NASBA CPE credit, for a total of 3 CPEs, and is designed to provide timely, actionable guidance that participants can apply within their organizations.
Note: CPE credit will be awarded per webinar. For each webinar, please remain logged in for a minimum of 50 minutes and engage on at least three poll questions.
Event Structure & Timing
Time (in ET) Session
12:00–1:00 PM Webinar 1
1:00–1:15 PM Break
1:15–2:15 PM Webinar 2
2:15–2:30 PM Break
2:30–3:30 PM Webinar 3
Webinar Program
Webinar 1 – AI, Cyber, and Third Parties: The New Front Lines of GRC Failure
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Webinar 2 – When Risk Becomes Consequence: Governing in a Faster Than Response World
Full Webinar Details Coming Soon
Webinar 3 – What the Board Expects Now: Reframing GRC Reporting, Assurance, and Insight
In today’s fast-moving and increasingly complex risk environment, boards and audit committees are expecting more than traditional reporting and assurance approaches. They want sharper insight, clearer connections between risk, ethics, culture, and strategy, and more meaningful intelligence that supports timely oversight and decision-making. This session will explore how governance, risk, and compliance reporting must evolve to meet these rising expectations, with particular attention to reputational risk, organizational culture, ethical leadership, and the board’s growing demand for forward-looking, actionable insight.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Identify how board and audit committee expectations of GRC reporting and assurance are evolving in response to today’s risk environment.
- Explain why governance, ethics, culture, and reputational risk must be more clearly integrated into reporting and oversight discussions.
- Recognize the importance of moving from static compliance reporting toward more strategic, forward-looking insight.
- Explore practical ways internal auditors, governance professionals, and risk leaders can better support board oversight and decision-making.
- Strengthen understanding of how GRC functions can help boards navigate complexity, uncertainty, and emerging risk with greater confidence.
DATE: Jun 11, 2026
TIME: 12:00 PM–3:30 PM ET
One (1) NASBA CPE will only be awarded to participants on the live broadcast who are logged in for a minimum of 50 minutes and engage on at least three poll questions per each hour of the event.
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By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
Learning Objective(s):
- Assess how accelerating risk dynamics are exposing weaknesses in traditional governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) models.
- Explain how evolving board and audit committee expectations are reshaping the role of internal audit and risk functions, requiring more timely, integrated, and forward-looking insight.
- Apply practical governance and reporting approaches to elevate GRC and internal audit from periodic assurance activities to strategic partners in enterprise risk oversight and decision-making.
SPEAKERS
Marc Y. Tassé, MBA, FCPA, FCA, FCG, CD.G, CFF
Director, MBA Program, University of Ottawa
Marc Y. Tassé is a globally recognized authority on governance, ethics, and strategic leadership. A Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA, FCA) and Fellow Chartered Governance Professional (FCG), he advises boards, regulators, and senior executives in Canada and internationally on integrity, risk, and fiduciary oversight. His work has included strategic collaboration with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, and OECD, and he was twice selected to participate in the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the IMF and World Bank Group.
Mr. Tassé has held senior governance roles across the public sector, including Chair of the Governance, Ethics & Nominating Committee at Reporting and Assurance Standards Canada, member of the Governing Council of the Standards Council of Canada, and appointee to Ontario’s Education Sector Audit Committee. He has provided expert testimony before Canada’s House of Commons and Senate committees and served as a trusted advisor to federal departments on enhanced due diligence, procurement integrity, and anti corruption, holding both Secret and Top Secret security clearances.
An experienced independent director and trustee, Mr. Tassé has served on more than twenty private and not for profit boards and committees. He is a National Board member of the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada and helped advance boardroom practice through the creation of the TASSE Score, a forward looking diagnostic that enables boards to identify reputational risk early, strengthen decision making, and prevent foreseeable harm before crises emerge.
An award winning academic and practitioner, Professor Tassé teaches in the Executive MBA Program and Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he also serves as Director of the Telfer MBA Program and Senior Fellow for the Directors Education Certificate (CD.G). He is Associate Chair of the MBA Program at the Royal Military College of Canada, mentors emerging leaders through King’s Trust Canada, and is a frequent speaker at leading international forums. His contributions to ethics and public trust have been recognized with His Majesty King Charles III Coronation Medal and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Pin.