Format: Online
More assurance isn’t always more reassuring. As geopolitical, regulatory, cyber and technology risks overlap and intensify, many organizations have scaled their assurance efforts — only to find themselves with more activity, more reports and less clarity about where they truly stand. Fragmented reviews, duplicated testing and conflicting signals can leave leaders hesitant to act at the very moment speed matters most.
This webinar explores how Internal Audit (IA) can move beyond delivering standalone engagements to orchestrating coordinated assurance across risk management, compliance, cybersecurity, technology, finance and other providers. Drawing on the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Internal Audit Standards — including the coordination and reliance expectations of Standard 9.5 — Jessica Rodgers, Brian Portman and Courtney Adler of Ernst & Young LLP will share practical approaches for reducing duplication, closing coverage gaps and turning scattered activity into a single, trusted view of risk. The result isn’t just better coverage; it’s faster, more confident decision-making and the greater resilience that a more accelerated and interconnected world demands.
Join us to learn how to make your assurance as connected as the risks that you face.
DATE: Sep 22, 2026
TIME: 1:00 PM–2:00 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:
- Explain the warning signs of assurance fragmentation — coverage gaps, overlapping reviews, inconsistent reporting and stakeholder fatigue — and what they cost the business.
- Distinguish assurance coordination, reliance and integration and pinpoint the role of IA in each.
- Identify assurance activity across the three lines of defense to expose duplication and blind spots.
- Apply risk-based reliance to leverage the work of others while preserving independence and objectivity.
- Infer where emerging risks — AI adoption, cyber, third-party dependencies and regulatory change — demand coordinated assurance across providers.
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SPEAKERS
Jessica Rodgers
EY Global Internal Audit Solutions Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
Jessica Rodgers is the Global and Americas Internal Audit Solution Leader in the Consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLP, responsible for the IA solution strategy and team. She leads panels, speaking engagements and discussions on IA hot topics and industry initiatives and is a leading voice on helping IA functions evolve under the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards. She brings more than 20 years of direct audit, risk, compliance, operations and innovation experience across financial services institutions of varying complexity.
Brian Portman
EY US Financial Services Process and Controls Leader, Ernst & Young LLP
Brian Portman is the US Financial Services Process and Controls Leader in the Consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLP. In this role, Brian oversees process risk and control consulting services across the three lines of defense, with a special focus on IA. He serves a diverse range of clients, including community, regional and multinational financial services organizations within the banking, insurance and wealth and asset management sectors. Brian has led multifaceted compliance, risk and IA transformation projects for large, complex financial services organizations, resulting in the development and implementation of enhanced practices across people, processes and technology. He also has conducted efficiency and effectiveness reviews of financial services risk and control functions, assessing compliance with industry and regulatory standards and evaluating maturity against peers.
Courtney Adler
Ernst & Young LLP
Courtney Adler is a Partner in the Consulting practice of Ernst & Young LLP and a leader in the Energy, Resources and Industrials sector and the UK Risk practice. She has 23 years of experience spanning at-scale transformations, compliance and risk management, governance, compliance automation and technology, process and control design, information security and IT controls, third-party reporting attestations, and both internal and external audits. Having worked across EY offices in London, Atlanta, New York and Santiago, Chile, Courtney has served as the executive on many of the largest and most complex global accounts across the organization and is an active leader in people and inclusiveness initiatives.