Format: Online
Whether your internal audit function recently completed an External Quality Assessment (EQA) or you will do so in the future, this dynamic session will provide valuable insight from EQAs IIA Quality Services has performed to date under the new Global Internal Audit Standards (Standards). The new Standards not only focus on conformance, but they also focus on the performance of an internal audit function. In this session you will gain a clear understanding of actionable insights into trends and opportunities on how your internal audit function can enhance audit quality, ensure conformance, improve performance, boost your function’s maturity, elevate credibility with stakeholders, and help strengthen your organization’s ability to create, protect and sustain value.
DATE: Sep 23, 2025
TIME: 11:00 AM-12:30 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 attending you will:
- Introduction
- Impact of the New Standards on External Quality Assessments
- Maturity Assessments Importance for Internal Audit Quality
- Trends and Opportunities to Elevate Internal Audit Effectiveness
- Questions
SPEAKERS
Warren Hersh
CIA, CPA, CISA, CFE – Director, IIA Quality Service
Warren Hersh is the Director of Quality Services for the IIA. He was previously Comptroller for the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX), Auditor General and interim CFO for New Jersey Transit, and Internal Audit Director at Jefferson Wells (now Experis) and BDO Seidman. With 40+ years of experience in internal auditing, quality assessment, risk management, fraud prevention/detection, project management, business process analysis/improvement, corporate governance, and IT, he has conducted external quality assessment reviews in many industries and has also helped to establish and improve internal audit functions. Warren served on the IIA’s International Internal Audit Standards Board for 11 years and the International Public Sector Committee for three years. Warren previously served as the President of IIA–Philadelphia and is currently on the Chapter Audit Committee. He presents frequently at industry conferences and is a CIA, CPA, CISA and CFE.
Keith Kahl
CIA, CRMA, CPA, CGMA, CFE – Lead Quality Advisor for IIA Quality Services
Keith Kahl is a qualified External Quality Advisor with experience (since 2021) leading/performing external quality assessments and he facilitates the IIA Audit Leaders Network’s CAE roundtables. He was a member of the IIA’s Global Quality Assessment (QA) Manual Task Force, senior advisor on IIA’s Vision 2035 project, and co-developed IIA Quality Services’ Principles Effectiveness (maturity) Framework. His total career spanned 40 years in external and internal audit (22 years as a Chief Audit Executive), tax, finance and accounting, investor relations, and operations at global, multi-billion dollar, NYSE companies. He has a BBA in Accounting from Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH) and an MBA in International Business from DePaul University (Chicago, IL), and is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Chartered Global Management Accountant and holds a Certificate in Risk Management Assurance. Keith served on both the Chicago and Houston IIA Board of Governors and led CAE roundtables in Chicago and Houston.
Basil Woller
CIA, CRMA: Principal and Owner, Basil Woller & Associates, LLC, Lead Quality Advisor for IIA Quality Services
Basil Woller has 40+ years of experience in internal auditing, risk assessment and management, corporate governance, and ethics and compliance. For the past 14 years, he has focused on providing quality services to a broad spectrum of organizations. He has personally conducted 500+ quality assessments during his career. Woller has presented frequently and authored several articles on internal audit quality, facilitates quality assessment training, and authored the latest version of The IIA’s Quality Assessment Manual. He previously led Protiviti’s global external quality assessment services practice and served as Chief Audit Executive at El Paso Corporation. Woller served on The IIA’s board of directors as the International Treasurer and Chairman of the Global Finance Committee. Woller was recently inducted into the North American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners in March 2023.