Format: Online
This broadcast is part of The IIA Bookroom: Author Webinar Series, where we bring you webinars that feature authors and their books found within The IIA Bookstore. This webinar is based on the book You Can Do This - Enterprise Risk Management Made Simple - A Practical Guide to Quickly Turn Risk Management Blind Spots into Organizational Opportunity by Elena Yearly.
Enterprise Risk Management initiatives often fail for a simple reason: organizations attempt to implement too much, too quickly, without a clear vision of what success looks like. Many leaders know ERM is important, yet struggle to determine where to start, how to gain buy-in, and how to build a program that becomes embedded within decision-making rather than viewing ERM as purely a compliance or check the box effort.
This session provides a practical roadmap for how to tailor, address and implement an ERM process in a way that aligns best with organizational strategy, culture, and available resources. Participants will explore how to define the purpose of ERM, establish a compelling value proposition, create organizational alignment, and pace efforts to achieve meaningful progress over time.
Designed for internal audit leaders, risk professionals, executives, and governance stakeholders, this session focuses on the leadership decisions that drive successful ERM implementation. It also covers the unique role that internal auditors play as an assurance provider and not as the creator and owner of the ERM process.
Participants will leave with an ERM roadmap so they can adapt to their organizations regardless of industry, size, or current ERM maturity.
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DATE: Aug 27, 2026
TIME: 12:00 PM–1:00 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:
- Identify the foundational elements required before launching an ERM initiative.
- Evaluate how ERM can be aligned with organizational strategy, mission, and decision-making processes.
- Develop an implementation approach that builds organizational buy-in while avoiding common ERM pitfalls.
- Apply a phased roadmap for advancing ERM maturity at a pace appropriate for an organization of any size.
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SPEAKER
Elena Yearly
EMY Consulting
Elena Yearly is a seasoned internal audit and enterprise risk management leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations apply risk insights to real-world decision-making. A long-standing member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, she holds multiple IIA certifications and has served in senior internal audit leadership roles across complex and highly regulated environments. She began her career in banking, is a Big 4 (KPMG) alumnus and brings a practitioner’s perspective to every speaking session.
Elena is the founder and CEO of EMY Consulting, a Virginia-based firm she launched 12 years ago to help organizations strengthen governance, align risk with strategy, and move ERM from theory to action. She is widely known for translating complex risk concepts into practical frameworks internal auditors can use immediately.
She is the creator of the highly rated session “Sleeping with Snakes: Reframing Risk for Confident Decision-Making,” which has received strong feedback at industry events for its engaging, real-world approach. Elena is also a published author, with a forthcoming book on Enterprise Risk Management. She is certified as a virtual instructor and has taught over 60 multi-day courses for Management Concepts, where she is also a course creator in the areas of financial management, audit and risk management.