Part two: The leadership conversation How to start the conversation Once you have identified the emerging risks and selected one to consider, you may find that you can facilitate but not easily be the lead for a particular emerging risk. For example, an internal or external expert might be the best person to lead exploring a particular emerging risk. Another aspect of emerging risks is that we can’t anticipate how they might impact us or our stakeholders. The diagram below provides a summary of how you can start to consider who your stakeholders are as per the IRM Charities SIG Stakeholder Mapping Toolkit publication.
Figure 1 - Stakeholder map example You can transfer your stakeholder map to a simple table using headings based on the impacts an emerging risk could have on areas of your organisation. The tables below provide an example of how the stakeholder approach can support a deep dive review of emerging risk. In this case, the risk of an internet meltdown and its impact on stakeholders of a cancer charity is examined.
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