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New wave A new wave of risk managers have proactively chosen the profession as a career – unlike previous generations, who often fell into the industry by accident. Enterprise Risk discovers their hopes for the profession BY ARTHUR PIPER
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any of today’s risk leaders found themselves in the profession by accident, as they confess time and again in our cover story profiles. Today, though, an emerging group of risk managers is choosing risk first and hoping to build a career with the skills the profession offers. That was one of the messages to come out of a round table discussion with four risk managers at IRM’s London offices earlier this year, and from a series of conversations with other members of risk’s new generation. “Risk is becoming a starting point in people’s careers and gives them the skills to branch off and do other things,” Esme Davis, lead risk manager at Nationwide Building Society, said. Attendees at the round table discussion agreed that risk managers were able to bring their discipline to all parts of an organisation and help management deepen its thinking on risk, as well as being able to share best practice across the wider business. All said risk management had a big role to play in focusing on the positive things businesses could achieve through properly managing their risks.
An emerging group of risk managers is choosing risk first and hoping to build a career with the skills the profession offers
Maturity and technology Even though they were keen to stress the positive contribution risk management could make, they said
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