Interim CRO & Risk Advisory
ERM redesigned to deliver value — now.
No more check-the-box programs that set eyes rolling. Enterprise risk management that works for boards and CEOs.
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Interim CRO & Risk Advisory
No more check-the-box programs that set eyes rolling. Enterprise risk management that works for boards and CEOs.
Start a conversation
“Why do sophisticated senior risk professionals keep missing what’s coming?”
They’re trapped in left-brain frameworks — quantitative models, historical data, regulatory checklists — while the risks that matter most emerge in conditions of turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity. You can’t model your way out of that. You have to see it.
The Framework
Most risk failures aren’t failures of data or frameworks. They’re failures of attention — the capacity to see what’s emerging before it fits the model. Right-Brained Risk is the practice of building that capacity into ERM programs and the people who run them.
Explore Right-Brained RiskHow We Work
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Fix inadequate, poorly documented programs. Governance frameworks, risk registers, board reporting, regulatory documentation — the foundational infrastructure that earns credibility. Proven templates refined across engagements at SEI, WPS, Vanguard, and beyond.
Interim CRO or project basis
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Build your team’s capacity for right-brained risk — the broad, vigilant attention that sees emerging threats before they materialize. Cross-disciplinary thinking, scenario planning, and the courage to name uncomfortable truths.
Workshops and coaching engagements
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Targeted analysis of specific emerging risks your current framework doesn’t capture. AI and grid capacity. Digital supply chain exposure. Geopolitical scenario planning. The unseen risks that require outside perspective.
Focused advisory projects
Current Thinking
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Authorization controls govern the AI systems an enterprise knows about. Agentic AI finds the ones those controls never touched. The distance between described governance and established governance, and what the right-brained risk function does to close it.
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India’s tech sector shed over 100,000 jobs in 2025. The cuts are concentrated in mid- and senior-level roles — the people who understood your environment. Nobody’s tracking which of that knowledge applies to your systems.
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Trading systems, policy administration, and claims processing run on cloud infrastructure in grid markets facing structural stress this summer. The cloud contract, business continuity plan, and business interruption insurance policy weren’t written to work together. When the grid fails, they work against each other.
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15 years building ERM programs across asset management, investment processing, fund administration, health insurance, and life insurance. The common thread: organizations where the basics weren’t working and the emerging risks weren’t visible.
Over nearly 20 years at SEI Investments, Susan served in a variety of roles including Head of Enterprise Risk Management. She has held senior risk positions at Vanguard and WPS Health Solutions, and served on the Investment Company Institute’s CRO Committee.
Known for her foresight and pragmatism, Susan speaks frequently at industry conferences and universities about risk management, emerging technology, and the intersection of strategic and operational risk.
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Interim CRO engagements. ERM program redesign. Board risk advisory.