Having difficulties gaining and maintaining management support for ERM? This MER keynote address will define a proven approach for:

• Gaining buy-in
• Building and operating your organization's ERM program
• Making RM and ERM key components of the organization's compliance program
• Aapplying a successful compliance/business model to achieving best practice performance

This session will feature a pioneering compliance risk management business model: what it is, how it works and why it has been successful. It will provide specific guidance regarding how easily and naturally it lends itself to ERM.

This session will walk you through a "road map" for driving your RM program's sustainability. Legal requirements for litigation discovery are not the only drivers for building a proactive and robust ERM program. Your company's Chief Compliance/Ethics Officer (CCO) is accountable to senior management and the Board of Directors for overseeing an enterprise Compliance and Ethics program to manage a broad spectrum of risks. Records management could likely be one of the most significant risk areas in your company's risk profile. The business case for building and sustaining a best practice RM program should begin with that recognition.

The next step is to ensure that you have a solid plan for moving your RM program along an improvement trajectory toward a best practice RM program. If you have that plan, are RM and ERM also key components of your company's overall compliance program? If not, you may be missing a valuable approach for gaining buy in, visibility and credibility for your program requirements.

The final step is to consider whether you are effectively integrating the program's requirements into your organization's operations and culture. If not, you may be lacking a valuable and holistic approach for your program's long term sustainability.

This session will include a distinguished panel of experts who will discuss aligning your RM program with your company's Compliance and Ethics program, including how to:

• Understand the legal requirements, best practice elements, methodologies and tools of Compliance and Ethics programs
• Create RM risk assessment and management plans that align with the Compliance and Ethics program?s continual improvement processes
• "Speak the language" of compliance to develop an essential alliance with your CCO

This session also will highlight the importance of understanding how to effectively integrate your RM program into business operations and culture, including how to:

• Drive ownership and accountability to where risk is created into day-to-day operations
• Ultimately, drive ownership to the individual employee

Perspectives shared by the panel will help you become a more effective and integrated business partner to your CCO in meeting legal requirements and the expectations of senior management and the Board. This approach will also help you engage other senior executives as critical champions of the RM program to help drive its visibility, credibility and sustainability for risk mitigation, year after year.