What is this course about?

This course is designed to empower professionals like you to navigate the complexities of corporate governance, stay ahead of emerging trends, and understand the pivotal role of internal audit in safeguarding an organisation’s future.

Over the course of five days, you will immerse yourself in forward-thinking governance practices and gain a deep understanding of the latest developments in risk management. Through dynamic, interactive sessions, you’ll discover how internal audit can be a powerful force in ensuring robust governance, risk management, and internal control frameworks. This is not just another training—this is your opportunity to rethink the way you approach governance, risk, and internal audit to provide unparalleled value to your organisation.

You’ll learn to evaluate governance challenges with a fresh perspective, applying innovative, risk-based strategies that go far beyond traditional compliance checks. Our focus will be on sharpening your skills to provide actionable insight, expert advice, and proactive foresight that drives change.

Who should attend?

❖ Governance leads and team members

❖ Chief audit executives, internal audit managers

❖ Senior internal auditors and internal auditors

❖ Risk managers & team members

❖ Compliance managers

❖ Internal control managers

❖ Other second line teams and external providers of assurance

Insightful corporate governance, risk management and internal audit best practices

About the Trainer

The course trainer has over 26 years’ experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute in the UK, an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, a member of three other Audit Committees in the international charity, defence and local government sectors, and was Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey until the start of 2021.

He has delivered hundreds of well-received courses to governance, risk and internal audit teams, as well as to 15 global Institutes of Internal Auditors. His other recent clients include FTSE listed companies, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, charities, professional services companies, and international organisations such as NATO, the OECD, the ACCA, and UN Agencies. He has been a principal examiner for the Institute of Risk Management and was a visiting lecturer in the Governance and Assurance Hub at Birmingham City University for several years. His courses are interactive, practical and not just theory driven.

• What is meant by corporate governance and why it is so important

• Key corporate governance concepts, strategies to meet good practice and moving beyond a ‘tick box’ approach

• The objectives of corporate governance and the key components

• Corporate governance trends and topical issues: accountability, culture, assurance, board & committee composition, diversity and succession

• Understand what good practice corporate governance looks like

• Identifying and assessing risk and appropriate mitigation associated with corporate governance

• How to deliver professional, value adding internal audit assurance over corporate governance practices

Core Concepts

Corporate Governance

• The purpose and objectives of risk management

• Benefits of effective risk management and common challenges

• Components and dimensions of good practice risk management

• Identifying and assessing risk and appropriate mitigation associated with this subject – what can go wrong and why

• Risk management trends and topical considerations

• How to deliver value adding internal audit assurance over risk management

Risk Management

Effective Internal Audit and Assurance

• What is internal auditing?

• Why is it so important?

• Global internal audit standards™

• The risk based internal audit engagement process

• Effective fieldwork – interviewing, testing, reporting

• How to be an insightful internal auditor

How to attend

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2 November 2025

5 Days

Dubai

In Classroom

*Get 10% off & register for £3,500 before the 31st July 2025

Upon completion of this course you will improve your ability to provide effective, professional insight and internal audit assurance that moves beyond a tick box approach, identifying the real underlying corporate governance challenges and key risks faced by organisations.

£ 3 950