Description: People are regularly described as an organisation's greatest asset. They can also be the source of significant risk. Human capital, diversity, talent management and retention ranked 2nd once again in the ECIIA’s Risk in Focus 2025's risk results, with 52% of CAEs citing it as a top five risk this year.
We are seeing recruitment challenges, skills gaps and shortages in key professions and across all sectors. Employee engagement, talent management, retention, and upskilling are vital to the current and future success of all our organisations. But how well are these activities undertaken? Energy and resources are invested in developing HRM and talent strategies, processes, and services yet employee survey results may not be improving, turnover increases and retention is challenging. This seminar will help you provide effective, professional insight and assurance over the often neglected areas of key people risks, employee-related processes and HRM activity.
Bio: John Chesshire CFIIA, QIAL, CMIIA, CRMA, CIA, CISA
John is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (FCIIA). He has 25 years' experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. He lives in Oxford in the UK, but he is rarely at home as he works with internal audit and risk management teams across the world. John is an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, has been Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey and runs his own training company, JC Audit Training Ltd. He is a member of the Audit Committee for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of WaterAid, a fantastic international charity.
John has delivered well-received training courses and seminars to 15 Institutes of Internal Auditors across the world and his other recent clients include UK-listed companies, banks, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, international charities, professional services companies, as well as international organisations such as NATO, the OECD, ACCA, and UN Agencies. He is the Chief Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (CIIA) in the UK, and an Assessor for the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). John regularly carries out external quality assessments of internal audit teams in the UK and across the world. He is passionate about internal audit and particularly enjoys working in new and emerging areas of assurance interest.