Radar
Every business had a risk register in 2019.
Almost none of them had pandemic on it.
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Not because pandemics were unthinkable. But because traditional risk management is built around likelihood — and a once-in-a-generation event scores too low to make the list. Until it arrives and takes everything with it.
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That's the problem with conventional risk thinking. It tells you what you already know, dressed up in a format that feels rigorous but isn't. It scores the familiar. It misses the devastating.
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'Radar' is built on a completely different premise.
The threats that derail ambitious businesses aren't always the likely ones. They're the ones nobody was looking for.
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Radar makes sure you see them - and act on them. It's our business risk workshop for leadership teams who want to see what conventional risk processes miss.​
What you get out of it
You leave with something most businesses never have: a genuinely fresh view of the threats facing your business, seen from angles your team is too close to see from inside.
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That means four threat heatmaps — covering reputational, strategic, operational and financial threats — each one built from the honest, unfiltered thinking of your own senior team, drawn out by a set of questions designed to surface what conventional risk processes miss.
Plus a set of key questions to take away — to help you decide, as a leadership team, what you're going to do differently.
Not a list of things to worry about. A platform for action.
How it works
Before the session, attendees receive a small handful of carefully crafted questions.
These aren't conventional risk management questions. They're designed to make your senior team think about the business from completely different angles — and to arrive in the room already seeing things they hadn't seen before.
The session itself is a structured discussion among your senior team — typically a combination of your Exec and Board, or for larger businesses, your Senior Leadership team. I facilitate and prompt. The thinking comes from the room.
We deliberately avoid the word "risk." We don't use spreadsheets or scoring matrices. We don't revisit the last risk register. The goal is fresh thinking, not a repackaged version of what you already know.
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The session typically takes half a day — sometimes a full day for larger, more complex businesses. It runs on your premises. Attendees can photograph the outputs from the session itself.
And within a short period afterwards, you receive a full written report containing your four threat heatmaps and key follow-up questions.
Who it's for
Radar is for ambitious businesses with a real plan — and a leadership team that's honest enough to ask whether they're really seeing everything that could derail it.
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It works best when the right people are in the room. That means senior enough to speak candidly, diverse enough in perspective to challenge each other, and secure enough to have an honest conversation about what the business isn't seeing.
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If your leadership team ticks those boxes, the session will be valuable.
If they don't, we should probably talk about that first.
The details
One day or half day on your premises.
Facilitated by Andrew Magowan.
Full written report with four threat heatmaps delivered afterwards.
£10,000 + VAT
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If that feels like a lot, this probably isn't for you.
If your first thought was "that's nothing compared to what a missed threat could cost us", let's talk.