CAE Club: How well do you grasp the dynamics of behavior within your organization?

Overview

An organization's culture drives how it conducts business and executes its strategies and people’s behavior significantly influences decision-making, risk appetite, and overall performance. However still many audit function fail to integrate culture or behavior assessments in the audit work.

Understanding and influencing behavior is crucial for any organization and internal auditors can make a significant contribution in this area. In fact, it is expected. It's no surprise that this topic is receiving more attention from the professional community, board members, and regulators and the new Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS 2024) even emphasize that internal auditors should promote and foster an ethics-based culture within the organization.

However, often culture and behavior are not truly embedded in the internal audit cycle. This is a missed opportunity. Without explicit and structured research on culture and behavior, blind spots remain unnoticed. Moreover, without insight, effective steering towards a healthy culture that promotes ethical behavior, risk awareness, job satisfaction, and innovation cannot be achieved.

An interactive session is scheduled with a deep dive in questions such as

• Why does understanding of culture matter?
• What contributions can research on culture and behavior make to the organization?
• What lessons can we learn from past practical experiences?”

Agenda

• 17.30 Welcome coffee
• 18.00 Presentation
• 19.30 Reception
• 20.00 Dinner

Speakers 

Erik van Bekkum is KPMG's global leader in the domain of Risk Culture in the audit. He has been with KPMG the Netherlands for 24 years and has over 15 years of experience supporting Internal Audit functions in adapting risk culture. Erik regularly advises executives and supervisors on defining, measuring, and improving risk culture, and frequently conducts workshops at the C-level. He is also a lecturer at Nyenrode University, specializing in Management Information Systems and Internal Control.

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Corine Tol has been working for KPMG for almost 30 years, is a chartered accountant and conducts extensive research on culture and behavior. E.g., she conducts thematic audits and root cause analyses based on audit findings. Corine finds this work fascinating because at the intersection of strict controls and culture and behavior, she often uncovers surprising insights that contribute to organizations' long-term objectives. She assists a variety of organizations in integrating the cultural and behavioral perspective into the methodologies of their risk functions, including internal audit, and implementing them in practice.

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Free event for executive members only.