Course Details
Duration: AEDT (UTC+10:00)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Friday, 4 September 2025
Venue:
Online
Costs
RMIA Members $544.50 (incl GST)
Non-Members $610.50 (incl GST)
CPD Points: 3
The management of risk is a dynamic and evolving practice. To support this evolution, RMIA has partnered with Associate Professors Ben Brooks and Steve Curnin, to deliver this unique course, ‘Strategic Foresight for Risk Professionals’. This course will provide participants with the insight required to determine if future risk-driven scenario planning is something their organisation should pursue. We call this type of scenario-planning ‘future risk-driven’ because it uses structured processes to explore consequences and the associated opportunities of situations in future time horizons.
Steve and Ben have packed this course with insights from over decade of research and even more practical experience in risk-driven scenario planning. They are master facilitators and experienced educators with years of experience in virtual course delivery. They will provide you with insights about the value and science behind risk-driven scenario planning. Steve and Ben personally produced most of the research that this course uses, so they speak intimately to this, and can provide all the insight you need to successfully identify the benefits for your organisation.
During the course you will develop a plausible future risk-driven scenario with your fellow course participants. The course is fully online over 3-hours and is size-limited to maximize interactions with the teaching team.
So, what is involved in our Strategic Foresight for Risk Professionals course?
Understanding the fundamentals and application of scenario planning.
Learn how scenario planning can be integrated into risk management.
Diagnose the maturity of scenario planning in your organisation.
Identify treatment options to enhance the maturity level.
Apply the Stretch Think Loops technique – a unique scenario planning technique.
You’ll leave with an understanding of why and how to risk-based scenario can be used in your organisation.
About the Trainers
Steve Curnin is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania where he is also a Director of the Disaster Resilience Research Group.
Prior to commencing a career in academia, Steve worked in emergency and crisis management roles with Australian Government Departments, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Australian State Government Departments, the critical infrastructure sector, and not-for-profit organisations.
Steve continues to combine his academic and practical capabilities on national advisory groups promoting organisational resilience.
Ben Brooks is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania where he is also a Director of the Disaster Resilience Research Group.
Before joining the university he was a Project Director for Occupational Health and Safety in the Human Factors Group – a part of Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia.
Ben has held professional safety management positions in state government, was a consultant occupational hygienist for a decade and continues to provide consulting services in cultural change through the organisations niwaki.global and SafetyCircle.
When you register for this course you agree to the RMIA passing your registration details onto our Training Partner, ABM Risk Partnership.