The Golden Thread in Practice: Turning Risk & Assurance into Performance Management

Connecting Strategy to Assuranc

Risk and assurance becomes strategic when it runs in the same rhythm as performance. In too many organisations, strategy lives in one place, performance reporting in another, and risk and assurance sit off to the side, producing activity, not insight. The result is familiar: leadership gets reports, but not a clear line of sight to what matters, what's drifting, and what needs intervention now.

This webinar shows how leading organisations connect strategy, objectives, risks, controls, assurance activity, and performance measures into a single line of sight—the Golden Thread—so leaders can prioritise, intervene early, and track progress over time. We'll cover what "good" looks like, where it breaks (siloed tools, taxonomy drift, ownership gaps, spreadsheet reconciliation), and a pragmatic operating model to keep it current without bureaucracy. Clew will then demonstrate how to maintain the thread in one platform, so assurance evidence, actions, and metrics stay connected to the objectives they protect.

Why Attend

This webinar is designed for Heads of Risk / ERM leaders, Assurance leaders (including operational assurance), and Senior risk & compliance managers responsible for reporting, control confidence, and assurance plans.

Attend this session if you want to:

• Make risk & assurance useful to leadership, not just "complete"
• Align assurance work to what the business is trying to achieve (and measure)
• Reduce admin and eliminate reconciliation across spreadsheets and disconnected tools
• Improve control confidence with clearer ownership and linked evidence
• Build reporting that supports early intervention and tracking over time
• Gain insights from Michael Rasmussen, internationally recognised GRC analyst and founder of GRC 20/20, drawing on decades of experience advising organisations on risk and assurance

Key Learning Areas

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Golden Thread in Practice: What the Golden Thread looks like in practice, not theory

• Connected Framework: How to connect objectives → risks → controls → assurance → actions → KPIs in a coherent model

• Decision-Ready Risk & Assurance: What "good" looks like for decision-ready, performance-aligned risk and assurance

• Common Breakpoints: Where Golden Threads break most often including siloed tools, taxonomy drift, ownership gaps, and spreadsheet reconciliation

• Pragmatic Operating Model: How to keep the thread current without adding bureaucracy

• Platform Integration: How a connected platform keeps evidence, actions and metrics tied to the outcomes they protect

What to Expect

This webinar delivers practical frameworks for connecting strategy, objectives, risks, controls, and assurance into a unified line of sight enabling strategic leadership decision-making. Through Michael Rasmussen's insights, Clew platform demonstration, and examination of where Golden Threads break in practice, participants gain actionable approaches for making risk and assurance strategic while eliminating reconciliation work and improving control confidence through integrated platform solutions.

A recording will be made available to those unable to attend the live session.