Strategic Focus: Verdantix Risk Council Highlights Three Key Risks On Everyone’s Radar

13 Jun, 2025

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Executive Summary

Verdantix hosted its first-ever Risk Council roundtable on May 29, 2025, bringing together risk leaders from a variety of industries to discuss their challenges, technology priorities and best practices. Discussions converged on three transformative risk dimensions reshaping enterprise risk agendas in 2025: AI governance, reputational resilience, and geopolitical uncertainty. Insights from the discussion provide risk professionals with practical guidance to enable them to keep abreast of rapid technological and political shifts.
Three key themes defined the conversation during the Risk Council
Risk leaders are immersed in managing AI governance, safeguarding reputations and addressing geopolitical instability

About the Authors

Renee Murphy

Renee Murphy

Principal Analyst

Renee Murphy is a Principal Analyst at Verdantix. Her current research targets GRC, with a particular focus on the integration of ESG into GRC. Prior to joining Verdantix, Ren...

Katelyn Johnson

Katelyn Johnson

Senior Manager

Katelyn is a Senior Manager at Verdantix, specializing in enterprise risk management and external risk and resilience. She helps executives navigate today’s evolving ris...

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