Todd is a highly sought after keynote speaker, commentator and  thought leader in fields of business, risk, governance and internal audit. He is a regular commentator on topics such as emerging risk, resilience and makes an effort to stretch people’s thinking, help define leading practice and point out the ‘elephants in the room’ in these [...]

Insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Thanks to Lexis Nexis for making my most recent article available from the current issue of Risk Management Today to my clients and readers. The editorial panel was asked to cast their mind back to the most significant risk events [...]

In the weeks following the launch of ISO 31000, Todd Davies interviewed Michael Parkinson, Chairman of IIA Australia’s Technical Committee on the new global risk standard – ISO 31000. This series of videos provide a brief overview of what ISO 31000 is, why it’s important, who should use it and the role of internal audit. [...]

It seems that my piece in the June edition of Risk Management Magazine caused some contraversy, and even drew a letter to the editor from the President of the Risk Management Institution of Australia.  This is all healthy debate as it forces us to assess whether learned approaches are still relevant, or whether we’re just [...]

Silos.  It’s a word that can fill you with dread if your responsible for the governance of an organisation, yet they keep on appearing.  Organisational theory is currently aguing for matrix structures, but if you’ve ever tried to run one you’ll know that shared accountability without the right tools is the same as no accountability [...]

Leading practices in governance, internal audit, risk and assurance. Todd Davies has been helping shape the risk and assurance landscape globally for more than a decade. Todd Davies & Associates works with Australia’s most respected companies to get the greatest impact out of their internal audit and risk functions. We help leading organisations to: Define [...]