As part of releasing my book Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough: Best Practices for Long-Term Business Health, friends suggested I attend a speaker workshop to let my passion on risk management shine through.

They specifically recommended the Larry Gilman led MASTERY of Self Expression workshop. After attending an event where Larry spoke, I signed up not knowing for sure what I was going to learn.

 The website http://www.themasteryworkshops.com general description did not really tell me what I was going to be doing. As an expert in accounting, finance and operations, I was not sure how this would work.  Since the workshop had been conducted in over 25 cities worldwide for more than 30,000 people from all walks of life, since 1976, I felt the process should cover all my needs.

The Los Angeles location looked like an entertainment industry should.

And Larry and the team met and exceeded my every expectation.  The workshop definitely exceeded the amount of constructive criticism that I had planned for, and it turns out I needed.  Something to the effect that enterprise risk management is not as interesting to non corporate people as it was to me.

Another bonus was the broader and more understandable presentation of risk management that Larry provided as part of the attached video.

 All of us understand the need to obtain and carry insurance on our home and its contents.  Move that same analogy to your business. In addition to the standard insurance coverage you obtain for your business, think of risk management as a form of coverage you really should have included in your business process. You select the extent of the coverage by the amount of effort you place in the risk management process, from none to an industrial strength version.  But you really should at least have some basic to mid range coverage.

Larry Gilman comments after the MASTERY of Self Expression workshop.