Live and recorded insight
Leadership Signals for audit, risk and controls.
Practical conversations and working sessions on the leadership, judgement and implementation challenges behind better decisions, clearer ownership and visible outcomes.
Hosted by Beyond the Lines™. Written from an internal-audit-led perspective, useful across risk, controls and governance.
Why these sessions are different
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Cross-functional by design
Real conversations across audit, risk, controls and governance, focused on how leaders reduce friction across the Lines and turn insight into ownership and outcomes.
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Designed for application
You leave with sharper framing and something you can apply in your next committee paper, executive conversation, control redesign or operating decision.
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Practitioner speakers
Each session is a working conversation with someone who has done the job, focused on what actually changes decisions, ownership and outcomes.
Watch previous sessions
Catch up on past Leadership Signals conversations. Replays are available on YouTube.
Session 05
New episodeFrom good auditor to trusted leader: what to develop beyond technical skill
Asim Fareeduddin
What separates a strong technical auditor from someone ready to lead, and how audit professionals build influence with senior stakeholders and become more useful to them without losing independence.
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Session 04
Replay availableAI and analytics for audit leaders: what to actually change in how you run the function
Trent Russell
How audit leaders can move beyond AI hype and isolated use cases to rethink how the function actually operates - from planning and fieldwork to reporting, methodology and oversight.
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Session 03
Replay availableCulture in action: how to audit behaviour without it becoming subjective
Sandro Boeri
Practical ways to audit culture and behaviour with rigour, so findings hold up at board level instead of being dismissed as soft or opinion-led.
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Session 02
Replay availableInfluence without authority: how audit and risk actually get decisions made
Rania Bejjani
How internal audit and risk leaders move decisions in rooms where they don't own the outcome, without overstepping, softening the message or losing credibility.
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Session 01
Replay availableModernising the Three Lines at scale
Kristian Bollerup
How to modernise the Three Lines model in large, complex organisations without creating another governance layer or losing board confidence.
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