High Impact Internal Audit Leadership
Introduction
This intensive program is designed for experienced Internal Audit professionals aspiring to elevate their leadership impact. We will delve into the critical skills and mindsets required to lead high-performing audit teams, navigate complex organizational landscapes, and drive meaningful change within the audit function and beyond.
How you will benefit
- Demonstrate greater confidence in dealing with senior leaders
- Appraise what it really takes to be an effective internal audit leader
- Explain how to make an effective and valuable contributions at a strategic level and towards overall business success
- Apply practical methods to manage key relationships with the audit committee, senior management and peers
- Add value through efficient and effective internal audit good practices
- Explain key priorities for them and their departments to help maximize their contribution to their organization
Who should attend
Chief audit executives, deputy heads of audit, internal audit managers and senior internal auditors who deal with business leaders and/or lead or manage members of the internal audit team. This course is equally valuable for both in-house and outsourced internal audit teams
What you will cover
- Effective leadership
- The importance of steady management
- Qualities of an effective internal audit leader
- A reminder of leadership and management theory
- The inspirational internal audit leader
- Large versus small internal audit teams
- The mission statement and definition of internal auditing
- Relevant attribute and performance standards
- Challenges all internal audit leaders face
- Resolving common challenges
- Determining risk maturity
- Designing the risk based assurance universe
- Developing an effective internal audit strategy
- How you develop your universe and strategy
- Coordination with other assurance providers
- Advantages and disadvantages of working with other assurance providers
- Determining the annual or six monthly internal audit plan
- Delivering the plan
- Discussion: Good practice planning
- Internal audit delivery today and building team capability for tomorrow
- Securing the necessary internal audit resources
- Managing internal audit resources
- Dealing with the dispersed team
- Ensuring an effective internal audit engagement process
- Maximizing efficiency
- Managing co-sourcing and contractors
- In-house versus outsourced contractors
- Risk management in the internal audit function
- Risk identification and management for internal audit
- Perceptions of internal audit
- Stakeholder analysis
- Effective stakeholder relations
- Marketing internal audit
- Internal audit’s product mix
- Best practice stakeholder management
- Effective reporting and recommendations
- Conflict management, negotiation and persuasion
- Networking
- Conflict and solutions
- What is insight
- Delivering insight and impact
- Enhancing and protecting organizational value
- Adding value through assurance and consulting
- The power and perils of advisory work
- The quality assurance and improvement program
- Internal assessments
- External assessments
- Elements of the improvement program
Schedule
Live Online
$6,500
26 - 30 Jan 2026
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