Corporate Governance, ESG & Digital Risk Course for Boards (H1023)
✓ Board duties and governance oversight
✓ ESG and greenwashing risk
✓ Digital, AI and ICT risk
✓ Real case studies and governance failures
✓ Better board challenge, reporting and documentation
A practical corporate‑governance course for board members, lawyers, accountants and senior professionals. It focuses on board duties, ESG oversight and digital/AI/ICT risk, using real governance failures and case studies to show what good oversight, risk management and documentation look like in practice.
Table of Contents
- About the Course
- Who Should Attend Corporate Governance, ESG & Digital Risk Course?
- Key Learning Objectives
- Course Curriculum
- Meet the Trainer
- FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
- Other Upcoming Courses
- Fees & Registration Details
- Registration Form
About the Course
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*This training program is designed to support continuing professional development (CPD). Participants are encouraged to verify with their professional body or regulatory authority whether the training meets their individual or institutional CPD requirements.
Who Should Attend Corporate Governance, ESG & Digital Risk Course?
Board members and non‑executive directors of financial institutions and professional firms.
Senior partners and directors in law firms, audit/accountancy firms and fiduciary/service providers.
Senior managers, heads of legal, compliance, risk, ICT and internal audit who support boards and committees.
Company secretaries and governance professionals.
Key Learning Objectives
After completing the programme, participants will be able to:
- Describe key principles of modern corporate governance, including the roles of the board, its committees, executive management and control functions.
- Explain, at a high level, the regulatory purpose of corporate governance and how it supports sound management, investor protection and financial stability.
- Evaluate the board’s fiduciary exposures under core EU frameworks, identifying high-level liability triggers within anti-money laundering frameworks and digital operational resilience boundaries.
- Outline the board’s responsibilities for ESG oversight, including greenwashing risk, and for digital/AI/ICT governance and operational resilience.
- Assess their organisation’s governance structure, board composition and committee set‑up against good‑practice principles and proportionality (e.g. CIF class, firm size, business model).
- Map key roles (Chair, CEO, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, ICT, ESG/Sustainability) to concrete governance duties and reporting lines.
- Identify weaknesses in board information, reporting and challenge, and define improvements.
Integrate ESG and sustainability risks into board discussions, risk appetite and oversight of disclosures. - Recognise key digital and AI‑related risks (data, algorithms, outsourcing, ICT disruptions) and define high‑level governance and escalation mechanisms
- Strengthen their sense of responsibility and stewardship as board members or senior advisers.
- Encourage constructive challenge, diversity of views and speaking‑up within the boardroom.
- Treat ESG and digital risk as core governance topics rather than specialist side issues.
Course Curriculum
- Evolution of governance expectations
- recent failures
- board roles and dynamics
- independence and challenge
- case discussion on governance failure
- Governance principles
- board composition and committees
- role of Chair and company secretary
- board information and minutes
- sample pack review exercise
- Regulatory oversight obligations for AML and prudential structures
- Personal liability of the management body under DORA infrastructure frameworks
- Overseeing corporate conduct risk, tone from the top, and institutional compliance culture
- Evaluating corporate proportionality and mapping board-level duties
- Strategic executive review of CySEC supervisory letters and governance cases
- The Board’s evaluation of the Three-Lines Model
- High-level monitoring of control functions
- Executive interpretation of risk reports and audit dashboard metrics.
- ESG responsibilities
- regulatory/stakeholder expectations
- greenwashing risk and examples
- board oversight of ESG strategy and reporting
- ESG case study.
- Digital and AI risks
- DORA‑style ICT and operational‑resilience concepts
- AI governance topics
- board oversight checklist
- ICT/AI incident scenario.
Meet the Trainer
Fees & Registration Details
FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
Under the DORA (Digital Operatioanal Resilience Act) he management body carries ultimate personal accountability for the entity’s ICT risks management. The board is legally mandated to actively approve, oversee, and regularly review the implementation of digital resilience strategies, rather than treating cyber-risk as a technical side-issue. For a deep-dive operational testing guide for tech teams, see our DORA compliance training financial sector Cyprus.
Integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors requires boards to oversee sustainability strategies, ensure transparent reporting, and manage associated risks. Boards must align ESG initiatives with regulatory frameworks like the CSRD compliance and EU Taxonomy, fostering long-term value creation and stakeholder trust.
AI introduces complexities such as algorithmic bias, lack of transparency, and ethical considerations. Boards must establish frameworks for AI oversight, ensuring compliance with emerging regulations like the EU AI Act. This includes setting policies for data governance, model explainability, and accountability mechanisms.
This seminar is tailored for board members, senior executives, risk and compliance officers, and governance professionals in financial institutions. It’s also beneficial for individuals preparing for strategic roles that require a deep understanding of ESG integration, AI oversight, and digital resilience under frameworks like DORA.
Unlike standard programs, this seminar offers a comprehensive approach by combining ESG, AI, and digital risk governance within the context of current EU regulations. It provides practical insights, real-life case studies, and interactive sessions to equip participants with actionable strategies for effective governance in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
Other Upcoming Courses
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