Speaking of Risk and Audit – Details, episodes & analysis

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Speaking of Risk and Audit

AuditBoard

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 24

As organizations face increasingly complex risks, staying ahead requires more than compliance. It demands foresight, strategy, and agility.

Hosted by Richard Chambers, ”Speaking of Risk and Audit” is a podcast designed specifically for Risk Managers and Internal Auditors who want to stay abreast of emerging trends and elevate their impact within their organizations.

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08/09/2026
#75
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Management
18/08/2026
#87
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15/08/2026
#93
🇫🇷 France - Management
14/08/2026
#69
🇫🇷 France - Management
13/08/2026
#48
🇫🇷 France - Management
12/08/2026
#22
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Management
07/08/2026
#98
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Management
20/07/2026
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Management
04/07/2026
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - Management
28/06/2026
#99

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Episode 26

Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 16:41

Host Richard Chambers interviews April Crichlow, CMO of Optro, about marketing to the internal audit profession, the company’s customer-driven approach, and the strategy behind renaming AuditBoard to Optro.

They discuss how Optro balances cutting-edge AI features with practical outcomes, builds trust with professional bodies, and advises chief audit executives on communicating value to leadership and boards.

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From GE Audit to AI

Episode 25

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 17:58

Richard Chambers talks with Justin Greenberger, Optro's Chief Customer Officer, about his journey from GE internal audit and enterprise IT to leading customer success at a practitioner-founded SaaS company.

The episode covers how practitioner experience shapes customer engagement, methods for measuring customer health and proving hard ROI (including reclaimed reporting time and reduced SOX hours), and strategies for aligning audit technology with broader company priorities.

They also discuss the practical adoption of agentic AI and autonomous testing—change management, human-in-the-loop governance, traceability to build trust, and tactical advice CAEs can use to start their AI transformation journey.

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Agentic AI Rewrites SOX Testing

Episode 24

Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Duration 15:42

Richard Chambers sits down with Kieran Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Midship, to discuss Midship's acquisition by Optro and their agentic AI that reduces SOX testing from 16 hours to under 15 minutes. They cover how the autonomous testing engine integrates with Optro, preserves Excel workflows, produces auditable evidence, and automates up to 85% of SOX controls—especially ITGCs.

The episode also explores where human judgment will remain essential, how auditors should prepare for ad hoc testing and managing AI agents, and what the future of internal audit looks like as agentic AI scales across the profession.

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Governing AI at Speed: Policies, Processes & People

Episode 21

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 • Duration 15:53

Richard Chambers interviews Guru Sethupathy, Optro's General Manager of AI Governance, on practical approaches to governing AI. Guru outlines the "three Ps" framework—policies, processes, people—and explains why rapid advances like agentic AI increase risks around performance, security, and transparency.

They discuss regulatory pressures, the need for orchestration and continuous monitoring, and how cross-functional collaboration and technology can enable effective AI governance across organizations.

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Optro Unveiled: Rebranding for an AI-Driven GRC future

Episode 20

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 • Duration 06:16

On the day AuditBoard becomes Optro, CEO Raul Villar Jr. discusses the company’s rebrand, its AI-powered expansion across audit, risk, compliance, and infosec, and how a recent acquisition strengthens its leadership in AI governance.

He explains how the new identity supports international growth, preserves customer experience, and positions Optro to transform risk into opportunity with agentic systems of action.

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How AI Agents are transforming internal audit

Episode 19

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 • Duration 19:23

Richard Chambers interviews Richard Penfill of PayPal about using data science and AI in internal audit, exploring how prompt libraries, AI agents, and a new concept called "swarm auditing" streamline analytics and testing.

The episode covers practical challenges (the "bridge tax"), governance and risk concerns, use cases for agent orchestration, and how AI will shift auditors toward judgment, ethics, and strategic oversight.

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Audit Reports that drive action

Episode 18

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 • Duration 16:37

Richard Chambers interviews Margie Bastolla, an audit report–writing expert, trainer, and author, on effective audit reporting. They examine common reporting errors, including unclear effect statements and weak root-cause analysis, and discuss practical techniques to write reports that resonate with high-level readers.

Margie also discusses the role of AI as a research assistant, the importance of critical thinking, and trends toward shorter, more visual reporting that still prioritize a clear message.

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A career in public-sector internal audit

Episode 17

Monday, December 29, 2025 • Duration 19:36

In this episode Richard Chambers interviews Mike Peppers, Chief Audit Executive at the University of Texas System, about his decades-long career in internal audit—especially in higher education and public service—and his role leading the overhaul of the Global Internal Audit Standards.

They discuss the public-sector audit environment, the standards' new guidance for public-sector and small audit functions, the importance of governance, and practical steps for auditors to embrace emerging technologies like AI and ensure maximum impact by 2030.

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AI vs. Cyber Risk: Is your organization resilient enough?

Episode 16

Friday, December 12, 2025 • Duration 16:50

Richard Chambers hosts Michael Rasmussen and Renee Murphy to discuss how AI is reshaping cyber risk, regulation, and the role of GRC and internal audit. They explore AI governance, regulatory change management, digital twins for compliance, and the need for data maturity.

The episode emphasizes auditors’ opportunity to move from being the compliance police to being resilience enablers, using AI to scale coverage, reduce grunt work, and orchestrate risk across business silos to minimize surprises.

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Why corporate culture matters

Episode 15

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 24:53

Richard Chambers interviews Sandro Boeri about the AuditBoard 2025 Culture and Ethics Report, exploring why culture matters, the research behind the findings, and the evolving role of internal audit in assessing behavioral risk.

The episode covers key takeaways including the need for cross‑functional collaboration, better metrics and incentives as early warning indicators, the IIA Global topical requirement on organizational behavior, and practical recommendations for internal audit, risk and compliance teams.

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