Ivy Walker on Risk Management

This is the ultimate guide for small business owners to quickly learn actionable steps they can take to protect their most valuable asset from a range of risks especially cybersecurity, fraud, reputation risk (social media), and workplace violence. Chock full of relatable, real stories that perfectly bring to life key risks, this easy to read, always informative and sometimes funny how-to-guide arms readers with advice, tips—and importantly—access to time-saving, free and low-cost tools they can use to immediately implement effective risk management strategies for their businesses.

Ivy Walker is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning author, teacher, business coach, and award-winning director and executive producer of documentary films. Ivy has founded or co-founded multiple companies, including Helios Digital Learning, a company using digital storytelling to help business professionals and students improve their ethical decision-making, Purpose Workforce Solutions, a staffing firm that specializes in connecting the aspirations of disconnected youth to job opportunities, and AskCoda, a risk-management platform for small businesses.

Ivy's professional background includes successful stints at Fortune 500 companies in consulting and investment banking and experience in private equity and the social venture/non-profit sector.

Topics in this episode include:

01:28: About Ivy Walker

09:45: What is Occupational Fraud?

16:29: Ivy's expert insight and advice on cyber attacks.

21:29: Investing in training to protect yourself against cyber attacks.

32:31: Applying Ivy's risk management steps.

Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Minute-Risk-Management-Strategies-Business-ebook/dp/B09TQ7XZDZ

About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia