The Risk Wheelhouse Podcast
The Risk Wheelhouse is the podcast dedicated to exploring how RiskTech is reshaping the future of risk management. Hosted by our experts, Ori Wellington and Sam Jones, each episode delves deep into Integrated Risk Management (IRM), offering insights into the latest trends, technologies, and strategies. Join us to stay ahead in the ever-evolving risk landscape and empower your organization with actionable knowledge.
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S7E5: When Agentic AI Breaks The Law And You Take The Fall
A subpoena shows up, and it is not addressed to “the company.” It is addressed to you, because an autonomous AI agent quietly renegotiated contracts, stripped a mandatory compliance clause, and triggered a regulatory breach that no human even knew was happening. That is the new baseline for executive risk, and it is why we go deep on the Wheelhouse Advisors 2026 IRM Navigator Leadership Persona Guide and what it reveals about integrated risk management in the age of agentic AI.
S7E3: Why ERM Keeps Getting Ignored
93% is not a rounding error, it’s a warning flare. When enterprise leaders ask for guidance on the biggest strategic risks ahead, many risk teams respond with a quarterly risk register and a heat map. That’s not “wrong,” it’s simply what a compliance-first system is designed to produce. The result is an asymmetric exchange: executives need a radar, and the organization hands them a snapshot from the past.
We walk through new practitioner research from COSO and Crowe alongside John A. Wheeler’s analysis in the RiskTech Journal to explain why the ERM strategy gap persists. Our core claim is straightforward: the failure of ERM is largely structural, not behavioral. When ERM gets fused with GRC under the same reporting line, tooling, and audit committee cadence, uncertainty gets treated like a defect. That destroys psychological safety, suppresses early warning signals, and leaves strategy teams flying blind.
S6E3: The IRM Navigator™ - Turning Risk Into A Strategic Operating Model
Risk work that lives in reports but not in decisions is a hidden tax on performance. We tackle that problem head-on by unpacking the IRM Navigator™, an operating model that connects standards and roles to the real systems and moments where choices are made. Instead of treating risk as a sidecar, we show how to embed it into approvals, planning, and daily operations so decision velocity and decision quality rise together.
S5E9: ServiceNow Buys Armis, Telemetry Meets Workflow for IRM
ServiceNow’s planned $7.75B all-cash acquisition of Armis (targeted to close in H2 2026) is easy to misfile as “just another cybersecurity deal.” In this episode, Wheelhouse Advisors’ Ori Wellington and Sam Jones explain why it is actually a defining IRM market signal, one that raises the standard for what “risk management at scale” should mean going into 2026 procurement cycles.
S4E7: The Academic Reckoning of Risk Management
Risk management evolution isn't just about new acronyms. It's about organizational survival in an increasingly complex world. When we examine the journey from checkbox compliance to genuine integration, we uncover profound lessons about how businesses navigate danger and why some approaches fundamentally fail when pressure hits.
This deep dive traces the fascinating progression from Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) through Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to today's Integrated Risk Management (IRM) framework. Drawing from John Wheeler's powerful "Risk Ignored" series, we explore how GRC emerged after Sarbanes-Oxley as an elegant solution on paper that quickly collapsed under its own weight. As Norman Marks memorably quipped, GRC often stood for "Governance, Risk Management, and Confusion."
S4E4: How Workiva's 32% Stock Surge Reveals a Deeper Industry Transformation
Workiva's spectacular 32% stock surge after their Q2 2025 earnings reveals something much deeper than just a strong quarter. Their $215 million revenue (up 21% year-over-year) and impressive 114% net retention rate signal the market's growing confidence in their strategic transformation—a shift that parallels the entire risk management industry's evolution.
What makes this story fascinating is the context. Before this surge, Workiva had struggled, with their stock down 24% over two years due to overreliance on specific regulatory drivers like the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. When regulations faced delays, revenue recognition suffered, spooking investors. This vulnerability exposed a fundamental weakness in their business model.
S3E5: The Workiva Sell-Off Reveals What's Really Driving Today's IRM Market
A minor tremor—or a market wake-up call?
In the latest episode of The Risk Wheelhouse, hosts Ori Wellington and Sam Jones break down a seemingly routine market fluctuation that revealed far more than expected. Season 3, Episode 5—The Workiva Sell-Off Reveals What’s Really Driving Today’s IRM Market—examines how the sudden drop in Workiva’s stock price, despite favorable earnings, exposed a deeper truth about the state of Integrated Risk Management (IRM) in 2025.
At first glance, the culprit seemed small: whispers of delays to the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and postponed sustainability regulations triggered investor unease. But beneath that reaction lies a profound shift in IRM market dynamics. No longer driven solely by product innovation, today’s IRM landscape is shaped equally by the volatility of regulatory timelines, geopolitical risk, and enterprise strategy.
S2E6: Integrated Risk Management – Evolution Beyond ERM and GRC
Traditional risk management frameworks like Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) were designed for a different era—one where risks were more predictable and siloed. But in today’s fast-moving landscape, these approaches are no longer enough. Integrated Risk Management (IRM) is emerging as the future of risk strategy, offering a holistic, proactive approach that aligns risk with business objectives.