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Operational Risk & Resilience Certification Program
The Operational Risk & Resilience Certification Program provides a comprehensive framework for professionals to identify, manage, and mitigate organizational threats. This certification bridges the gap between traditional risk management and modern resilience, equipping you with the tools to maintain critical operations in an increasingly volatile global environment.
Participants will master the essential components of operational resilience governance, gaining a deep understanding of accountability structures and the critical role of risk culture in long-term stability. You will learn to apply the Three Lines of Defence model to ensure effective oversight and rapid response capabilities during periods of intense organizational stress.
The curriculum provides hands-on mastery of core ORM tools, including Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and advanced scenario thinking. You will learn how to leverage these tools to identify residual risks and monitor performance against predefined risk appetites.
Finally, you will bridge the gap between abstract policy and operational reality. By utilizing the Pacific Gateway Ports case study, you will develop the ability to identify critical business functions, define measurable tolerances, and maintain situational awareness in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
- Operational Risk Managers
- Business Continuity Professionals
- Compliance and Governance Officers
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Analysts
- Senior Operations Managers
- Crisis Management Teams
- Real-world application using the comprehensive Pacific Gateway Ports case study.
- Integration of traditional risk metrics with modern resilience strategies.
- Focus on practical, daily decision-making over reactive crisis planning.
- Expert-led curriculum covering both governance and technical execution.
- Industry-recognized certification in the high-demand field of operational resilience.
- Master the transition from static risk management to dynamic operational resilience.
- Develop actionable frameworks for maintaining critical functions during major disruptions.
- Enhance decision-making accuracy under high-pressure scenarios.
- Align organizational risk culture with strategic business goals.
- Standardize risk identification and monitoring techniques across departments.
- Gain professional recognition as a certified expert in resilience strategy.
- Operational risk taxonomy development
- Scenario-based stress testing
- Governance framework design
- KRI selection and trend analysis
- Critical function mapping
- Risk appetite communication
- Strategic incident anticipation
Certification Pathway
Your step-by-step journey to mastery
Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification
The Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification validates the credential holder’s foundational competency in operational risk management and operational resilience, including core definitions, governance structures and accountability, basic operational risk tools, critical operations, tolerance for disruption, and the principles that enable organizations to begin building resilience capability.
Operational Risk & Resilience Track II Certification
The Operational Risk & Resilience Track II Certification validates the credential holder’s intermediate competency in the application of operational risk management and operational resilience, including mapping critical operations end-to-end, establishing and justifying tolerances for disruption, designing business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements, managing third-party and concentration risk, and planning and facilitating scenario exercises—including simulated targeted attack and response assessments framed as operational resilience exercises—so that critical operations can continue through disruption.
Requires: Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification
Operational Risk & Resilience Track III Certification
The Operational Risk & Resilience Track III Certification validates the credential holder’s advanced competency in strategic and board-level leadership in operational risk management and operational resilience, including governing scenario testing programs, interpreting exercise and incident outcomes, overseeing systemic and critical third-party concentration risk, leading under ambiguity, and producing decision-useful assessments and improvement roadmaps that strengthen the organization’s capacity to deliver critical operations through disruption.
Requires: Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification, Operational Risk & Resilience Track II Certification
Certified Operational Risk & Resilience Professional (CORP)
The Certified Operational Risk & Resilience Professional (CORP) designation validates that the credential holder has completed the Operational Risk & Resilience Track I, Track II, and Track III certifications and has demonstrated the ability to provide integrated strategic leadership across foundational understanding, practitioner application, and board-level oversight in operational risk management and operational resilience, including the design, implementation, governance, and continuous strengthening of arrangements that enable an organization to deliver its critical operations through disruption.
Complete all 3 certification levels to earn this designation.
Certification Manuals
Self-study books for each certification level
Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification Manual
Track I Certification
This manual establishes the foundational concepts and governance principles required to proactively manage operational risk and build organizational resilience against disruptions. It serves as the introductory step in the CORP certification pathway, focusing on core tools and critical thinking.
Study Guides
1 study guide available
This study guide provides a comprehensive overview of operational risk management and resilience, covering key concepts like the Three Lines of Defence model, RCSA, and KRI tooling. Learners will explore strategies for maintaining critical operations and establishing governance structures to navigate volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments effectively.
Certification Exams
Test your knowledge and earn your credentials
Operational Risk & Resilience Track I Certification Exam
The Track I certification exam tests foundational knowledge of operational risk and resilience, including core concepts, governance roles, risk culture, and the application of basic operational risk tools. Candidates are assessed on their ability to recognize critical operations, understand disruption tolerances, and apply these frameworks within the context of the Pacific Gateway Ports case study.