Professional Certificate Course
Delivery: Classroom
Duration: 5 days
This course equips airport executives with best practices for navigating uncertainty through a structured, organization-wide approach to risk management. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) enables airports to identify, assess, and manage risks holistically, ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting assets, and enhancing decision-making. By prioritizing risks based on impact and likelihood, organizations can implement strategies to mitigate threats and capitalize on opportunities.
The goal is to foster long-term resilience by balancing risk and opportunity in a systematic yet flexible manner, positioning the airport for sustainable success.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a governance structure and an enterprise risk management program
- Apply risk management approaches to assess and monitor major exposures
- Analyze strategies to address economic, operational, and strategic risks
- Understand professional risk management principles and ethical leadership conduct
- Recognize the role of behaviors, ethics, and values in responsible business practices
- Adapt leadership approaches to manage disruptions and uncertainty
- Identify and prioritize critical risks and opportunities for their airport
- Communicate risks effectively to executive management and the Board of Directors.
- Apply theories and frameworks related to uncertainty
- Establish risk/reward parameters for decision-making and authority delegation.
- Foster a culture of uncertainty awareness and integrate risk management into strategic planning
- Develop action plans that align with best practices to enhance organizational performance
Target Audience
- Airport Board Members and Executives
- Airport Senior Management across all functional areas
- Airport Strategic Planners and Risk Managers
- Aviation Consultants specializing in enterprise risk management
Course Content
- Developing a structured ERM framework for airports
- Risk and Opportunity Profiling – Identifying common airport risks and strategic opportunities
- Risk Assessment Criteria – Evaluating likelihood, impact, and influence on decision-making
- Risk/Reward Parameters – Establishing decision-making guidelines and frameworks
- Strategic Risk and Opportunity Analysis – Managing planning, design, and operations in a dynamic environment
- Uncertainty Management – Creating action plans and templates for proactive risk mitigation
- Adaptive Decision-Making – Understanding the benefits of uncertainty management in airport operations
- Practical Application – Individual and group exercises to develop strategies for real-world implementation
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