Shaping the Future
A series of papers
and digital book
Risk as a Foundation: How Smart Businesses Are Thriving Through Proactive Risk Management.
As insurance brokers, our work starts with understanding our clients — their people, processes, and culture. This insight allows us to effectively communicate their risk profile to insurers and secure the right protection. However, we pride ourselves on taking a holistic view, seeing insurance as one part of a wider risk strategy, focused on resilience, not just cover.
Risk is often seen as something to avoid — a threat to growth or stability. But many successful regional businesses see it differently. For them, proactive risk management is a foundation for progress — enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and confident expansion.
In this new interview series, we highlight leaders who view risk not as a constraint but as a strategic asset. These businesses have built resilience by identifying vulnerabilities and putting meaningful protections in place — from cyber security to supply chain controls.
Too often, risk management is linked only to compliance or crisis. But when done well, it creates the freedom to grow, adapt, and take calculated risks.
Each interview will explore how businesses are embedding risk thinking into their operations and culture. We’ll share practical insights, strategies, and mindset shifts that turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Whether you’re an owner, director, or risk professional, we hope these stories inspire a new perspective — one where risk supports ambition, not limits it.
Latest Interviews
“In order to bring a new customer on board, we had to put a disaster recovery plan together with scenarios which included everything from flooding to a terrorist attack. Ridiculous really, I thought at the time. And then two months later the massive Ocado warehouse at the end of our road, filled with robots fuelled by lithium batteries, caught fire and burned dangerously out of control.”
Phil Rawnson
Managing Director of MRT Castings
ENABLING A POSITIVE CULTURE TO FLOURISH
“Governance has to be woven into the company rather than occasionally being applied like a stick of Semtex, otherwise people are more likely to rebel against it rather than seeing it as a safety net.
It’s a skill of good leadership to demonstrate why it’s important so people want to live and breathe it. I think the headline is that governance enables a positive culture to flourish.”
John Gosling
Managing Director of TJ Group
“Risk management is about continually asking yourself questions, starting with ‘is our existing market going to continue to be of a sufficient size’?
I think we’re all more aware and worried about risk, whether it’s financial, commercial or operational.”
James Walters
Managing Director of Walcon MarineWhat Next?
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