How do you keep talented people engaged, aligned, and committed for the long term? Burnout, misalignment, and turnover do not just disrupt teams. They drain institutional knowledge, weaken risk capabilities, and undermine organizational resilience when it is needed most.

Riskonnect’s October Risk@Work webinar features Vanessa Mathews, founder and chief resilience officer of Asfalis Advisors, and Vendetta Blowe, vice president and chief risk officer of enterprise risk management at Sysco. Together, they will share practical insights and real-world lessons on building teams that do more than endure high-stress environments. They build capacity, trust, and sustained performance.

This conversation will give you a strategic roadmap for fostering genuine employee engagement, aligning people and resources with organizational priorities, and creating the conditions for retention that lasts. Based on their own leadership experience across complex risk environments, Vanessa and Vendetta will explore how clarity of purpose, intentional leadership, and strong cultural signals reduce burnout and strengthen resilience at every level of the organization.

Whether you lead a risk function, manage people in demanding environments, or are responsible for talent and succession strategy, this session will help you better protect and invest in your most critical asset: your people.

You’ll learn how to:

• Develop a strategic roadmap for employee engagement and retention that addresses the unique challenges of high-stress risk and compliance environments while building sustainable team resilience.
• Align people, resources, and organizational objectives through intentional leadership practices and communication frameworks that ensure teams understand their purpose and impact.
• Implement practical strategies to prevent burnout and sustain long-term commitment by creating work environments where employees feel valued, supported, and connected to meaningful outcomes.