VirtualLive Virtual Workshop

Creating Data-Driven Stories for Risk Management

All Levels
November 5, 2026
10:00 am–2:00 pm ET

Overview

Apply the power of storytelling to effectively communicate risk management issues and recommendations and tailor them to specific audiences.

Risk ManagementArtificial IntelligenceStrategic Risk ManagementEnterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Course Info

Data analytics are key to effective enterprise risk management. Risk management professionals are developing and leveraging their analytic skills using core and developing AI technologies and tools to identify and alert stakeholders to changes in strategic, operational, and financial risks. However, they are struggling with communicating risk issues effectively to various levels of stakeholders at executive, management, and operational levels. Storytelling with data is an essential skill to gain and keep the attention of risk management stakeholders so they can understand their risk issues and make decisions on how to address them.

This course is designed to help risk management professionals understand and apply the power of storytelling to effectively communicate risk management issues and recommendations and tailor them to specific audiences.

What You Will Learn

  • Describe current business and technology trends 
  • Understand storytelling and its value in communicating and decision making
  • Understand data and analytic trends
  • Compare analytics methods and visualization types
  • Present data analytics effectively for decisioning with storytelling

November 5–6, 2026

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST

MEMBER$650
NON-MEMBER$900
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  • Pat Saporito

    Founder and Principal Consultant, Saporito & Associates, LLC

Registration Closes November 4
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March 17–18, 2027

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

MEMBER$650
NON-MEMBER$900
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  • Pat Saporito

    Founder and Principal Consultant, Saporito & Associates, LLC

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October 19–20, 2027

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

MEMBER$650
NON-MEMBER$900
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  • Pat Saporito

    Founder and Principal Consultant, Saporito & Associates, LLC

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Who Should Attend?

This program is for risk management professionals who use or present data to make business decisions. This could include risk managers, risk analysts, claim analysts, and/or safety and loss control analysts.

RIMS education courses are designed primarily for risk and insurance professionals, but anyone within an organization who wants to learn more about a specific topic of interest is encouraged to attend.

Your Instructor

Pat Saporito

Pat Saporito

Founder and Principal Consultant, Saporito & Associates, LLC

Patricia Saporito is Founder and Principal Consultant at Saporito & Associates, where she provides data analytics governance, training, and program development to businesses and professional associations. A former global analytics executive, she spent nearly 13 years at SAP as Senior Director of the Global Center of Excellence for Analytics and Insight, providing thought leadership on data and analytics strategy and execution. Earlier roles include Industry Director for Insurance, Healthcare and Pharma at Teradata, VP and Insurance Industry Director at META Group, and Director at American Re-Insurance. Across more than 25 years, she has helped organizations in insurance, financial services, healthcare, and government develop data governance programs, build analytics strategies, improve data literacy, establish analytics centers of excellence, and launch AI governance initiatives.

Pat is the author of Applied Insurance Analytics and a frequent speaker and industry thought leader. She serves as an Adjunct Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, advising master's students on industry capstone projects, and sits on the advisory board for the school's BI and Analytics master's program. She designs and delivers workshops on data literacy, data storytelling, data visualization, AI for business, AI for risk management, and critical thinking with data. Pat is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and a Fellow of Insurance Data Management, and she holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Risk Management from Pace University's Lubin School of Business.

FAQs

What is the policy for cancellations and refunds?

RIMS reserves the right to cancel a course if conditions warrant. In the event of such a cancellation, registration fees will be refunded.

All requests for refunds or changes must be submitted in writing to RIMS at pd@RIMS.org. Registrants who cancel 15 business days or less prior to the start of the workshop can send a replacement from their company or receive credit to attend another workshop with the same duration and cost within a year of the cancelled registration. Please note if the member rate was paid for the original registration and you elect to send a replacement or transfer the credit to another employee of your organization who is not a member, an additional fee will be charged to offset the difference between the member and nonmember rate. No refunds will be issued for cancellations less than 15 days from the start of the workshop.