Aug 2026 · Johannesburg
Auditing Strategic
& ESG Risk
A comprehensive three-day masterclass for internal audit leaders, risk professionals, and governance executives navigating the intersection of strategic assurance and sustainability reporting. Gain the frameworks, tools, and confidence to audit what boards care about most.
South Africa
"Internal audit functions that integrate strategic and ESG risk into their assurance scope deliver measurably higher board confidence — and are better equipped for the governance challenges of the decade ahead."
Matej Drascek is a globally respected expert in internal audit, ESG governance, and strategic risk management with over a decade of experience advising C-suites, boards, and public institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has held senior leadership roles including Chief Audit Executive, HR Director, and General Director.
A Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and ESG Audit & Strategy Specialist, Matej has delivered 100+ impactful workshops and keynotes for governments, Fortune 500 companies, and NGOs. His expertise spans internal audit transformation, ESG strategy and reporting, risk-based governance, and ethical leadership across financial services, energy, public sector, manufacturing, and development agencies.
Known for his clarity and practical approach, he makes complex governance and ESG topics accessible and actionable for senior leaders and technical teams alike.
Stay Relevant in a Changing World
Learn how to audit what boards and CEOs now rank among their top risks — strategy and ESG.
Dual Expertise
Gain a powerful combination of skills to audit both corporate strategy and sustainability performance.
Assurance at the Highest Level
Learn to provide value-adding insights on board-level decisions and governance practices.
Practical, Actionable Tools
Walk away with templates, audit plans, and checklists you can immediately apply in your organisation.
Compliance-Ready
Navigate evolving ESG legislation and strategy-related disclosures with confidence.
Interactive Learning
Workshops, case studies, self-assessments, and live Q&As for real-world applicability.
Future-Proof Your Audit Function
Anticipate emerging trends and extend your audit scope into innovation, purpose, and stakeholder trust.
- Why strategic risks matter to boards and executive management
- The evolving role of internal audit in strategy
Explores how internal audit is evolving from control-focused toward assurance over strategic risk identification and response.
- Understanding strategy vs operational planning
- Strategic analysis: environment, industry & performance
How organisations analyse their environment when developing strategy — and how auditors assess whether foundations are robust.
- Key steps and risks in strategy formulation
- Minimum requirements for strategy documents
- Performance indicators and the risk of biases
Reviewing strategy documents, KPI quality, and how bias and weak assumptions undermine strategy from the outset.
- Change management and strategic risk
- Auditing the cascading of strategy
- Performance auditing linked to strategic objectives
Risks from strategic intent to execution — how strategy is embedded across the organisation.
- ESG as part of corporate strategy
- ESG risks, opportunities & stakeholder expectations
- Strategic relevance of sustainability topics
- ESG strategic objectives and governance
- Materiality assessments & stakeholder engagement
- ESG KPIs, reporting systems & monitoring
- Why ESG ROI matters to boards and investors
- Cost-benefit logic for ESG activities
- Linking ESG to measurable business value
- Challenges in attributing outcomes
- Outputs, outcomes, and impact — key distinctions
- Practical approaches to measuring social value
- Reliability and limitations of social impact data
- Internal audit's role in assessing impact frameworks
"Across three intensive days, participants develop audit programmes, evaluate governance disclosures, and leave with practical tools they can deploy in their organisations immediately."
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