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Join the discussion in Zug on 5 May 2026 from 17:00 to 18:00 (hybrid event) – register here

Boards today face a paradox: they receive more data than ever — yet governance failures continue to emerge.

The root cause is rarely missing reports. More often, it reflects two structural vulnerabilities: integration delay and insufficient foresight. Early signals — regulatory shifts, enforcement trends, behavioural strain, geopolitical developments — are visible. But they do not consistently shape strategic interrogation before major commitments become difficult to reverse.

At the same time, expectations regarding board accountability and strategic stewardship continue to increase. Compliance leaders are expected not only to verify controls, but to strengthen decision quality at the top — without expanding their formal mandate.

Compliance at Strategic Altitude introduces a practitioner-developed integration architecture designed to help address this gap.

ISRAF (Integrated Strategy–Risk–Assurance–Foresight) connects:

• Strategic ambition and embedded assumptions
• Risk exposures and systemic interdependencies
• Assurance reliability and behavioural signal
• External trajectory — regulatory, geopolitical and macro developments

— before major strategic and capital commitments become difficult to reverse.

Drawing on enterprise-level experience consolidating audit, risk, investigations and compliance insights, as well as country and board-level experience, the session explores how compliance, risk and assurance professionals can move from control verification to strategic influence — contributing to how boards frame strategic decisions, not only what they review.

The presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A discussion moderated by Dominique Casutt.

Participants will gain

• A clearer perspective on integration delay and foresight gaps as governance vulnerabilities
• A practical lens to connect strategy, risk, assurance and external developments in board discussions
• Illustrative examples of how compliance insight can be framed in strategic language
• Considerations for strengthening capital interrogation before major commitments
• A fiduciary framing aligned with resilience in volatile and geo-economically fragmented environment

Speaker Bio

Natacha Theytaz is an international board and senior executive aligning strategy, risk and assurance to enable resilient growth and effective governance.

Across two globally listed Swiss life sciences groups, she held enterprise-wide Chief mandates spanning Audit, Risk, Investigations, Global Security, Compliance and Speak-Up, and participated in Executive Committee and Board Committee deliberations, providing integrated risk and assurance perspectives to strategic direction and board-level dialogue.

She served as Audit & Risk Committee Chair in the air transport sector during the pandemic, reinforcing capital resilience, liquidity oversight and risk reprioritisation during a severe revenue contraction.

She later held full country-level P&L responsibility in a highly volatile market environment and served on the board of a leading international investors’ association, contributing to institutional dialogue and regulatory predictability.

Natacha developed ISRAF (Integrated Strategy–Risk–Assurance–Foresight) as an evolving integration architecture designed to strengthen strategic interrogation under uncertainty. Her work builds on executive experience, board engagement and advanced board education at IMD.

Registration

In-person participation is limited to 15 participants and registration will be accepted on a first come, first served basis with priority given to ECS members. The event will be hosted by Holcim in Zug and held in a hybrid format.

Please register here by 1 May 2026 EOB and indicate if you would like to join person (at Holcim’s offices in Zug) or online.

Best regards,

Dominique Casutt, Nurgül Cakir and Chiara Varlese

Co-Chairs Working Group CMS/ISO

📢 Event Attendance & Cancellation Policy

ECS events are free of charge for members and prospective members. Thanks to the generosity of our hosts, refreshments may be provided.

To ensure responsible planning and fairness to all participants, we kindly ask you to observe the following:

 Cancellations & No-Shows:

If you need to cancel your registration, please do so at least 3 days before the event using the cancellation link in your confirmation email.

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We look forward to welcoming you in Zug or online!