Key takeaways
Host: Michael Bondar, principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Presenters: Kate Graeff, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Geoffrey Kovesdy, principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Stakeholder trust is a priority for board members and C-suite executives, and internal audit (IA) has a pivotal role to play in protecting trust in the enterprise. As organizations grapple with trust fractures and deficits, IA can lead in evaluating and benchmarking stakeholder trust proactively to uncover where action is needed most. We’ll discuss:
- The impact of trust on organizational performance
- Various drivers of enterprise trust
- Prioritizing trust in strategies and operations
- The evolving role of internal audit in assessing, assuring, and earning stakeholder trust in the enterprise
Meet the speakers
Michael Bondar
Michael Bondar is a principal in the Risk & Financial Advisory business leading Deloitte’s Enterprise Trust offering. He focuses on helping clients improve organizational performance by building, protecting and enhancing levels of trust for companies across a wide range of stakeholder groups. Bondar spent the first decade of his career leading business process transformation and ERP implementation programs for global clients across consumer, life sciences & health care, and technology, media & telecom industries. Then, after spending time as a technology executive at a leading software company, he returned to Deloitte to lead the firm’s Global Innovation efforts focused on the development, scaling, and commercialization of our various technology-based solutions. Today, Bondar resides in Boca Raton, FL with his wife and two children. Holding a degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and after growing up in Kansas City, he is an avid sports fan of the Chiefs, Royals and his alma-mater Kansas Jayhawks.
Kate Graeff
Kate Graeff is a vice president of Enterprise Trust within Deloitte’s Risk & Financial Advisory business. In this role, she advises C-Suite executives on opportunities to grow their business, drive loyalty and engagement, and protect their brand by (re)building trust with their stakeholders, whether they are consumers, employees, business partners, regulators, or community members. Graeff’s background is in innovation, digital strategy, and entre preneurship. She has experience defining organizational strategy, shaping new offerings, and designing, developing, and scaling tech nology solutions for global adoption. She loves envisioning and shaping the future in response to social, economic, and technolog ical trends. Having worked in over 20 countries around the world, she takes a global point of view on the world’s biggest challenges and opportunities. Graeff holds a Master of International Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts and dual degrees in Diplomacy and French from Occidental College. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two children.
Geoffrey Kovesdy
Geoff has 18 years of experience, where he collaborates with his clients to develop bespoke solutions for their strategic opportunities. This includes, but is not limited to digital transformations, process reengineering, business process outsourcing / insourcing, and ERP implementations. His experience involves leading client relationships through Internal Audit, Finance & Accounting, Compliance, Cyber Security, and Risk Management, leveraging the firm’s assets, such as Greenhouse labs and business chemistry sessions, to help his clients and their teams succeed. Geoff specialization is within the risk management domain, where he spends a significant amount of time assisting his clients in modernizing and transforming risk management activities across the 3 Lines through utilizing digital capabilities, such as analytics and automation and innovative ways of working. In addition, he is a member of our Internal Audit Leadership team and leads our Dynamic Risk Assessment capability.
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