Behavioural Risk as a Systemic Threat: Governance, Culture, and the Hidden Architecture of Organisational Failure

Behavioural Risk as a Systemic Threat: Governance, Culture, and the Hidden Architecture of Organisational Failure

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 02.02.2025 Risk management has traditionally focused on quantifiable exposures: market volatility, credit defaults, operational breakdowns, and compliance breaches. Yet across sectors, repeated organisational failures demonstrate that these events are rarely isolated technical accidents. Instead, they emerge from behavioural patterns that shape how individuals interpret incentives, respond to pressure, exercise judgement, and normalise…

Simon Keslake

Simon Keslake

ByElisa Garbil

Simon Keslake is the Co-Founder and Behavioural Architect of Behavioural Risk Intelligence® (BRI). His focus is on redefining how organisations measure, understand, and manage the most complex human risks – those originating across leadership teams. BRI is a specialist behavioural economics and psychology consultancy. They combine over 40 years of proprietary behavioural data, peer-reviewed research,…

Episode 318: Behavioural Risk with Simon Keslake

ByElisa Garbil

Coordinated and Produced by Elisa Garbil In this episode Dominic Bowen speaks with Simon Keslaké, co-founder of Behavioural Risk Intelligence, about why organisational failure is so often driven by behaviour rather than systems or policies. They explore what behavioural risk really means, how it differs from traditional risk management, and why leadership signals, incentives, and team dynamics…

Understanding the Risks Faced by Survivors of Torture: A Humanitarian and Policy Perspective

Understanding the Risks Faced by Survivors of Torture: A Humanitarian and Policy Perspective

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 18.01.2026 Millions of people worldwide are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict, persecution, and systemic violence. Among displaced populations, survivors of torture face particularly complex and enduring risks that extend far beyond immediate physical and psychological harm. The long-term consequences of torture, compounded by the dangers of migration and the…

The Invisible Doctrine

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism – George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 26.09.2025 George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison’s The Invisible Doctrine is not simply another critique of neoliberalism: it is a detailed dissection of its risks, a charting of the hazards it has embedded into the very fabric of global society. From environmental collapse to democratic erosion, from social precarity to the corrosion of public health…