Board: Crisis Management & Recovery Planning

This course helps Swiss private bank Board members strengthen their judgment and decision-making during high-pressure crises and recovery situations when correct assessment counts most. Moving beyond operational management, it focuses on governance discipline, evaluating recovery options, and avoiding common governance failures. Through realistic scenarios and dilemmas, Directors learn how to challenge assumptions, preserve accountability, and engage credibly with FINMA and key stakeholders under high uncertainty.

The course covers the topics:
– Regulatory framework
– Foundations of crisis governance and regulatory expectations
– Challenging management confidence: Identifying and testing assumptions
– Preserving governance boundaries: Avoiding governance drift in crisis
– Evaluating recovery options: From paper plans to real-world executability
– Regulatory engagement under uncertainty: Judging when and how to escalate
– Stakeholder Communication: Anticipating and managing reactions during uncertainty
– The five critical governance questions: Applying a structured crisis oversight framework