Climate product 04 · Build capability

Move your team from climate awareness to confident action.

A tailored, interactive working session that gives executives, actuaries and risk professionals a shared language, a practical decision framework and clear next steps.

  • Half or full dayTailored format
  • On-site or virtualFlexible delivery
  • Action-orientedApplied to your context

Why a working session

Climate-risk capability is built through decisions—not definitions.

The Masterclass connects essential concepts with the choices your organization actually faces, creating a common basis for challenge, prioritization and action.

01

Build a shared language

Align business, actuarial, risk and management perspectives around financial relevance.

02

Connect the chain

Understand how physical and transition drivers can move through exposures, assumptions and results.

03

Challenge with confidence

Ask better questions about scenarios, data, models, uncertainty and proportionality.

04

Agree what happens next

Translate the discussion into practical priorities, owners and immediate follow-up.

Designed around the audience

The same subject requires a different conversation at each level.

Content, depth, examples and exercises are adapted to the participants and the decisions they influence.

Executive

Board and senior management

Materiality, strategic resilience, governance, risk appetite and the questions management should be asking.

  • Decision-focused language
  • Limited technical detail
  • Management action canvas
Cross-functional

Business and control functions

A shared view across underwriting, finance, investments, sustainability, risk and actuarial teams.

  • Roles and handoffs
  • Common terminology
  • Collaborative action plan

Flexible formats

Choose the depth that fits the decision.

Every session begins with a short scoping conversation so the material reflects the audience, sector, maturity and desired outcome.

Delivery options

On-site in Switzerland or internationally, or delivered virtually. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish.

Half dayFocused alignment

Decision Masterclass

Essential concepts, a focused case and a facilitated action exercise for a defined management or practitioner audience.

  • Pre-session scoping conversation
  • Tailored presentation and discussion
  • One applied exercise
  • Action canvas and resource pack

Illustrative content

A practical journey from risk driver to management response.

The final agenda is tailored; this structure illustrates the learning arc rather than a fixed syllabus.

  1. 01

    Frame climate risk financially

    Physical and transition channels, materiality and decision relevance.

  2. 02

    Understand scenarios

    What scenarios can and cannot tell us; selecting pathways and horizons.

  3. 03

    Translate into assumptions

    Connecting climate variables with exposures, claims, assets, profitability or capital.

  4. 04

    Work through the evidence

    Data limitations, expert judgement, models, uncertainty and proportionality.

  5. 05

    Apply the governance lens

    Ownership, challenge, controls, documentation and management reporting.

  6. 06

    Define the next three priorities

    Convert learning into actions, owners and immediate follow-up.

What is included

A complete working-session package.

01

Scoping conversation

Audience, objectives, maturity, priority decisions and examples.

02

Tailored materials

Presentation content aligned with the agreed depth and organizational context.

03

Facilitated exercises

Practical discussion or working exercises connected with real decisions.

04

Decision canvas

A structured way to connect risks, evidence, decisions, ownership and action.

05

Participant resources

Selected references, templates or further-learning materials.

06

Action summary

Agreed priorities and recommended follow-up after the session.

Where it fits

Build capability before, during or after implementation.

Design the conversation your team needs

What should participants be able to decide after the session?

That question is the starting point for tailoring the audience, depth, exercises and format.