Grant Purdy

Biography

Director of Sufficient Certainty. With 40+ years in the field, focuses on assisting decision makers to have effective and efficient conversations about whether the decisions they are making provide sufficient certainty the intended outcomes will be achieved. Advocate for plain-language risk management and decision-centric thinking — helping practitioners shift from documenting risk to actually supporting decisions.

Areas of expertise

Risk Awareness Week history

Grant has delivered sessions at 6 editions of Risk Awareness Week. Open each archive page for the full programme that year, or visit the original conference site for the session replays.

• RAW 2025
  The Future of Risk Intelligence

  View RAW 2025 archive →
• RAW 2024
  Don't lose your job to AI — supercharge your risk team

  View RAW 2024 archive →
• RAW 2023
  Take More Risk

  View RAW 2023 archive →
• RAW 2022
  The Psychology of Risk

  View RAW 2022 archive →
• RAW 2020
  Solidifying RM2

  View RAW 2020 archive →
• RAW 2019
  The Foundation

  View RAW 2019 archive →

Books & publications

• ISO 31000:2018 — Risk management — Guidelines

  2018 · ISO · contributor · Industry standard

• Deciding: A guide to even better decision making

  2020 · Sufficient Certainty · with Roger Estall