AGR helps you understand the risks ahead, strengthen oversight and make better strategic decisions.
Practical reviews, board workshops and ongoing advice, led by Richard Mackie.
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What we do
Independent board advice across risk, governance and assurance. Three connected ways to work with AGR, each shaped around the decisions you need to make.
Risk Intelligence
See today’s exposure, emerging threats and future opportunities. Turn signals across AI, cyber, geopolitics and business change into priorities your board can act on.
Intelligence briefings · Horizon scanning · Emerging risk
Explore risk intelligenceStrategic Risk Intelligence
Test strategy, appetite and assurance through scenario work, board workshops and executive mentoring. Bring the right challenge into your most important conversations.
Scenario Room · Board workshops · Executive mentoring
Explore the Board SuiteStrategic Risk Partnership
Work directly with Richard over time. Gain a trusted sounding board, continuing strategic challenge and advice as your organisation’s risks and decisions evolve.
Ongoing advice · Board-cycle support · Leadership counsel
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Emerging risk intelligence
The most important risk may not be on your register yet. AGR connects the early signals to your strategy, so you can act before uncertainty becomes disruption.
Explore emerging risk intelligenceAI & technology / Cyber / Geopolitics / Transformation
Specialist services & frameworks
Choose a focused intervention when one priority needs deeper attention. Each starts with your context and ends with practical decisions and actions.
Explore where uncertainty could create value, and what must be true to pursue it.
Better informed growth and investment choicesConnect ambition, capacity and exposure to the real decisions behind major change.
Clear boundaries for confident transformationAssess the evidence behind strategic confidence and expose gaps in oversight.
Assurance that answers the board’s questionsA focused engagement to surface weak signals, test implications and agree priorities.
A concise emerging-risk view and action agendaExamine how governance works in practice, from accountability to decision-making.
A practical roadmap for stronger governanceConnect risk, assurance, actions and reporting, supported by a practical adoption approach.
Technology that supports your governance model
Boardroom briefing September 2026Scottish social housing
See earlier. Judge clearly.
Keep room to act.
A dedicated briefing and advisory approach for Scottish housing association boards. Connect the pressures on tenants, homes and finances to the decisions ahead.
Homes, tenants & trustSafe, healthy homes. Affordability. Changing needs.
Financial & operational resilienceCapacity, contractors and critical dependencies.
The next horizonClimate, energy, AI and cyber risk.
AGR turns the wider signals into organisation-specific board challenge, decision priorities and quarterly intelligence updates.
September 2026 edition · 24-page PDF · 5.3 MB
The Board Suite
Explore possible futures. Work through a difficult question. Find an independent perspective before a consequential choice.
Insight4GRC · AI-enabled risk intelligence
Bring risk, assurance, actions and reporting together. AGR shapes the governance approach and adoption; Insight4GRC provides the platform.
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Your adviser
When you work with AGR, you work directly with Richard Mackie.
Richard brings nearly 25 years of experience in governance, enterprise risk and assurance, including 13 years with RSM. He combines independent challenge with a practical understanding of how organisations make decisions and deliver change.
AGR brings that experience to your board: helping you ask the right questions, understand the evidence and turn insight into action.
Executive Intelligence
The board agenda is changing
Explore the implications for risk, opportunity, appetite and executive action.
Explore AI Intelligence FrontierAGR Insight 001 · Featured
Why do important issues remain unresolved? A practical way to identify the barriers and create progress.
Read the insightUnderstand the whole risk, beyond a single score.
Bring strategic upside into the risk conversation.
Recognise the signals that deserve attention now.
Keep governance useful as conditions change.
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Tell Richard about the risk, decision or governance challenge in front of you. Together, you can explore where AGR can help.