Exposure
What is at stake, for whom and across which parts of the organisation?
The Multi Aspect Assessment Model
Beyond risk scores. Understand the whole risk.
The challenge
A single score can make a complex risk look more certain than it is.
The Multi Aspect Assessment Model gives boards a fuller view of exposure by examining the different characteristics that shape a risk—not just likelihood and impact.
Instead of debating whether a rating should be red or amber, the board can discuss the characteristics that would change the decision.
The AGR lens
A practical model for a better board conversation.
Four connected perspectives move discussion from simplified reporting to clearer judgement and proportionate action.
Velocity
How quickly could conditions change or consequences emerge?
Control
How much influence does the organisation genuinely have?
Connectivity
What dependencies, concentrations and secondary effects could amplify the risk?
In the boardroom
Questions that move the discussion forward.
Which aspect of this risk is least understood?
What could make the exposure accelerate?
Where are we relying on control that we do not truly possess?
What changes
Insight becomes decision confidence.
The model is valuable when it improves the quality, pace and usefulness of leadership judgement.
Richer board discussion
More proportionate action
Fewer false certainties
Clearer prioritisation
Richard’s perspective
Governance earns its place when it improves the decision—not when it simply records that a process was followed.
AGR’s Insight Series is shaped by years of working alongside boards and executive teams in complex, high-consequence environments. Each model is designed to make difficult conversations clearer and practical action more deliberate.
Richard Mackie
Founder and CEO, AGR