He sees the whole system
Strategy, governance, culture, assurance and emerging risk are considered together, so the board sees the connections others miss.
Founder and CEO of AGR
The judgement boards turn to when the stakes are high.
Richard Mackie helps boards and executive teams see change earlier, ask better questions and make confident decisions when the route forward is not obvious.
Richard Mackie
Founder and CEO, AGR
Chair, IRM Ireland Regional Group
Certified Fellow, Institute of Risk Management
Why Richard
Independent challenge.
Commercial judgement.
A clearer path forward.
Richard brings the rare combination of board level perspective, deep risk expertise and practical delivery.
He does not arrive with a generic model or a predetermined answer. He works alongside leaders to expose the assumptions shaping a decision, connect risk with opportunity and focus the board on what matters most.
The result is sharper debate, stronger oversight and governance that supports ambition rather than slowing it down.
What Richard brings to the room
Clarity that changes the conversation.
He makes risk commercially useful
Risk becomes a sharper lens for choices, investment and opportunity, not a compliance exercise or a report that arrives too late.
He creates constructive challenge
Difficult questions are surfaced with independence and judgement, strengthening alignment without creating noise or theatre.
He turns insight into action
Boards leave with clear priorities, practical next steps and greater confidence in the decisions they are there to make.
What leaders say
One of those meetings that makes you stop and rethink. Richard’s insight has genuinely shifted how I see risk management: practical, thoughtful and focused on forward thinking and making better decisions.
Where Richard changes the conversation
Judgement that becomes useful at the point of decision.
Two anonymised examples of the situations in which boards have valued Richard’s independent perspective.
A strategic programme had momentum but lacked shared confidence.
Richard helped the board separate genuine exposure from general anxiety, expose the assumptions beneath the investment case and agree the conditions required to proceed with confidence.
Sharper trade-offs. Clearer boundaries. A decision the organisation could act on.A persistent issue was repeatedly reported but never truly resolved.
Richard reframed the problem as a governance and decision-system challenge, bringing ownership, dependencies and assurance gaps into one board-level view.
Less status reporting. Better accountability. A credible route to resolution.Leadership beyond AGR
Helping shape the profession.
Richard contributes to the wider development of governance and risk through professional leadership, teaching, writing and industry engagement.
Chair, IRM Ireland Regional Group
Leading professional engagement and thought leadership across Ireland’s risk community.
Certified Fellow of the IRM
Recognition of sustained contribution, expertise and leadership in governance and risk.
Boards, international institutions and regulated environments
Experience shaped where scrutiny is intense, choices are consequential and assurance must withstand challenge.
Featured podcast
Risk Culture: Bringing Risk Appetite to Life
Hear Richard explore how organisations can move risk appetite beyond policy statements and make it meaningful in everyday decisions, behaviours and culture.
A point of view built for now
Current risk matters.
What comes next matters more.
Richard’s work is grounded in modern risk intelligence. He helps boards connect today’s exposure with emerging signals and future possibilities across AI, geopolitical change, supply chains, opportunity, transformation and assurance.
It is a perspective designed for leaders who need more than reassurance. They need the foresight and confidence to shape what happens next.
Bring sharper judgement to the table
Your next board conversation could change the direction of the organisation.
Make sure it asks the right questions.