Program Overview

Risk management: transforming threats into opportunities

Context

In a world where projects evolve quickly, proactive risk management is essential to anticipate threats and ensure success. It also allows for optimization of decision-making and smoother execution, in addition to reassuring stakeholders, which strengthens trust and collaboration within teams.

Objectives

• Explore the foundations of risk management
• Identify and analyze the risks of a project qualitatively and quantitatively
• Design and prioritize mitigation measures adapted to the nature of the risk

Target audience

Managers and professionals who gravitate near and far in a project-based work structure.

Access condition

• Prior activity mandatory: none
• Prior activity recommended: none

Content

Content

• Fundamentals of risk management
• Risks and opportunities
• Personal and organizational appetite for risk
• Risk register in a project
• Label a project risk
• Assessment of the extent of risks in a project on a continuum (certainty/uncertainty)
• Source of project risks
• Causes and consequences of risks
• Qualitative and quantitative risks
• Mitigation measures

Educational approach

Case study, concrete example, application exercise, interactive lecture, discussion, reflection.

Training people

BENOIT LALONDE Benoit Lalonde, MGP, MBA, Adm. A, PMP, CPM, OPM3, RMP, graduated with a master's degree in project management and a master's degree in business administration for practicing executives. He has been supporting leaders of private, municipal, public and parapublic organizations towards performance through alignment between strategy and execution for 30 years.

Prices and schedules

Prices

• Regular registration 30 days or less before the training: $1,275.00
• Early registration 30 days or more before the training: $1,148.00
• UdeS registration for student, graduate or employee: $1,148.00

Schedule

• Remote training: March 10, 12, 17 and 19, 2026
• Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Duration: 12 hours

University center for continuing education

The program is offered by the University Center for Continuing Education, in collaboration with the Laurent Beaudoin Center (School of Management).