PMI Houston Webinar - Beyond the Risk Register: Building Risk Awareness into Project Decisions

Beyond the Risk Register: Building Risk Awareness into Project Decisions

Meet the Speaker:

Russell Parker is one of the emerging authorities in project risk management and a retired U.S. Marine Corps Officer. As the owner of 44Risk PM, LLC and the creator behind “The Bearded PM” YouTube channel, Russ teaches project managers how to elevate their risk maturity with clear, practical methods grounded in real project environments.

He holds the PMP, PMI-RMP, and PMI-ACP certifications and serves as a PMI-ATP Instructor for both PMP and PMI-RMP exam prep. Russell likes to blend his high-stakes military planning experience with deep PMI-aligned expertise, helping teams move beyond checkbox risk processes toward proactive, strategic risk leadership.

Russell brings clarity, authenticity, and mission-focused teaching to every event.

Topic Synopsis:

Most project teams have a risk register. Far fewer have a risk-aware team... and that gap is where projects quietly absorb the risks they thought they'd already managed.

In this session, you'll learn a simple three-stage framework: Record, Recognize, Respond for moving beyond the register into real risk awareness.

What you will learn:

- How to identify the gap between documenting risks and actively managing them, and how to explain why a risk register alone does not constitute risk management.
- How to apply at least two practical techniques for building risk awareness into a team's existing meeting rhythm, without adding new processes or bureaucracy.
- How to evaluate when a project or organization would benefit from dedicated risk management expertise and how to support that path.

Whether you're a project manager, PMO leader, or building toward a risk specialty, you'll leave with a framework you can apply to your very next project.

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify the gap between documenting risks and actively managing them, and explain why a risk register alone does not constitute risk management.
• Apply at least two practical techniques for building risk awareness into a team's existing meeting rhythm, without adding new processes or bureaucracy.
• Evaluate when a project or organization would benefit from dedicated risk management expertise, and describe how the PMI-RMP® certification supports that role.

PDU Triangle: 

1.0 Ways of Working PDU

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