Financial Risk Management for Environmental Professionals

Join us for a virtual workshop designed to equip you with a practical working vocabulary and foundational framework for financial risk management, grounded firmly in real world environmental examples.

Ideal for professionals seeking a targeted introduction or a timely refresher, this 90 minute instructor led experience bridges financial concepts with environmental practice, helping participants better understand how financial risk influences projects, organizations, and climate related decision making. Through applied case examples and emerging tools, participants will gain insight into identifying, categorizing, and responding to financial risks common in environmental work, while also exploring how agentic AI approaches can support more resilient and optimized project workflows.

What you will learn:

• Framing Financial Risk: Why it matters to environmental professionals
• Risk Categories and Practical Taxonomy: Environmental case examples and applied insights
• Leveraging Agentic AI: Optimizing environmental project workflows
• Climate Related Financial Risk: Disclosure landscape and implications for practitioners
• Live Q&A and Actionable Resources

Participants will leave with practical takeaways, improved financial risk literacy, and resources to support informed decision making within environmental roles and organizations.

Speaker:

Tim Chan

With over 20 years of professional experience, Tim is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor. His career spans various energy sectors (oil and natural gas, electrical power, utilities), as well as the nonprofit sector. Tim has led teams of accountants and auditors in ensuring enterprise financial and risk controls.

Tim founded WAI Professional Corporation, where he serves as a fractional CFO, providing executive advisory and financial control support. He is also the co-founder of Untapped Energy Association, a federally registered nonprofit organization that upskills professionals in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence literacy.

Tim is an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and an assistant professor at Mount Royal University’s Bissett School of Business. He teaches undergraduate and post-graduate students in business technology management, accounting and digital transformation.