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Rethinking Risk: Unlocking Long-Term Value (Quality Live 2025)

Session information: Helping organisations understand and mitigate quality risk has always been core to quality management. In this session the panel examines how organisations and quality practitioners should be approaching risk in the modern context, consider risk blind spots and look at the balance between appetite and innovation.

Speaker information:

  • Nina Abbassi, Director, Abbassi Ltd
  • Tony Blanch, Quality and Business Improvement Director, Network Rail
  • Stephen Smith, Co-Founder, Practical QA/RA

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Duration: 54 minutes

Price: CQI/IRCA members: £15, Non-members: £20

Take advantage of the full Quality Live 2025 experience with the Complete Conference Bundle – get access to every sessions* and save up to £31. This exclusive offer also includes a bonus recording of Professor Michael Mainelli’s keynote speech, available only through this bundle and not sold separately.

*'Going Beyond: Where Do Paradigm Shifts Lead Quality Management?' is not available due to the interactive format of the session.

Nina Abbassi; B.Sc. Hons, CQP, FCQI, IRCA Certified Principal Auditor; founder and Director of Abbassi Ltd since 1993; is a Consultant, Trainer and Auditor. She brings over 3 decades of innovative and result-driven expertise in business quality, performance improvement, social responsibility, and sustainable development across various industries. Her voluntary contributions include serving on the CQI Board of Trustees, judge at the International Quality Awards, expert member on several British and International Standard committees, including the ISO Working Group WG29 for the revision of ISO 9001:2015; representing the CQI.

Tony Blanch is the Quality and Business Improvement Director with Network Rail. He also has over 35 years of experience in the construction industry. He has knowledge of continuous improvement (Lean and EFQM), IT, commercial and management systems, information security, business continuity, collaborative working and asset management. Tony’s current work at Network Rail is about improving how business is managed to give clarity and confidence that they are doing the right things in the best possible way, with the least chance of things going wrong. Tony’s work aims to enable the organisation to operate efficiently and effectively, learn as a business, improve safety, become more agile and responsive, and, in turn, deliver increased value for their passengers.

Stephen has over 25 years in the medical device industry with positions ranging from QA Auditor to Quality and Regulatory Director. He is now running a Quality and Regulatory consultancy for the medical device industry. Previously he has worked with many devices in large and small organisations from medical disinfectants to surgical robots. Stephen has PhD in Quality Management, MSc in Medical Diagnostics, an MSc and BSc in Geography and Environmental Science and is a Fellow of CQI and on the CQI Content Advisory Panel.

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