AI Governance Webinar

Free Live Webinar

From Risk to AI Adoption:
A Seven-Step Approach to AI Governance

For compliance, risk, legal and HR leaders in banking, insurance and financial services

Tuesday, October 27, 2026  |  11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

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Your Speaker

Michelle Strasburger

Founder and CEO, AI Rebooted

An HR executive with more than two decades of experience, Michelle helps organizations lead on AI governance, compliance and workforce readiness. She has advised organizations from startups to Fortune 500s, was named one of Mogul’s Top 100 CHROs in 2023, and founded HR Rebels, a global community of more than 1,500 HR professionals. She holds SPHR, GPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications.

Presented by ACRA Training and AI Rebooted. Everyone who registers gets the full recording afterward.

Why this session matters

Financial institutions already manage some of the toughest regulatory demands of any industry. AI is adding a new layer of risk, and it is moving faster than most governance structures can keep up. Employees are using AI to draft client communications, summarize meetings, analyze data and support decisions in lending, underwriting, fraud detection and customer service, often outside formal oversight.

Many firms respond by restricting AI. That rarely stops it. It pushes the activity out of sight, where it is harder to document and defend in an exam or audit. In this session Michelle presents a seven-step governance framework, grounded in NIST standards, that gives financial services leaders a practical path from reactive risk management to governed, confident AI adoption.

What you’ll learn

• How to build cross-functional governance that aligns compliance, legal, risk, security and workforce leadership
• How to apply a risk-based approach to AI use cases, separating everyday productivity use from high-risk use in credit, customer outcomes and regulated communications
• The documentation and audit trails examiners, auditors and boards will expect
• How to identify and manage shadow AI, including unapproved tools and sensitive customer data in prompts
• How to treat vendor and embedded AI as part of third-party risk management
• The human side of adoption: training, manager readiness, communication and employee trust
• How to move from a successful pilot to firm-wide adoption without losing control

Who should attend

Compliance, risk, legal, audit, CISO, data privacy and HR leaders in banking, insurance, wealth management and financial services.

What’s on the agenda

• The governance gap: why restriction alone fails in financial services
• The regulatory landscape: what examiners and regulators are watching, and where existing obligations meet AI
• The Seven-Step Framework: a walkthrough of each step with financial services examples
• The human dimension: shadow AI, manager readiness and building trust
• Live Q&A with Michelle