
Enterprise risk management is no longer optional for health systems — and smaller practices can build a program too, one step at a time.

Chrystie Howard, ARM, CRM, CIC, is Vice President and Enterprise Risk Management Leader for leading global insurance brokerage Hub International’s Complex Risk Practice. In this role, she designs and leads the strategic risk platform dedicated to assessing business risks and threats to business objectives, while optimizing mitigation and financing strategies. Chrystie brings a streamlined and targeted approach to ERM that delivers practical and realistic output. Her focus is on implementing mitigation actions that have a postitive impact on an organization’s total risk profile.
Her risk management career began in actuarial consulting, evolving into risk advisory services and complex analysis of operational efficiency, human capital, alternative risk transfer, brand name equity and cyber/IT exposures.
Chrystie is a frequent speaker to industry and risk management groups, authors white papers and journal articles, and she serves on the advisory board of the Enterprise Risk Initiative for North Carolina State’s Poole School of Business.