Collaboration in a Fragmented World — Lessons from Brittany

Collaboration in a Fragmented World — Lessons from Brittany

I am spending the first days of the year in Brittany, in La Baule.

Jogging along the beach, with the Atlantic at eye level, I was reminded of something deeply familiar here: sailing. This region has produced extraordinary sailors — the Pajot and Peyron families among them — who have circumnavigated the world on some of the most advanced sailing vessels ever built.

And there is something essential in sailing that mirrors the reality of modern governance.

The Two Forms of Collaboration

Sailing embodies a dual form of collaboration:

1. Curiosity and openness to the world

Setting out to reach other continents, cultures, and ways of living — knowing that the world cannot be understood from a single shore.

2. Deep multidisciplinary teamwork

Every successful campaign brings together engineers, designers, financiers, sponsors, lawyers, and navigators.
They build the vessel, secure funding, resolve disputes, and ultimately compete at the highest level.

This is not symbolic collaboration — it is survival-level collaboration.

What Large Organizations Can Learn

When I look at non-financial risk in global organizations, I see the same pattern.

Real risk decisions are never purely legal, purely compliance-driven, or purely financial. They sit at the intersection of:

• regulation
• capital
• operations
• strategy

Organizations that manage this intersection well are those that align supply chain, insurance, legal, compliance, finance, and operations under a clear orchestration — often led by a CRO or GC, in close partnership with the CEO and CFO.

This is where the real work happens.
This is where exposure is reduced — or silently amplified.

How We Approach It at GlisRisk

At GlisRisk, this is exactly the type of collaboration we embrace.

Our mission is to systematically bridge the regulatory world and the capital world, enabling boards to answer three critical questions with confidence:

1. Where should we invest?
2. Where should we mitigate?
3. Where should we avoid over-engineering risk?

This approach transforms risk management into decision-grade insight — not activity reporting.

Navigating Forward

In a world becoming more volatile, fragmented, and exposed, collaboration is not a slogan.

It is the only way to navigate forward with clarity.

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