Our Proactive Approach to Risk Management
At Rivers Risk Consulting, we are dedicated to providing exceptional risk mitigation services that assist our clients in achieving their governance goals by proactively identifying and managing operational issues.
We advocate ‘good governance’ by empowering organizations to recognize and minimize negative risk factors that may impact the delivery of services and programming. By actively identifying and managing risk, we help improve your financial integrity and help you ensure operational efficiency.
We believe in a collaborative approach to consulting by collaborating closely with clients to understand their needs and develop solutions together.
Our goal is to build long-lasting relationships with our clients by offering personable, relatable solutions that are cost effective and achievable.
Our approach to risk management is to understand what is important to an organization, capitalize on its strengths, and help work through operational weaknesses we may identify together.
Our partnerships are structured to proactively manage risk and support success, by ensuring clients are risk equipped to effectively address programming challenges.
Our Team Risk Champion
Marilyn L Rivers, cpcu arm aic
Marilyn Rivers is the Principal of Rivers Risk Consulting. She is nationally recognized as a strategic risk management professional known for establishing best practice governance standards for the public sector. She has a combined thirty-five years of experience managing operational risk in both the public and private sectors on a local and national level. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Clarkson University and a Masters in Secondary Education from Tufts University. Marilyn has professional designations as a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Risk Management (ARM) and Associate in Claims (AIC) from The Institutes.
Marilyn provides risk management education to insurance and risk professional organizations and government agencies via podcasts, webinars and in person training. She has historically assisted in the resurgence of PRIMA Institute – the Public Risk Management Association’s center for excellence for the education of public risk management professionals and is a past recipient of PRIMA’s Risk Manager of the Year and the PRIMA President’s Award for Excellence awarded as a result of her leadership and stewardship of the organization’s education and training activities.
Marilyn is nationally known as a consensus builder. When the going gets tough, she digs in to help her partners work together to persevere in difficult situations.