Internal Auditors – To get your seat at the table you must speak the right language.
Executives and boards care about strategic execution.
They’ll tolerate discussions of risks, controls, and compliance—but only when connected to outcomes they own and priorities they’ve set.
If you want to become more influential, help them build a performance culture that has:
- Strong accountability.
- Strategic alignment.
- Reliable performance feedback.
- Predictable outcomes.
These are the things they care about.
How TRM impacts your audit work
TRM doesn’t change your tools or reduce your rigor. It changes your mindset—selecting and executing audit projects based on your organization’s strategic context. This is where risks and controls become relevant. And weak governance can sink the ship.
It’s where your insights can add real value.
As your team gets comfortable with TRM, project scopes will become clearer. Audit programs will evolve. Recommendations will be more meaningful.
And it’s entirely within your professional judgment—you don’t need anyone’s permission to start.
You just need to understand how TRM drives governance and performance. That’s the expertise that reframes your influence.
That’s your path to the table.
TRM includes a learning path that is designed specifically for internal auditors. But I want to be clear – there are no standard checklists. No maturity models. No quick answers.
To become an influential advisor, you need to understand how TRM drives performance and governance.
You have full access to The Foundation and The Framework. You’ll pick up some ideas that you can use right away. And, if you stop there, you’ll undoubtedly forget whatever you learned within a week. Unfortunately, that’s the nature of focused learning.
The real opportunity is taking advantage of our ‘spaced learning’.
When you register, you’ll receive an email every other week. It will touch on a sequential TRM concept. It will provide links into the website where these ideas are explained in more detail. It might contain curated links to other helpful leadership and productivity articles. The point is that it’s spread out over time. It’s iterative. It’s cumulative. It reinforces concepts. It’s how you build meaningful habits.
If this sounds like something you’ve been waiting for …