Certification

GRC Professional (GRCP)

 About Governance Dynamics
Governance Dynamics is a boutique professional
services firm focused on providing governance, risk
management, compliance, forensics, and
technology consultancy and training services. It is
led by seasoned professionals with a long track
record in the Middle East and Overseas.

Governance Dynamics offers fit-for-purpose

solutions designed to enhance governance within
organizations.

Governance Dynamics also offers GRC Professional

(Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional) and
GRC Auditor (Open Compliance and Ethics Group)
authorized training.

Governance Dynamics is one of the first Global Training Partners for OCEG since 2018 and the first
Authorized Training Partner in the Middle East & Africa.

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 Exam Preparation Workshop
Prepare for a Certification!

A globally recognized GRC

Certification from the Non-
Profit Organization that
invented GRC: OCEG

GRC Professional (GRCP)

 About OCEG

Open Compliance and Ethics Group is a non-profit think tank established in

the United States, with over 120,000 members. OCEG empowers its members through
helpful content, standards, research, and certifications.

The acronym GRC was first coined by the OCEG membership as a shorthand reference
to the critical capabilities that must work together to achieve Principled Performance —
the capabilities that integrate:
180+ 3,600+
countries cities
§ Governance
6 120,000+
§ Strategy continents members
§ Management
§ Assurance of performance
§ Risk
§ Compliance activities

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 Program Description

A Structured Approach
The GRC Professional (Governance, Risk, and Compliance Professional) Certification applies to
developing executives and aspiring leaders. It ensures that an individual has the core
understanding of GRC processes and capabilities, and the skills to integrate governance,
performance management, risk management, internal control, and compliance activities.
The GRC Professional Certification gives assurance
that the Risk Professional has core knowledge, skills
and understanding of managing and advising on
risk, internal controls, key compliance matters and
functions compliance, and how these must be
integrated for effective and appropriate
governance.

Every Business Executive should

aspire to earn the GRCP
certification.

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 Program Description

What does the GRCP Workshop cover?

Principles, outcomes, and key terms
Prove that you know how to communicate across disciplines using a
common and unambiguous language.

Core components, practices, and activities

Demonstrate understanding of the 4 components and 20 elements that
comprise the GRC Capability Model.

Relationship of GRC to disciplines

Discuss how GRC incorporates the governance, management and audit
of strategy, performance, risk, and compliance.

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 Program Description

How to get certified?

The GRCP Workshop is the first step in the certification process. Attendees shall pursue
the GRCP Certification, which requires:
Being an All-Access Pass (AAP) Member of OCEG
The All-Access Pass provides access to the online exam.
Preparing for the GRCP Exam
The GRCP Workshop helps attendees prepare for the exam to get certified by OCEG.
Taking the Exam and Passing It
Attendees can access the online exam anywhere and anytime. They are able to
retake the exam six times per year to pass it. The exam is "open book" which means
that they may use resources while taking the exam.
The GRC Professional (GRCP) certification demonstrates that you can apply GRC. The
exam covers awareness and application of concepts found in the GRC Capability Model.

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 GRC Certifications

How to maintain your GRC Certifications?

q Maintain an OCEG All-Access Pass
q Complete 8 hours of continuing professional education (CPE) every calendar year

The All-Access Pass includes all CPE credits for maintaining your GRC certifications.

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 Learning Objectives
“A GRC Professional is someone who spends substantial time helping an organization
achieve principled performance by leading, planning, performing, enabling,
integrating or auditing governance, strategy, performance management, risk
management, internal control, compliance or ethics activities.”

ü Understanding the core concepts related to governance, risk management, and compliance
(GRC)
ü Performing with principles that are effective, efficient, agile, ethical, and accountable
ü Learning how to integrate values, vision, mission, strategy, risk, and compliance
ü Understanding, defining, and enhancing organizational culture as it relates to performance,
risk, and compliance
ü Understanding data, communication, and technology’s role in a GRC capability
ü Understanding how to use ongoing monitoring and continuous improvement of GRC activities
through metrics and measurement
ü Learning how to provide assurance on the GRC activities by using a risk-based audit approach

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 GRCP Workshop Outline
GRC Capability Model Introduction
Perform Component
•GRC? Why Now?
•Recent Business Trends & The Big Picture • Controls
•Protector/ Preserve Value & Protector Mindset/Skillset • Policies
•Definition of Principled Performance & Principles • Communication
•Key Definitions • Education
•GRC Definition & Meaning
• Incentives
•10 Universal Outcomes of Principled Performance
• Notification
•GRC Concepts, Design Drivers, Roles & Responsibilities
•GRC Maturity Model & Total Performance Model
• Inquiry
• Response
Learn Component
Review Component
•External Context
•Internal Context
• Monitoring
•Culture
• Assurance
•Stakeholders
• Improvement
Align Component
GRCP Exam Preparation
•Direction
•Objectives
•Identification Questions & Answers
•Assessment
•Design

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 GRC: Providing a Competitive
Advantage

Governance

Strategy
Management & Risk Compliance
Performance

Assurance

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 GRC: A Transformational
Opportunity

From To

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 Workshop Delivery
Languages: Training Material
ü English or Arabic
ü Governance Dynamics has taken the initiative to
translate and offer the GRCP Program in Arabic in
collaboration with OCEG

Instructors: Attendee
Red Book
Slides
ü Seasoned Trainers
ü Bilingual
ü Experts in the Subject Matter
ü Value Added through Real Life Examples
ü Make Sure You Get More Than What You Expect

Attendee Study Tips &

Workbook Mock Exam

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 Why Become GRC Certified
Because the certifications enhance and integrate all of the key disciplines that create a
well-rounded GRC Professional!

GRC Certifications Enhance and GRC Certifications Enhance GRC Certifications Enhance
Integrate Your Technical Skills Communication Compensation

GRC Certifications help you improve Because they help you speak the same Salary research shows that jobs with
across all GRC disciplines by filling gaps language as your peers in other reference "GRC" report 34% increased
in your education or experience. important GRC-related departments. compensation.

ü Governance ü Understand what other GRC ü Study done by the Institute of

ü Risk departments "do“ Internal Auditors (IIA) showed that
certified internal auditors' salaries are
ü Audit up to 40% higher than those without
ü Anticipate the needs of your peers
ü Compliance certification
ü Ethics ü Speak the same language
ü Report from the HR Certification
ü Technology Institute states that "Of the four types
of credentials that an HR professional
might hold—an undergraduate
degree, a graduate degree, a
certificate, or a professional
certification—the professional
certification was felt to be by far the
most beneficial”

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 GRC: A Revolutionary Solution

GRC incorporates:
ü Governance,
ü Risk management,
ü and Compliance, into an integrated, cohesive and connected structure.

An effective GRC strategy helps organizations in:

ü Time-saving
ü Risk awareness
ü Informed decision-making
ü Improving and measuring performance

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 GRC For Everyone
…at different levels in the whole organization

1. Governance, Strategy, and Performance Management Personnel: provide a

foundation to define and measure strategies, tactics, and progress toward
objectives.
2. Risk Personnel: provide a foundation for helping an organization address
uncertainty as it drives toward objectives.
3. Audit Personnel: provide a foundation to provide assurance to management, the
board, and other stakeholders that the organization is achieving objectives,
addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity.
4. Compliance Personnel: provide a foundation for helping an organization act with
integrity and stay within the mandated and voluntary boundaries as it drives
toward objectives.
Integrating all facets of an organization into an overall GRC capability ensures that
activities are aligned with business objectives, strategies, risk management, legal,
finance, IT, and culture.
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 Governing the future today

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Founder & Chairman Executive Director
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