Overview:
This CPD course focuses on helping professionals shift from traditional compliance work to higher-value advisory services in response to declining compliance margins.
The course explores emerging advisory opportunities for 2026 (particularly in UK GAAP, ESG, and risk), while tackling the increasing digital and regulatory pressures facing clients. Attendees will build confidence in articulating the value of advisory services and applying effective pricing and engagement approaches, enhancing overall skills in advisory, strategic thinking, and commercial awareness.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify advisory opportunities in 2026
- Transition from compliance to value-added services
- Communicate advisory value to clients
Course outline:
- Declining compliance margins
- High-demand advisory areas (UK GAAP, ESG, risk)
- Client digital and regulatory challenges
- Pricing and engagement strategies
Speaker:
Rob McCusker
Professor Rob McCusker is a transnational crime consultant providing strategic and policy advice to international governments and organisations in countries ranging from Cameroon, Jamaica and Somalia to Denmark, Afghanistan and Singapore, on cross-border crime, corruption, corporate governance, international security and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. Rob is a retained expert for Interpol (on ‘innovation and foresight’ in relation to future organised crime), a retained expert for the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, Council of Europe (on ‘anti-corruption and good governance’, ‘anti-money laundering’, ‘combating organized crime’ and ‘combating terrorism and its funding’) and has been a designated expert for the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice since 2005 (on ‘economic crime, including money laundering’)