Kim Petersen

Independent RISK SME consultant, driving organizational decision intelligence and operational resilience. 30+ years of experience across energy, pharma, food&feed industries, advising executives on building future-ready supply chains, improving decision-making frameworks, and reducing risk exposure to enhance project & matured Asset performance on safety and revenue.

My unique background as Lead Investigator of 50+ major incidents, has given a rare insight into why failures occur and how cognitive biases can drive organizations toward reactive firefighting instead of proactive strategy. In a volatile business environment, I balance compliance overkill towards business criticality, by addressing decision bias and simplifying company Risk Management systems to proactively embrace uncertainty. Clarity in decision making equals Escalation Excellence to effectively protect executives from derivative risk noise.

Working in three phases (clean-up, transition and embedding), significant results manifests almost instantly. On average, 30% reduction of perceived critical workload during cleanup, followed by an additional 25-30% during transformation and embedding.

• Energy Sector, Oil & Gas offshore – Designed enterprise-wide risk governance model, cutting precieved critical workload by 30%
• Energy Sector, Renewable – Implemented decision-intelligence framework, reducing perceived critical workload by 60%, identifying two new critical potential upset scenarios, driving change to strategy
• Oil & Gas Major – Led 50+ incident investigations, preventing repeat failures and avoiding multimillion-dollar losses
• Tech Startup – Built governance model enabling transformation of Risk Management practices from reactiveness into proactiveness - ongoing

• While many professionals call themselves risk experts, few truly bridge the gap into decision intelligence. Risk management traditionally focuses on identifying and mitigating threats, but decision intelligence extends this by embedding structured, data-driven decision-making into the very core of strategy.
• This unique combination allows organizations not only to manage risks but also to seize opportunities and build decision systems that are repeatable, explainable, and future-ready.
• Having built an unique foundation of understanding why failures occur and that bias in decision making is a critical aspect to address across the organizations. Working the gab between visions and the later manifestation is where I strive and bring value by supporting organizations to shift from working the past into being prepared to be unprepared in the future.
• Experience:
• Supply Chain Management ie Operational Excellence & Risk Management in complex Organizations within Operations, Maintenance, Projects, HSSEQ and executive Continues Improvement (Energy, Pharma, Feed & Food). I differentiate by uniting both:
• Risk Expertise – deep understanding of governance, compliance, and enterprise risk management.
• Decision Intelligence – the science of turning data, analytics, and human judgment into better, faster, and more resilient decisions.
• The Key areas of experience are:
• Lead Investigator of +50 Incidents or severe near-misses
• Complex Safety Incidents (O&G, Renewable Energy, Feed & Food & Pharma)
• Financial Loss Scenarios (ERM level)
• Projects Delivery different than envisioned (Performance Perspective)
• Management System Deficiency (Risk) ie performance or collapse
• Enterprise Risk Management, incorporating ERM, Technical Risks registers and Opportunity registers into Escalation Excellence
• Due Diligence & Turnaround
• Business Continuity Management - Driving the BCM framework integration into the overall decision process.
• Auditing Digitalization (Setting focus on prevention of future potential failures ie Business Case to protect strategy and deliverables).