Regulatory Strategy & Operating Models
Developing regulatory strategies and designing contemporary, risk-based operating models that build capability, enable proactive compliance, support strategic enforcement, and improve regulatory outcomes.
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Regulatory Strategy & Transformation
Modernising regulation to protect communities and deliver public value
RIS Advisory provides strategic advice and independent assurance to help regulators design, establish, transform and continuously improve modern regulatory systems.
We partner with regulators to translate strategy into action by embedding governance, operating models, capability and assurance to strengthen regulatory maturity and enable continuous improvement. Our executive leadership and practical experience help clients navigate complexity, manage risk, build public confidence, and deliver better regulatory outcomes and lasting public value.
How we help
Services
Regulatory Governance
Designing and embedding governance frameworks, decision rights and assurance arrangements to strengthen accountability, manage risk, and improve regulatory effectiveness.
Regulatory Capability and Culture
Building regulatory capability and culture by aligning organisational design, leadership, capability development and cultural transformation to strengthen performance, adaptability and regulatory effectiveness.
Regulatory Assurance
Designing and implementing regulatory assurance frameworks that strengthen governance, improve regulatory decision-making, embed independent assurance, and enable continuous improvement to deliver better regulatory outcomes.
Compliance and Enforcement Strategy
Designing, optimising and operationalising compliance and enforcement strategies to strengthen regulatory practice, enable risk-based and intelligence-led regulation, and improve regulatory outcomes.
Stakeholder Engagement and Public Trust
Developing stakeholder engagement and communication strategies that build trust, strengthen relationships, secure social licence, and enhance regulatory legitimacy and public confidence.
Customer-Centred Regulation and Digital Transformation
Designing customer-centred regulatory services and digital transformation initiatives that improve accessibility, transparency, user experience, digital maturity and regulatory effectiveness.
Regulatory Maturity Assessments
Conducting independent maturity assessments and diagnostic reviews to benchmark regulatory capability, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen regulatory performance, consistency and alignment with legislative purpose.
Our approach
Design. Transform. Assure.
See how we help regulators design, transform and assure, including how our Regulatory Assurance Framework assesses maturity, diagnoses causes and builds a prioritised action plan.
Intended outcomes
What clients can expect
- Better regulatory decisions and outcomes
- Stronger, risk-based and intelligence-led regulation
- Greater regulatory maturity and organisational performance
- Enhanced public trust, accountability and regulatory legitimacy
- Modern, trusted regulators delivering lasting public value
Experience
Founder and Principal of RIS Advisory, Anissa Levy, has led major regulators, including the NSW Environment Protection Authority as Acting Chair and CEO, and the Queensland Building and Construction Commission as CEO and Commissioner.
Her experience spans regulatory strategy, operating model design, governance, risk-based regulation, regulatory assurance, whole-of-agency reform and regulatory maturity. With experience across planning, environment, transport, infrastructure, energy, building, water and waste, she applies leading regulatory practice across diverse sectors and regulatory environments.
Reimagining regulation: trusted, adaptive and built for better decisions and outcomes.
Discuss this capability with Anissa Levyanissa@risadvisory.com.au+61 481 000 374Contact page
