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Critical thinking: How to channel doubt and engage logic

Master a practical framework to outsmart cognitive bias, overcome team pressure, and protect your data-driven judgment.

Description

Ask any assurance professional, and they’ll tell you they’re a logical, data-driven, critical thinker.

But we’re still human, and in the world of modern risk, rigorous reasoning is rarely simple. The pressure to conform, the comfort of old templates, and cognitive blind spots constantly warp our judgment.

This session develops textbook definitions and takes a hard look at what’s actually blocking your logic. We’ll break down real-world, everyday audit scenarios, expose the common barriers to clear reasoning, and give you a practical framework to outsmart your own biases.

About the speakers

With over 35 years’ teaching, writing, publishing, and corporate experience in the US and Europe, Sara James provides report-writing training worldwide through her business, Getting Words to Work®. She has written numerous articles on language and reporting and spoken at national and international conferences. As a member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ Technical Content and Research Group, Sara provides resources for members in the UK and abroad. She is the author of the bestselling Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports and was one of Richard Chambers’ 2022 Internal Audit Beacon Award winners. In 2025, the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors awarded Sara the J. J. Morris Distinguished Service Award

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