An Operational Resilience Advisory Firm
I ran response from the World Bank's Global Watch Desk for our offices in 188 countries — through the Haiti earthquake and other major natural disasters, the Arab Spring, coup attempts, cyber attacks, kidnappings, terrorist bombings, protests, political unrest, and anything else that challenged our ability to keep the business running. Then I spent a decade at Deloitte turning that experience into programs for clients that regulators accept. At The Crisis Studio, we specialize in building the pressure test that finds where your executive and operational teams break, and deliver it in a room where that's safe. Then we help you fix what broke.
Too many exercises are built around generic scenarios and predetermined discussion questions. They are a line item, a compliance checkbox, and forgotten the moment the After-Action Report is filed. Our live sessions are built to surface exactly where your governance, your decisions, and your people will actually fail under pressure. We then provide evidence you can act on, not just a memory of an interesting afternoon, and help your organization remediate the issues uncovered during the exercise.
Every scenario is drawn from your critical services, dependencies, decision authorities, stakeholders, and existing plans. Explore a few in depth:
Four service families, from the exercise itself to the program work, recovery readiness, and advisory support that follow it.
Custom scenarios built from your real critical services and dependencies, facilitated live, so leadership sees exactly where decisions, governance, and communications break under pressure.
The Pressure Test · executive preparedness · board exercises
Understand what your organization can't afford to lose, then build the program and governance to keep it running.
Assessments · business impact analysis · critical service mapping · program development · governance
Prove your systems, platforms, and third parties can actually recover, not just that a plan says they will.
Disaster recovery testing · third-party resilience · platform implementation · Scenario & Recovery Playbooks
Senior support to close the gaps an exercise or a real incident reveals, and to stand beside leadership when it matters.
Program remediation · fractional leadership · post-incident reviews · executive crisis advisory
See my full background and a representative sample of the engagements I have led throughout my career.
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Exercises often require access to crisis plans, escalation structures, technology dependencies, executive roles, and vulnerabilities. That material is handled in confidence, and NDAs are available on request.
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