Increasing understanding through exercising
As part of any exercise we run, no matter what the objective, we start and end with a quick survey to gauge understanding and confidence...
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Meet the RCO team - Brett Ellis
Name: Brett Ellis Specialty: Resilience building in organisations and communities. Helping others to think outside the square. Bringing...
Designing for your worst-case plausible scenario
When we design exercises for local government and corporate clients, we’re looking for the most plausible, worst case scenario that will...
Meet the RCO team - Kate Siebert
Specialty: Public value in complex and wicked situations. This means it I lean into today’s challenges, and help to design for tomorrow....
Outcomes that matter - mining for emergency management gold
Legislation changes in Victoria are providing the opportunity for Municipal Emergency Management Planning Committees to become truly...
Meet the RCO team - David Eastham
Specialty: I specialise in facilitation and strategic planning. Whether it's delivering training, facilitating community workshops or...
Leading in Disaster Recovery
Leadership in recovery is different. Leading in Disaster Recovery A Companion Through the Chaos is a New Zealand Red Cross developed...
Meet the RCO team - Deborrah Jepsen
Specialty: I turn strategies and ideas into real on the ground projects for communities. With a focus currently in public safety, I work...
Meet the RCO team - Madelyn Lackman
Specialty: I specialise in disaster resilience, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development practices and principles. I work with...
Meet the RCO team - Natalie Staaks
Specialty: I’m a crisis and disaster resilience specialist. That means I work with clients and communities across a number of usually...
Connecting business continuity to community
Business continuity is not often top of mind when communities, councils and statutory authorities are plunged into disaster response. The...
The story of Millgrove and building a more resilient community
The Millgrove community in Victoria is in the top 5 most vulnerable communities in the country that is exposed to the threat of bushfires...
Meet the RCO team - Tia Baptista
Tia's specialty: I specialise in project management and stakeholder engagement; both firmly grounded within the disaster resilience and...
Meet the RCO team - Mirna Arivalagan
Mirna's specialty: I’m a data and analytics specialist. What this means is that I am able to gather information from various sources and...
Community as active emergency participants
The importance of community knowledge and connection in emergencies came through loud and clear in interviews with Gannawarra Shire...
Moving from response into recovery
Local government is best placed to support their communities through disasters. That’s true, but it also creates an expectation by the...
Surf Coast building on the strengths of the systems in place
We’ve spent a bit of time at the beach recently (kind of literally), working with a couple of very switched on councils keen to...
Dreaming big in Millgrove for a resilient community
The small community of Millgrove, in Victoria, is part of a nationwide project funded by the Minderoo Foundation that promotes...
It's a marathon not a sprint
Reflections from ResilientCo Managing Director Brett Ellis : It’s a marathon not a sprint. I’ve heard those words a lot in the Ganawarra...
Local government in partnership
Recently the ResilientCo team headed out to Colac to conduct a tabletop discussion exercise with the Otway District Emergency Management...
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