Welcome to the RCO team: Michelle Richards
ResilientCo has welcomed Michelle Richards to the team. Michelle has a wealth of experience in state and local government in council and...
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Gannawarra Community Recovery
It was a pleasure for the team to support Gannawarra Shire Council and the Community Recovery Committee in the development of a recovery...
Meet the RCO team - Maree Grenfell
ResilientCo is pleased to have Maree Grenfell working alongside of us as part of the ResilientCo network. Her expertise is in...
Data as a storyteller, not just a report
A multinational corporation contracted ResilientCo on two separate projects to help them with data management and quality challenges....
Meet the RCO team - Shannon Bakker
Specialty: Strategic communication and engagement is my speciality. It really means that I try and get the message across about complex...
Meet the RCO team: Nicola Willemsen
Name: Nicola Willemsen Specialty: Graphic design is my speciality, taking reports, structure diagrams and any written information and...
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...
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....
Meet the RCO team - David Eastham
Specialty: I specialise in facilitation and strategic planning. Whether it's delivering training, facilitating community workshops or...
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...
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...
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...
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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