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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...


Benchmarking resilience as a business
ResilientCo was recently engaged by a retail property group to deliver a Community Resilience Plan that aligns with Green Star...


Becoming DisasterSmart
ResilientCo is working with municipalities through our DisasterSmart program to help them prepare for, manage and recover from complex...


Supporting resilience in communities
A collaborative program aims to strengthen the capability of an ‘at risk’ community to respond to future shocks and stresses such as...


Navigating the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) domain
Companies of all sizes are operating in more pressured, more scrutinised, and ever-more complex environments. Having a strong...


Exercise WhiteClaw – supporting communities
The 2019/20 Victorian fires, which had a devastating impact on areas in the North East, tested the ability of smaller municipalities in...


Welcome to ResilientCo!
Welcome to ResilientCo! We’ve been working behind the scenes on a name change that better represents the work we do, the way we do it,...


Emergency Management Planning
Legislation was introduced by the Victorian Government in 2020 to provide greater cohesion through integrated arrangements for emergency...


Yarra Ranges Storm Event
Devastating storms struck communities across Victoria in June 2021, with a profound impact on the communities of the Yarra Ranges. The...


Meet the team at ResilientCo
Two of Australia’s pre-eminent experts in community resilience, emergency management, sustainable development and environmental...
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