Consulting
Research
Training
The art of successfully managing risk, uncertainty, and adaptation.
Our vision is for organisations and communities of all sizes, sectors, and types to understand and effectively manage risk and uncertainty, empowering them to adapt to the challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing world.
We are
resilience &
risk experts
Consulting
Research
Training
The art of successfully managing risk, uncertainty, and adaptation.
Our vision is for organisations and communities of all sizes, sectors, and types to understand and effectively manage risk and uncertainty, empowering them to adapt to the challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing world.
CRISIS RESPONSE & RECOVERY
Crises are inevitable. Get reassurance your organisation is ready. We can help you create, refine, or assess your crisis response plans and processes.
Organisational resilience
Change is the new constant.
Are you ready to adapt?
We can check your organisation's adaptive capacity and work with you to build your resilience.
Risk management & decision-making
Risk and uncertainty are the reality of doing business. We can work with your organisation to build robust and transparent decision-making tools to minimise loss and maximise opportunity.
Climate change risk, resilience, & adaptation
Addressing and adapting to climate change and its impacts is a priority for many organisations. We can help you plan for the future with climate change risk assessments and adaptation strategies.
Risk & resilience research
We design and deliver high-quality research and analysis investigating practical risk and resilience challenges. We also contribute to building knowledge through government-funded research programmes.
Crisis and emergency management training
We can support, inspire, and challenge you and your team to grow confidence and capability in emergency management, crisis leadership, risk management, business continuity, and organisational resilience.
Why work with us?
We are specialists in risk and resilience combining real-world practice with cutting-edge research. For 15+ years our team has been creating actionable resilience strategies for organisations.
We are based in Christchurch, New Zealand but work with funders and clients across the world.
People first
People are at the heart of our approach. We empower others to build risk and resilience in their teams and processes. We believe knowledge and capability building is the key to resilience.
Collective wisdom
With a range of professional backgrounds, we draw on the collective wisdom of the team to solve client challenges. Our multidisciplinary approach provides us with insights that deliver better solutions for your needs.
Tailored solutions
Using our range of tools and experience we create solutions for your organisation’s unique context and culture. We right-size solutions that meet the needs of our clients and projects.
Thought leaders
Along with our consulting experience, we have in-depth knowledge and understanding from a diverse range of publicly funded research projects. Our clients benefit from this breadth and depth of knowledge.
Who we work with
We work with a wide range of clients from different sectors, regions, and countries across the public sector, private sector, and local and national governments. These are some of the organisations we’re proud to work with.
LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHTS
CIMS PIM — RRANZ’s first public course a resounding success!
RRANZ offers the CIMS PIM course to make high-quality Public Information Management training accessible to everyone with a role to play in emergency management.
Recovery: still the least understood, least well-served CIMS function?
Of all the CIMS functions, disaster recovery is arguably still the least understood – and the least well served by training. ResOrgs is a proud partner in RRANZ, which is doing something about that.
Seeing our own backyard through new eyes
ResOrgs Director Tracy Hatton spent a week with Manaaki Scholarship recipients, facilitating the Manaaki Disaster Risk Reduction course that aims to build participants’ skills in risk assessment, emergency planning, and community resilience in Southeast Asia.
Beyond regulation: Incentives to enable seismic strengthening in New Zealand
What will it take to get more buildings seismically strengthened?
Insights on incentives from across New Zealand’s building sector.