Leadership service

Incident Readiness and Executive Response Advisory

Clarify who decides what, when escalation is mandatory, and how leadership coordinates under pressure.

Executive incident readiness focused on decision ownership and escalation discipline

This engagement defines decision ownership, escalation triggers, and cross-functional coordination before an incident forces those questions under pressure.

We walk leaders through realistic scenarios and document the response model: authority boundaries, timing expectations, and coordination handoffs.

Built from incident leadership in high-consequence environments where authority and timing determine outcomes.

Common triggers

  • You have an IR plan, but decision ownership and escalation criteria are implicit
  • Executives get pulled in too late, or too early, because triggers are unclear
  • Legal, communications, IT, and security are not aligned on who owns which decisions
  • Past incidents exposed conflicting direction, slow escalation, or avoidable disruption
  • You rely on insurers, outside counsel, or third-party responders, but coordination is ad hoc

What you get

  • Leadership response model: decision ownership and delegated authority
  • Escalation thresholds and triggers tied to business impact
  • Coordination map across IT/security, legal, communications, insurers, and vendors
  • Executive tabletop and after-action readout focused on governance gaps
  • Documented decisions and principles to support consistent execution
Follow-on engagement

After decision ownership and escalation are clarified, simulations can validate coordination and escalation timing under realistic conditions.

Additional reading
Scope incident readiness

Informed by firsthand incident leadership in high-consequence, mission-critical environments, this advisory focuses on decision ownership, escalation discipline, and cross-functional coordination when time and authority are constrained.

Share what leadership needs to be ready to decide, and who must be in the room. We’ll reply with a recommended approach, a pricing range, and what we need to confirm scope.

Pricing reflects organizational complexity, stakeholder breadth, and the depth of senior advisory required to establish clear, defensible decision authority.

What affects scope and effort
  • Stakeholders: business units, regions, and executive participants
  • Decision surface area: incident types and impact scenarios covered
  • Authority clarity: how defined or contested ownership is today
  • External dependencies: counsel, insurer, regulators, customers, third parties
  • Depth of walkthrough: comms, containment tradeoffs, disclosure posture

How this fits into the bigger picture

Incident readiness is a leadership responsibility. This service defines decision ownership and escalation mechanics so operational response can execute without waiting on unclear authority.

Leadership
Clarifies risk, priorities, and decision paths, and maintains continuity as the organization evolves.
Operations
Turns decisions into delivery, enforces follow-through, and escalates when execution drifts or stalls.
Assurance
Uses assessments and testing to reduce uncertainty and inform decisions, not to create checkbox confidence.
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