Rob designs and delivers corporate security & crisis management programs across a variety of industries. This includes benchmarking, analysis and enhancement of processes to strengthen the resilience of our clients. Rob has amassed over three decades of private and public sector crisis management expertise in a variety highly complex and volatile scenarios. Rob is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer with over 27 years of experience in law enforcement with the RCMP in a variety of roles (drug enforcement, technological crime, national security & tactical unit command). During his law enforcement career, he had the privilege of serving with the Canadian Special Forces Command from 2006-2010, managing responses to domestic counter terrorism events as well as support for the war in Afghanistan.
Rob is currently the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) Canadian Chapter Chairman and named ISRM Fellow in 2024.
James is an agile, hands on senior leader with 35+ years experience in the global security and safety industry. Building on a well respected career within the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command; James entered the corporate arena as a senior advisor to organisations locally in Canada and the US, and across the world.
Combining strategic coaching with tactical advice, James works with executive and operational leadership to create and embed simple, reliable, and repeatable crisis management frameworks and behaviours. From policy and planning, to implementation and battle-tested leadership, James guides organisations on how to develop robust readiness and resilience protocols, offering practical coaching and mentorship to support their adoption and success.
James is known for being a curious leader, focused on growth and sustainable mindset shifts, taking bold action to deliver meaningful impact and change. He is an empathetic and present force for good, working with people’s strengths to increase their ability to collaborate and make sound judgment calls, especially within high-pressure environments. James’ more recent experience includes:
Coach/Crisis Management Expert: Co-facilitates annual senior leadership development week for the World Association of Nuclear Operators in the UK.
Residential Security Assessments (RSA): Sub-contracted to Crisis 24 to conduct RSA (physical and personal security assessment and mitigation of risks) of all global C-Suite members of a multi-national corporation.
Residential/Professional RSA: Sub-contracted to Crisis 24 to conduct RSA of high profile executive at risk.
Crisis Management Expert: Provides bespoke crisis management and leadership instruction and mentoring for bi-monthly mid-level leadership development program for global pharmaceutical company.
Paid Consultant: for several international Subject Matter Expert knowledge networks.
Samantha is an experienced executive coach and client-partner, able to design immersive learning experiences that draw out core value and deliver measurable impact and growth. Working across multiple industries, Samantha leads client programmes that gain industry recognition, resulting in tangible ROI and buisness awards that recognise a commitment to disrupting silos, questioning norms, driving inclusivity, and delivering sustainable behaviour change.
Samantha is respected and renowned for her powerful ability to challenge thinking and nurture strengths, She brings a high level of creativity and perspective-blending insight to support holistic growth, enabling leaders to enhance clarity and accelerate progress. Samantha brings ‘an infectious energy and a fearless outlook on change.’
Recent success includes:
International impact across the energy industry – winning industry recognition with international regulatory bodies for learning initiatives that stretch leadership expectations, improve working practices, and build global learning networks.
Executive team coaching in times of change – working with CEO, Executive, and Board members within several national organisations to increase collective accountability and organisational resilience during periods of heightened regulatory oversight and senior change.
Cascading senior leadership development to empower and challenge boundaries – delivering highly personalised programmes of support that help senior leaders to breakthrough sticky situations, aim higher, reassess decision-making, and create more space around and below to enable their teams to deliver more.
A master facilitator and coach, Kate works with leaders around the world, in both the physical and virtual spaces, to accelerate their leadership development . She specializes in designing and delivering impactful and relevant experiential leadership development programs – for all organizational leadership levels from new leaders through to executive teams. After two decades of senior operational and strategic HR roles in multiple industries and countries, Kate moved into leadership consultancy where she has been partnering with a wide range of clients to deliver solutions focussed on practical behavioural change.
