Approach

Preparedness is a mindset, not a product.

Four ideas carry most of our work. They are the reason organizations come back to us after the first engagement ends.

Proven approach

Preparedness Without Paranoia®

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A proven approach that moves individuals and organizations from confusion to clarity, from vulnerability to resilience. From the classroom to the boardroom, it replaces single-threaded tactical fixes with something more durable: education, awareness, and a platform built for long-term preparedness and informed decision-making.

Fuciferi Versuiti®

Crafty Bastards® Workshops

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An intensive discovery process to identify and exploit the full spectrum of ideas. CBW provides a dedicated environment of learning and discovery, and an in-depth exploration of highly complex problem sets that threaten global stability and economic resiliency — from disease to conflict to infrastructure warfare. The modus operandi is the combining, and often recombining, of disparate talent at a visceral level. The goal of each workshop is to identify strategic approach vectors that are realistic, comprehensive and actionable.

Living repository

The Knowledge Vault

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A living repository of state-of-the-practice capability across the public and private sector, organized around preparedness, response, recovery and resiliency for organizations large and small. Preparedness is a mindset which, when enabled and practiced, transcends all areas of life: where we work, where we live, where we serve, where we learn, where we travel and where we seek recreation.

Threat continuum

The Now, The Next, The After Next

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Threat vectors and actors change and evolve quickly. We look at the world along a continuum of the current threat (the now), the near term (the next), and the type of threat which will likely be orthogonally different (the after next).

Thinking differently

“What if we stopped scanning the horizon with binoculars and began instead examining our own decision-making and behavior through the most powerful of microscopes?”

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005 — the question behind Crafty Bastards.