Does your leadership team know how to make coordinated decisions under pressure? CrisisLead® helps build a risk-ready culture — leaders at every level who understand their role in organizational readiness, reducing the human error behind most security incidents.
CrisisLead® is led by Christopher Stitt, co-author of the Organisational Risk Culture Standard (ORCS) — an open, freely available standard published in collaboration with risk and security practitioners worldwide, including the Life Safety Alliance and the Institute of Strategic Risk Management. ORCS defines risk culture as the shared values, beliefs, and behaviors that shape how people actually respond to risk — not what a policy says, but what happens when the policy meets real pressure.
ORCS organizes risk culture into ten dimensions — from leadership and governance to communication, technology integration, and continuous learning — benchmarked against five maturity levels, from ad hoc and reactive to fully embedded and self-sustaining. That same benchmarking discipline — assess where you actually are, align it to where you need to be, validate that it holds under pressure — is the foundation for every coaching and team-development engagement on this page.
A structured, 12-week online executive coaching program for rising security leaders and managers — built on the same leadership principles behind our CEO’s Scaling Pyramids™ methodology, applied specifically to security and risk contexts.
Delivered virtually to cohorts of up to 10, the program runs as twelve weekly one-hour sessions, each combining a focused learning module with small-group breakout discussion. Topics include understanding risk, understanding your organization’s operating context, identifying key stakeholders and their priorities, bridging silos across functions, understanding enterprise security, articulating security’s value up the chain, building a security-aware culture, and distinguishing actual security from security theater — among others.
Individualized coaching is also available to supplement the cohort program for leaders who want additional one-on-one support.
Emergency management teams are cross-functional by nature — each member naturally approaches problems with different views, experience, and priorities. How do you keep your team in sync on solving the problem at hand, and facilitate communication and ideation across those differences?
CrisisLead® is led by Christopher Stitt, an IAEM Certified Emergency Manager well-versed in the Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System, with decades of experience serving on emergency management teams around the world facing real-world emergencies.
Chris helps your team understand their roles and responsibilities, and works with leadership to facilitate communication and collaboration — so team members understand the bigger picture surrounding events and problem-solve more effectively.
CrisisLead® is led by Christopher Stitt, who has more than 25 years of experience working with cross-functional emergency and crisis management teams — including facility-level emergency management teams and national-level task forces, and direct experience across 24+ major incidents spanning hurricanes, earthquakes, civil unrest, explosions, fires, floods, volcanic eruptions, evacuations, and aircraft disasters.
Getting your diverse set of stakeholders aligned on roles, decision-making, and how to operate together under pressure is critical to managing a crisis: to save lives, protect property, and safeguard your organization’s reputation.
If you’re a senior executive looking for coaching in leadership, crisis management, navigating complexity, or leading through organizational change, CrisisLead® CEO Christopher Stitt brings the experience you need. Learn more at ChristopherStitt.com/leadership-coaching.
The program is delivered online to cohorts of up to 10, in twelve weekly one-hour sessions. For organizations that want a compressed, on-site version, CrisisLead® can work with you to accommodate that format.
The cohort program brings together up to 10 security leaders for shared learning and breakout discussion. Individualized coaching is available to supplement the cohort program for leaders who want additional one-on-one support.
No. The program is built for security leaders and managers at any stage, whether you're the sole security function at your organization or part of a larger team.
It's an open, freely available standard co-authored by CrisisLead® CEO Christopher Stitt. It has been peer reviewed by more than a dozen top global professionals in risk and resilience, and supported by leading global organizations in the field. It defines risk culture through ten dimensions and five maturity levels — the same benchmarking discipline, assess, align, validate, that grounds CrisisLead®'s own approach.
No. This program and the team-coaching offerings on this page are security- and crisis-specific. For broader executive coaching in leadership, crisis management, or navigating organizational change, Christopher Stitt offers that through ChristopherStitt.com/coaching.
CrisisLead® works with organizations on the specific leadership and culture challenges they’re actually facing — not a one-size-fits-all list.
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