Strategic Disaster Solutions
Building resilience through innovation
Business Continuity Management
Don’t wait for a crisis or disaster to happen before making the safety, reputation and preparedness of your staff and business a priority.
Community Resilience & Engagement
Recent events worldwide have demonstrated a need for communities to be more self-reliant and less dependent on emergency services personnel and governments to assist them in times of crisis.
Projects
Do you have a unique emergency management project? No worries! We can help. Our experienced consultants are highly skilled in project management and are flexible and dynamic in their approach.
Hazard & Risk Assessment
We provide consulting services that help to reduce the risk exposure and vulnerability of organisations and communities.
Exercise Design & Facilitation
Don’t wait until you have a real disaster to test your plans! Strategic Disaster Solutions consultants can design and facilitate a wide variety of exercises to validate your plans and procedures
Independent Debriefing
We have extensive operational experience and are highly experienced in debriefing. This enables our consultants to provide objective feedback on our clients performance and to identify relevant learning.
Emergency Mangement Planning
We provide a highly participatory and interactive approach to ensure emergency management plans satisfy corporate and regulatory requirements.
Training
It goes without saying that staff that are trained will perform better during response and recovery operations.
Evaluation, Audit and Compliance
Emergency management is constantly evolving and needs to be responsive to change. Strategic Disaster Solutions can review all of the elements of your emergency management program.
About Us
Effective leadership, integrity and customer service
The business model for Strategic Disaster Solutions consists of a consortium of talented emergency management consultants working together to provide a unique, affordable consulting resource for both public and private sector organisations.
Our extensive worldwide network of emergency management, business continuity, crisis and risk management professionals provide an unparalleled depth of subject matter expertise and facilitates access to experts when you need them; this enables us to respond to virtually any of your requirements or demands.
Highly reputable and experienced consultants offer proven skills matched to your individual requirements in each assignment. In this way, Strategic Disaster Solutions delivers innovative and cost effective solutions tailored to meet the complex challenges confronting decision makers. Our consultants have the capacity to handle any project – large or small with full flexibility and customisation of services.
Our Mission
Strategic Disaster Solutions is dedicated to delivering high quality, affordable and innovative consultancy based services to enhance the resilience of people, organisations and communities so they can manage emergencies, crises and disaster events with confidence.
Using a risk-based educational approach, we aim to demonstrate effective leadership, integrity and customer service and to build mutually valued partnerships with our customers and clients.
We strive to deliver continuous improvement and to maintain a friendly, fair and cooperative work environment which respects diversity, new ideas, hard work and creativity.
Consultants
Principal Consultant
Sarah Dean is the principal and founder of Strategic Disaster Solutions.
Sarah has extensive operational experience across the entire spectrum of emergency management including risk assessment, emergency plan development, training, exercising, warning and informing, community development and engagement, and business continuity management. Sarah is currently based in Far North Queensland, Australia but has worldwide emergency management experience having held senior positions in the UK and Caribbean.
Other Consultants
Strategic Disaster Solutions has access to a wide range of industry specialists to support the successful completion of your project, whatever industry you’re in or objective you are trying to achieve.