Founder, The Crisis Studio.
I've spent 17 years in business continuity and crisis management, starting at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., where I worked in the Business Continuity Management Unit and the Global Security Watch Office. I provided on-call emergency support through cyberattacks, kidnap-and-ransom cases, terrorist bombings, coup attempts, the Arab Spring, hurricanes and typhoons, and the Haiti earthquake — and helped build the crisis management and business continuity framework covering the Bank's headquarters and more than 200 country offices in 188 countries.
From there I spent a decade at Deloitte as a crisis management and business resilience consultant, then manager — designing business impact analyses and risk assessments, facilitating executive-level crisis simulations, and leading disaster recovery tests across financial services, consumer products, and other regulated industries.
I hold an M.Sc. in Engineering Management with a focus on Crisis, Disaster & Risk Management from George Washington University, and a degree from the University of Virginia. I currently serve on the board of the Global Resilience Professional Body. I'm based in Austin, Texas.
“I had the pleasure of working with Kye when he led the design and facilitation of a tabletop crisis management exercise for our executive team. He did an outstanding job from start to finish. He took the time to understand exactly what we needed and built those requirements into the exercise with care and precision. Nothing we asked for was overlooked, and the scenario was realistic, well structured, and appropriately challenging for senior leaders. As a facilitator, he was excellent. He kept the discussion focused, drew out thoughtful participation, and created an environment in which the team could test decisions, surface gaps, and learn without losing momentum. The session was tightly run, professional, and highly productive. I would not hesitate to work with him again and recommend him without reservation to any organization looking for a skilled, reliable partner to design and lead a very high quality crisis management tabletop exercise.”
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