Risk Consultants

About: 

I am a health & safety professional and the principal consultant for EnviroSafe Consulting Limited, based in Auckland. People are my passion and small and medium businesses are the focus.

I have a foundation in commercial air transport operations and extensive knowledge from working in high-risk, highly regulated and complex environments. I have experience in a number of industry sectors including manufacturing, maintenance, construction, landscaping and horticulture production, metals recovery, and steel production.

Whilst risk is inherently present in all aspects of our lives, I have a particular passion for small-to-medium sized business-related risk. COVID-19 has highlighted the impact the macro environment has on the viability of many smaller businesses. I want to help these businesses increase their capacity for change, thereby increasing resilience in this world of uncertainty. 

Areas of Expertise:

• Change management
• Strategic management 
• Crisis management
• Risk analysis and reduction 
• Management systems development
• Hazard management
• Auditing
• People development and training

Training:

• Hazardous Substances Certified Handler (full)
• 5-Day TapRooT Root Cause Analysis workshop
• ICAM Advanced Investigation Training
• Lead Auditor ISO 14001 (EMS), ISO 9001 (QMS), and OH AS/NZ 4801
• Train the Trainer, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching
• Mental Health First Aid
• CHASNZ – Construct Safe Card

Qualifications: 

• Dip. Horticulture and Landscape Design
• Nat.Dip. Aeronautical Maintenance – Aeroplane (airframe systems)
• Nat.Dip Aeronautical Maintenance – Power-plant (turbine engines)
• Grad.Dip Occupational Health and Safety
• Grad.Dip Emergency Management
• P.Grad.Dip. Emergency Management
• Masters Emergency Management (completing final paper)

Affiliations:

• NZISM – New Zealand Institute of Safety Management

Chris is the Managing Director of Global Risk Consulting (GRC).

A descendant of the Whanganui Awa (River), Uri of Ngati Tuera, Ngati Hinearo, Ngati Poutama, Ngati Pamoana, Atihaunui-a-Paparangi te Iwi.

GRC is a specialised enterprise security risk management consultancy, Chris has worked globally for the Foreign State groups (British Foreign Office and US State Department), large Multi-nationals within the Oil and Gas sector, Ambassadors, celebrities, global tech-firms and a broad range of other local and international clients. More recently Chris provided risk management support for Covid-19, secondment to Operational Command Centre, under vulnerable community programme.

Chris wrote the National Iwi Chairs Forum (National Iwi collective valued at $40bn), Pandemic Response Plan Framework (including the technology systems design process) and associated documents in line with Covid-19 to help reduce pandemic risk to Maori and other communities.

GRC is committed to risk management technology develop and has launched; Security Threat and Risk Assessment Tool (STRAT), Crisis Management System (CMS), National Security Intelligence Platform and is undertaking other technology developments for market, ie a whole of security systems approach.

Memberships

• Life Member of Special Air Services (SAS) Association
• Member of IOD (NZ)
• Member of ASIS Int (NZ Chapter)
• Member of New Zealand Security Association (NZSA)
• Co-Founder of NZ Security Sector Network

Areas of Expertise:

Risk management processes that look to modify likelihood (detect, deter delay) and modify impact (response and recovery).

Service Description:

High level enterprise security risk management, also playing the natural disaster risk management space.

Qualifications:

Post Grad in Risk Management

My interest in risk management and situational awareness was triggered at University, with my first trip into the depths of a working underground coal mine. In my experience, there is nothing like stepping into the lift cage of a deep mine to build awareness of risks and engineering standards.

I am a director of Extrinsic Services Ltd, which was incorporated in 1999. Extrinsic melds the craft of intelligence with risk management and project disciplines to help organisations explore and own their unique futures. We work with people, companies and organisations that want to do things outside of the ordinary and routine – through innovation, and by adopting novel and unusual ways of looking at the world. I am also a partner of Business Cycles, which has a track record in horticulture.

In summary, my work can be described as helping organisations to create certainty of outcome by identifying and managing uncertainties. Over the last 40 years I have worked with more than fifty organisations; this rich mosaic of practical experience provides me with insights into governance structures, organisational design, business transformation, and project disciplines.

I was honoured to be appointed to the Audit and Risk Committee of the Parliamentary Counsel Office in 2014, and to become the first non-lawyer to Chair that Committee.

Areas of Expertise:

I first became a company director in the UK during the 1980’s, and since then I have founded and directed specialist organisations in both the UK and NZ.

A checklist of experience includes:

• Governance (both as a company director and an independent advisor);
• Audit and Risk Committee (member and Chair);
• Intelligence analysis;
• Risk management;
• Complexity theory;
• Data analytics;
• Information technology (IT);
• Independent Quality Assurance (IQA); and
• Project management.

Qualifications and Training:

• BSc – Joint Honours in Exploration Science and Geology
• Governance and leadership. Alumnus of:
  – Farmlands and Silver Fern Farms, To The Core
  – NZ Treasury (COMU), Developing critically reflective Crown directors
  – Institute of Directors NZ, Company Directors’ Course

Areas of expertise

Experienced risk specialist and practitioner providing tailored risk advice and support for strategic, enterprise and operational risk management. A trusted advisor for the public sector (central and local government) as well as corporates and small business, who makes risk practical and effective. Excellent communication and people skills to promote constructive dialogue and build collaborative relationships.

Service description

Expertise to help you:

• Identify, assess and manage risks with confidence
• Establish right-sized and relevant risk registers and action plans
• Implement risk monitoring and dashboard reporting
• Engage and empower risk champions
• Ensure your risk management practice is practical and effective

Risk specialist services include:

• Facilitating risk workshops
• Developing risk frameworks, policies and processes
• Generating mitigation strategies and management plans
• Providing risk insight for Boards, Senior Leadership Teams, and Audit & Risk Committees
• Risk training, coaching and mentoring

Geraint is Director of Navigatus Consulting.

Navigatus is a specialist technical risk management consultancy, first established in 2008 to service the aviation and maritime sectors. The company expanded in 2011 to enable servicing all sectors and to offer advice at all levels. The company values are, integrity, customer service and sustainability.

Areas of Expertise:

Strategic, organisational, operational, technical, safety and project risk management and foresight. Risk analysis.

Service Description:

Framework and process advice and design, facilitation, assessment, analysis, foresight.

Qualifications:

• BEng (Hons)
• Post Grad Dip (Nuc Tech)
• MIoD

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic and compliance risk
• Security risk and intelligence management
• Resilience – business continuity, emergency management and disaster recovery
• Environmental, planning and heritage risk
• Hazard management

Service Description:

• Strategy, compliance and policy advice
• Audit and assurance
• Specialist advice
• Management systems development, implementation and capability development
• Investigations, reviews, assessments, audits
• Project and incident management

Qualifications:

• BSc. MSc(Hons)

Areas of expertise:

Strategic, enterprise and project risk management; quantitative cost and schedule risk assessments for technology, infrastructure, construction and utilities projects.

Service description:

Consultancy services in:

• Policy and framework development
• Training and mentoring
• Facilitation of risk management workshops
• Project risk management, including quantitative risk analysis