We are pleased to announce recent developments within Kestrel Group that result in a significant enhancement of our capability to provide our clients with innovative solutions to their risk, continuity and emergency management needs.
Karen Stephens is now a Director of Kestrel Group, after consulting on projects with us for the past five years. Karen has had her own successful consultancy, ‘Resilience’ since 2004, and this has provided her the opportunity to work with many large corporate organisations including Fonterra and Telecom. Her decision to now join Kestrel provides us with an opportunity to place more emphasis on Business Continuity and Crisis Management, which are Karen’s specialty, and areas of capability development need in many organisations.
Kristin Hoskin and Sandy Pedersen are also now Directors, along with Dave, Gavin and Karen.
In addition, David Middleton ONZM has joined Kestrel as a consultant, having recently stepped down as Chief Executive of the Earthquake Commission. As well as working on specific projects in the research and insurance areas, David will be assisting other members of the Kestrel team to convey to executive levels of organisations the need for greater commitment and leadership in relation to business continuity and emergency management.
Our focus will continue to be on providing services in the fields of risk, continuity and emergency management. We welcome Karen and David and look forward to continuing to work with our wide range of clients and those joining us from Resilience.
Please contact us as follows:
| Dave Brunsdon (profile) | db@kestrel.co.nz | 021 679 338 |
| Kristin Hoskin (profile) | kh@kestrel.co.nz | 027 2263 072 |
| David Middleton | dm@kestrel.co.nz | 021 1896 176 |
| Sandy Pedersen (profile) | sp@kestrel.co.nz | 021 683 113 |
| Karen Stephens (profile) | ks@kestrel.co.nz | 027 4070 888 |
| Gavin Treadgold (profile) | gt@kestrel.co.nz | 021 679 335 |
About Kestrel Group
Kestrel Group is a consulting practice that helps organisations improve their resilience. We specialise in:
- Risk management
- Business Continuity
- Crisis Management
- Emergency Management
- Exercise Management and Evaluation
Kestrel Group has developed unique approaches for making assessments of organisational capacity and capability for crisis management.
We work with people to:
- Understand their organisation's current capacity and capability
- Where their organisation needs to be
- Helping them to understand and address what they don't know (gap analysis)
- How to improve their performance (planning, training, exercises)
Our approach is tailored to suit the organisation and sector, and can take the form of either:
a quick overview "health-check", or
a comprehensive assessment of crisis capability and overall resilience.
Kestrel's overall goal is to enhance the resilience of organisations, and help them with their planning, training and exercises so that they will function effectively in any crisis situation.
Please have a browse through our website to learn more about us.