Escalate Consulting

Escalate Consulting provides Critical Incident Response and business resilience consulting from Brisbane, with teams in Perth and Sydney, serving ASX-listed and large organisations across finance, telecommunications, energy, transport, government and health sectors. Managing director and founder Simon Petie brings over 20 years of experience in crisis management, supported by a team of BCI-certified consultants including Trent Clouston (2024 BCI Consultant of the Year, AUSPAC).

• Crisis Management Planning and training for executive and leadership teams, covering decision-making under pressure, situational awareness, stakeholder communication, and activation protocols aligned with ISO 22361 standards.
• Simulation exercises and tabletop scenarios customised to test and strengthen organisational incident response capability in controlled learning environments.
• Post-incident reviews and debriefs ensuring organisations learn from disruptive events and embed capability improvements.
• Business Continuity Planning and training across all organisational levels, meeting obligations under APRA CPS 230 and ISO 22301 standards.

Best for: regulated entities and ASX-listed organisations requiring structured crisis response capability development and board-level incident readiness.

Escalate Consulting delivers Compliance and Mandatory Training in business continuity and crisis management, helping organisations meet ISO 22301, ISO 22361 and APRA CPS 230 standards. Programs span from executive governance briefings through to operational team awareness sessions on roles, escalation procedures and recovery protocols.

• Crisis Team Training covering leadership decision-making under uncertainty, situational awareness building and crisis meeting management.
• Business Continuity awareness sessions ensuring staff understand activation triggers, Recovery Time Objectives, and cross-functional coordination requirements.
• Train-the-trainer programs building internal capacity for sustained capability development and refresher training cycles.

Best for: financial services, energy, telecommunications and government organisations undertaking compliance uplift or regulatory capability programs.