Crisis management exercises

Your playbook,under real pressure.

Fully immersive crisis exercises, tailored to your organization, your risks, and your people. Realistic enough that leaders forget it is an exercise.

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Exercise 1:30

The broadcast is fake. The decisions are real.

Every broadcast, post, and voicemail in our exercises is produced for the scenario. None of it is real news, and every company and person in it is invented.

What participants experience

Exercises your leaders remember, and ask to run again.

When a room feels the pressure, people stop treating preparedness as a compliance task. Your program stops chasing attendance and starts getting requests.

Immersive by design

News broadcasts, social media feeds, voicemails, emails, and press articles, produced for your scenario and released on the clock. The room reacts to what it sees and hears, not to a line of text.

Fully bespoke

Nothing comes off the shelf. We start with a scoping call, review your plans, and build the storyline around your sites, suppliers, regulators, and customers.

Built by a practitioner

Designed by someone who has run crisis response inside global companies and briefed executives from the incident command room. Pressure points come from real events, not a textbook.

Designed, not generated

We use AI responsibly, to produce realistic broadcasts, voices, and social feeds. It enhances the experience, it does not design it. Every storyline, pressure point, and debrief question comes from twenty years of running crisis programs.

What you receive

Three components. One deliverable.

Every exercise arrives as a complete package, ready to run in one day, with meaningful after-action reporting. Look inside a fictional sample below.

Topics we run

If it can happen to your organization, we can build it.

Cyber and technology

Ransomware, data breach, deepfakes, system outages

Operations and supply chain

Supplier failure, product recall, facility loss

Natural hazards

Hurricanes, floods, wildfire, severe weather, utility outages

People and security

Workplace violence, executive threats, travelers, insider threat

Reputation and media

Protest, social media escalation, investigative press, labor action

Regulatory and legal

Investigation, enforcement action, disclosure obligations

Health and safety

Serious injury, site emergency, public health disruption

Geopolitical and travel

Country instability, evacuation, sanctions exposure

Ways to work with us

Choose how much of the exercise you want us to own.

Every option starts with a scoping call and ends with an exercise built for your organization, for executive teams, regional teams, or a single business unit or site.

Design

We build it, you run it

For teams with an experienced internal facilitator. A complete custom exercise package, delivered ready to run.

  • Scoping call and plan review
  • Custom storyline and media injects
  • Facilitator guide
  • After action report template, pre built for the scenario
Discuss a design package
Most requested

Design and Facilitation

We build it, run it, and report on it

For executive teams who want an outside voice in the room. Everything in Design, plus a facilitator who has sat in the chair.

  • Leader interviews and research
  • Executive pre brief
  • Live facilitation, on site or virtual
  • Completed, scored after action report
Discuss a facilitated exercise

Annual Program

A year of exercises that build

For programs that exercise several teams or regions each year. A planned series, each one harder and more connected than the last.

  • Annual exercise calendar
  • Scenarios matched to your risk priorities
  • Consistent scoring across exercises
  • Year end progress summary for leadership
Discuss an annual program

Every engagement is scoped to your organization and quoted as a fixed fee after a short call.

Who builds your exercise

Twenty years inside the room, not beside it.

Crisis Point is led by Maria Stone. She spent more than twenty years building and running crisis management, business continuity, and risk intelligence programs inside global companies, including building a cyber resilience program from nothing. She has briefed executives during live incidents and written the plans those executives had to use.

Your exercise is designed by the person who has done the job, not handed to a junior team. The storyline, the pressure points, and the debrief questions come from incidents she worked, which is why rooms respond to them.

Maria Stone, Founder and Principal, Crisis Point

Start a conversation

Find out what your leaders decide, before it matters.

Tell us about your team and the risk you want tested. We will come back to you to set up a short scoping call.

Request a custom exercise

Or email Maria.Stone@crisis-point.com

The sample exercise shown on this page is a work of fiction. PharmaCore Industries, its people, its products, its suppliers and every event in the storyline were invented for the exercise. Any resemblance to a real company with a similar name, or to real people or events, is unintended.