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Put your leadership team inside the crisis, before it happens.
Top-Team Exercises are Resilience Guard's board level crisis simulations. Each one places your top team inside a realistic, escalating disruption and rehearses how they decide, communicate and lead when it matters most.
What is a crisis simulation exercise?
A crisis simulation exercise is a facilitated, discussion based rehearsal in which your leadership team manages a realistic, escalating crisis in compressed time, making and recording the decisions a real event would demand.
There are no live systems and no technical recovery to perform; the value comes from placing senior leaders under genuine decision pressure and observing how they detect, decide, communicate and lead. Resilience Guard designs and delivers every Top-Team Exercise to a board ready standard, anchored to ISO 22361 crisis management and ISO 22301 business continuity, and aligned to NIS2 and DORA operational resilience expectations.
Each exercise ends with a structured debrief, a scored evaluation and a prioritised action plan, so the rehearsal becomes lasting improvement rather than a one off event. Top-Team Exercises are the board level format of our wider crisis management and business continuity exercise programme, which spans tabletop, functional, cyber crisis and full scale formats.
Exercising is regulatory evidence
DORA requires financial entities to test their operational resilience. NIS2 expects essential and important entities to prove incident response capability. A well designed, well documented exercise is the most direct evidence of both, and the scored evaluation and action plan from a Top-Team Exercise are written to stand in front of an auditor.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a Top-Team Exercise take?+
Half a day. The exercise itself runs in compressed time, followed by a structured debrief, a scored evaluation and a prioritised action plan.
Do we need technical preparation?+
No. There are no live systems and no technical recovery to perform. Participants bring their judgement and play the role they would hold in a real event.
What standards are the exercises anchored to?+
Every exercise is anchored to ISO 22361 crisis management and ISO 22301 business continuity, and aligned to NIS2 and DORA operational resilience expectations.
Is the scenario tailored to our sector?+
Yes. Every exercise is designed around your sector, your plans and your plausible worst days, from energy and telecoms to financial services and healthcare.
What do we take away?+
A structured debrief, a scored evaluation of decision quality, and a prioritised action plan that converts the rehearsal into specific improvements to your plans and your governance.
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