What does a Good Resilience Organisation Really Look Like, Balancing Skills and Functional Expertise

07 Oct 2026
Assembly Hall
Track 1: Organisational Resilience: Threats and Opportunities
Every organisation has unique objectives, risks,  values, operations and geographical scope that require an equally unique resilience function. There is no one size fits all, and even within the resilience function, several different skills are likely to be required  - creatives, leaders, analysts resource investigators. This session looks at how to design a resilience function from the bottom up, building expertise and business capabilities together to ensure a rounded and complete team. Good teams bring good results, but are rarely the result of random selection of people. Looking at case studies of different organisations, this session will provide guidance on how to build better resilience through optimising human capital. 
Moderator
Adrian Loader
Adrian Loader, Executive Coach - Adrian Loader Limited
Speakers
Marc Vink
Marc Vink, Group Head of HSE & Security - ABB
Gordon Bedford
Gordon Bedford, Chief Safety, Security, Health & Environment Officer - F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Konstantinos Stergiopoulos
Konstantinos Stergiopoulos, Chief Security Officer - Nestlé
Xenia Wickett
Xenia Wickett, Director - Wickett Advisory