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Executive Business Briefing | Middle East: After the Shock
Building Competitive Advantage Through Resilience

On 16 March 2026, we hosted our very first webinar on risk and resilience—and it was genuinely exciting to see so many C-suite leaders, operational teams, and risk professionals join us from around the world.

If you weren’t able to make it, we had six risk experts come together to share their perspectives, breaking down the key triggers to watch out for across people, supply chains, and operations as we get through disruptions in 2026.

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Key Takeaways

  • Current Situation: Iran looks to extend the duration and geography of the conflict to increase the costs for US, Israel and Gulf states ​
  • People Resilience: Ensure that you have considered what your Duty of Care to your people really means in terms of legal, reputational and operational impacts​
  • Supply Chain: Conduct supply chain impact analyses at local, regional and global supply chain level - and get contingencies in place before your primary supply chain is impacted​
  • Operational Continuity: Once you have identified your critical business activities, stress test the contingencies against all three generic interruption scenarios (loss of people, loss of facilities / equipment, loss of services / supplies)​
  • The conflict is an asymmetric warfare with Iran seeking to prolong and extend the conflict.​
  • Being caught out by the rapid deterioration in the situation is tolerable. Failure to manage Duty of Care and to plan for longer term impacts to deliver competitive advantage is not.​
     

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Why This Matters

As global energy systems and critical infrastructure face increasing disruption, organisations must move beyond reactive strategies. This briefing explores how businesses can adapt, respond, and lead in a rapidly evolving environment—turning uncertainty into opportunity.


What Was Said

"The greatest supply chain risks aren’t where you’re looking; they sit upstream, beyond Tier 1 visibility. That’s where critical dependencies and real exposure are concentrated, particularly in regions like the Middle East."

James Crask

"Resilience isn’t just about responding to what’s happening now. It’s about anticipating the second and third order consequences that most organisations aren’t yet looking at."

Laurent Giezendanner

"The critical task is not defining scenarios, but tracking the triggers behind them like elections, casualty rates, public support, supply flows and resource constraints, because those are what determine how the situation evolves."

Grégoire Dugueyt

"Business resilience is no longer a support function. It sits at the centre of a structured, risk-based approach to coordinating response, managing people-centric risks, and maintaining business continuity."

Cedrick Moriggi

"In disruption, clarity is everything. Use decision frameworks to cut through the fog. Organisations that do this recover faster, protect talent, and outperform when it matters most."

Gautier POROT

"You can be caught off guard once, not twice. If you’re not systematically assessing risk now, failures in your supply chain or operations won’t be excused later. Every organisation’s risk is different — but ignoring it isn’t an option."

Richard Fitzhugh


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Leigh Robinson
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ABOUT THIS BRIEFING

This webinar is produced by RWN Summit, the professional community dedicated to building resilient organisations and resilient societies, in partnership with Group Resilience, a strategic advisory firm specialising in non-financial risk management for multinational organisations, and Energy Events Experts (E3), specialists in high-impact energy sector events and intelligence.

Our faculty brings together senior practitioners in energy security, supply chain resilience, crisis management, and corporate risk. This is not a general discussion. It is a decision-support briefing built for the moment.