PHIPPS-WILLIAMS ADVISORY
Crisis-ready, by design
Paul Phipps-Williams works with organisations who want to become more resilient to the growing risks we face, and more confident in how they respond in a crisis.
// 01 - about me
At the heart of national and local resilience since 2011
Working with Phipps-Williams Advisory gives you access to 24 years of policy and strategy experience, 15 of these managing national emergencies at both central government and local multi-agency level.
I've sat around the COBR table and worked with multi-agency partners across the country. This gives me a unique perspective on crisis preparedness from both a local and national view.
Paul Phipps-Williams
Director
// 02 - what I do
Strengthen your resilience in an ever-changing world.
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Exercise Design
Exercises built around your plans, your people and the events you’re most likely to face.
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Workshop Facilitation
Bring the best out of your people, with engaging and confident facilitation.
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Training Delivery
Get a unique perspective from the heart of both Whitehall’s and SCG crisis machinery.
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Independent Review
Get a review of your plans & policies with clear recommendations.
// 03 - my story
How will my experience benefit your organisation?
I have designed command, control and coordination systems, been at the heart of countless national emergencies, worked with multi-agency partnerships across the country, developed mitigation strategies for core risks and delivered policies to increase resilience.
Here's how my experience could benefit you.
2011
Volatile environment?
I’ll help you understand options in a volatile environment as I did in the civil unrest of 2011.
2012
High profile events?
I’ll help you exercise your plans, as I did for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
2013
Understand the worst-case
I’ll help you understand your worst-case scenario and write emergency plans, as I did for east coast-floods and major fires.
2014
Unforeseen risk?
I’ll help you develop innovative solutions to rising risk, as I did when responding to Ebola in 2014.
2015
Need Strategic Support?
I’ll help you set a strategic framework as I did when passing legislation or leading support to Cabinet Ministers.
2019
No crisis management system?
I’ll help you design how you make decisions in uncertain circumstances as I did during COVID and Brexit.
2021
Need plans reviewing?
I’ll bring your stakeholders together and be a critical friend to sense-check your plans as I did when leading local resilience teams across the country.
2024
Is change needed?
I’ll work to develop options for change, and recommendations on how to sensibly implement, as I did for local resilience policy, and national capability.
Discover the project
Get a free consultation so I can understand your needs.
Strategy development
We work on the outcome you want, and how we will achieve it.
Review progress and results
I will monitor progress and present findings.
Implement the solution
I will work with your team to deliver my proposal
Frequently Asked Questions
I help businesses understand their risk, put in place strategies to mitigate them. I also help design and deliver exercises to test response plans, act as a critical friend to plans and policies, and can deliver training and facilitate workshops.
I was a civil servant for 24 years in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. I've developed policy across housing, cohesion, planning, and local government.
I've worked in the private offices of cabinet ministers in both the House of Commons and House of Lords, and taken extensive pieces of legislation through Parliament.
Over the last 14 years I specialised in resilience and crisis management, leading response teams, enabling Ministers to take informed decisions in COBR, mitigating national capability risks in areas such as transport, fire safety, homeland defence and border disruption, and working with multi-agency partnerships to improve the resilience of local areas.
Over the course of my career I have been the Head of Regional Resilience for the South-West, Midlands, South-East, London and East of England. I have worked extensively with local resilience forums to help them plan for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.
I am MAGIC trained, qualified to act as a strategic commander, and have delivered keynote speeches to national conferences and training workshops across England.
I work with private and public-sector organisations who want to understand how to become more resilient in light of the ever-changing nature of risks to their success.
I do this in many ways, through facilitating workshops, designing exercises, reviewing plans, developing strategies and recommending steps to increase resilience.
