Prepare for high-risk travel. Practise decisions that matter under pressure.
H.E.A.T. prepares people for travel into high-risk and unpredictable environments — the checkpoints, the civil unrest, the moment a plan stops working. Built for corporate travellers, media crews and field teams who need more than an awareness talk: real decisions, practised under pressure, before the destination ever puts them to the test.
H.E.A.T. enquiries
Planning travel to a high-risk destination? Tell us the destination, the team and the risk profile — we’ll come back with a tailored H.E.A.T. proposal within one business day.
Why this matters
The world is more uncertain than it was a year ago.
Rising uncertainty
66%
of organisations say the world has grown significantly more uncertain over the past yea
Source: International SOS Risk Outlook 2026.
The offering
What the programme covers
Seven areas, built around the decisions people actually have to make in the field — not a general awareness talk.
- Pre-travel risk assessment
- Secure communications
- Emergency first aid
- Responding to detention, abduction or a hostage situation
- Movement and accommodation security
- Checkpoints and civil unrest
- Contingency planning
Office-Based H.E.A.T.
Structured, scenario-led sessions that walk through the same high-risk decisions — checkpoints, civil unrest, contingency planning — without deploying to a physical training environment.
Immersive H.E.A.T.
The same decisions, practised under realistic physical and time pressure in a simulated hostile-environment setting — built for people whose travel risk warrants it.
Delivery – Delivered in small groups, tailored to the organisation, in either the office-based or immersive outdoor format depending on destination and risk profile.
Objective – The aim is to build sound judgement and confidence, so people know how to prepare, when to change course and how to seek help.
Global network
A recognised global partner, with a local, trusted network.
Praesidio works through a long-established network of government, non-governmental organisations, law enforcement, military and trusted local-professional contacts — not last-minute, generic fixers. That local insight means real-time, ground-truth judgement calls on developing situations, and capability that can be re-established and verified within days in a new location when there is advance notice.
- Vetted local support, not generic fixers
- Transparent country scope, including named exclusions
- Capability that scales with advance notice
- Local insight and real-time verification of developing situations
Who delivers it
Built and led by people who've been there.
Field
Operational experience in hostile and high-risk environments
Corporate
Corporate and international security leadership background
Audience
Prepares travellers, media crews and executives for high-risk deployments
Practitioners
Led by people who've handled the scenario themselves, not just studied it
Tailored
Sessions built around your industry and audience in advance
Beyond
Often the start of a deeper relationship — talks lead to workshops or advisory work
Planning travel to a high-risk destination?
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