Crisis Preparedness

Crisis preparedness from Susanne Skov Diemer and Praesidio Group strengthens resilience at personal, corporate and national level. By combining personal readiness, organisational resilience and community-focused preparedness, Praesidio helps clients withstand and recover from crises together.

Susanne Skov Diemer and Praesidio deliver comprehensive crisis preparedness services that strengthen resilience at every level—individual, corporate, and national.

Their work includes personal crisis preparedness, helping individuals and families understand essential risks and build practical plans for staying safe and self-reliant during disruptions.

For organisations, Praesidio guides leadership teams in preparing their entire workforce for crises, supporting companies in fulfilling their duty of care by ensuring employees are also prepared at home, not just at work.

This is complemented by robust crisis management planning, business continuity strategies, and training that equips organisations to respond effectively under pressure.

By combining personal readiness, corporate resilience, and community-focused preparedness, Susanne Skov Diemer and Praesidio contribute to building a stronger, more resilient society—capable of withstanding and recovering from crises together.

Personal crisis preparedness

Crisis preparedness starts at the individual and family level. Many people assume that authorities or employers will handle most scenarios, but disruptions often begin at home: power outages, loss of communications, infrastructure failures, travel disruptions, or wider incidents that affect everyday routines.

Praesidio helps individuals and families:

Understand realistic risks in their daily lives, travel, and local environment
Identify critical needs if power, water, or communications are disrupted
Create simple, practical plans and checklists that work in real life
Prepare basic supplies and “go bags” without turning their home into a bunker

The goal is calm, informed readiness—not fear. Personal crisis preparedness provides families with more options when an unexpected event occurs and supports broader community resilience.

Crisis preparedness for organisations

For organisations, crisis preparedness is both a duty of care and a strategic necessity. Leadership teams are expected to protect people, operations, and reputation under pressure—often in full public view.

Praesidio supports organisations by:

Guiding leadership teams in building realistic crisis scenarios and playbooks
Aligning crisis preparedness with existing risk management and security frameworks
Ensuring that employees are prepared at home as well as at work
Designing and testing business continuity strategies that can be activated quickly.

When employees understand what to do—both in the office and at home—organisations are better able to keep critical functions running and to take care of their people during disruptions.

Crisis management planning and training

Crisis preparedness is not only about having documents and plans; it is about how people act when pressure is real. Praesidio combines crisis management planning with exercises and training that help leaders and teams respond effectively when something goes wrong.

This can include:

crisis management frameworks and clear roles and responsibilities
decision-making under pressure for executives and crisis teams
communication strategies for internal and external stakeholders
table-top exercises and simulations based on realistic scenarios

The result is not a “perfect plan”, but an organisation that has practised how to think, decide, and act under stress.

Preparedness at corporate, national and community level

Crisis preparedness work at corporate and national level increasingly overlaps. Organisations, public authorities and communities depend on the same infrastructure, supply chains and information flows. Praesidio’s experience from international security, EU projects and urban resilience initiatives provides insight into how these layers interact.

By combining:

personal readiness
corporate resilience
and community-focused preparedness

Susanne Skov Diemer and Praesidio contribute to building stronger, more resilient societies—capable of withstanding and recovering from crises together.

Rethinking crisis preparedness

Modern crises rarely follow a neat script. Power, infrastructure, digital services and public order can all be affected at the same time, while information spreads faster than ever. In such an environment, crisis preparedness is not a luxury—it is part of responsible leadership at home, at work and in society.

If you want to review your own crisis preparedness—personally, in your organisation or at a broader level—Praesidio Group can help turn general ideas into specific plans, training and action.