Crisis Resources

Insights for enhancing your resilience - posts, podcasts, webinars, and the ANZ Corporate Crisis Index.

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ANZ Corporate Crisis Index

A searchable record of major Australian and New Zealand corporate crises since 2019. Filter by year, sector, cause, and category, and read our assessment of what drove each event alongside anonymised examples from our own casework.

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Grant ChisnallPost • April 4, 2025

Leadership in Crisis is a Matter of Trust

The common differentiator between adaptive and chaotic crisis teams is trust.

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Cargo ship at portPost • April 6, 2025

Tariffs and Trade Wars: Navigating Geopolitical Uncertainty

How rising trade nationalism is reshaping risk for businesses that operate across borders.

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What Qantas did right - lessons from their recent data breachPost • July 16, 2025

What Qantas did right… lessons from their recent data breach

Qantas' measured response to a major data breach offers a model for crisis communications: Acknowledge, Apologise, Assure, Act.

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Why Cyber Exercises must go beyond ITPost • October 6, 2025

Why Cyber Exercises must go beyond IT

Cyber risk is a business risk, and exercises designed only for IT teams create a false sense of preparedness.

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Running on Empty - global energy disruptionPost • April 14, 2026

Running on Empty

How the Middle East conflict is disrupting global energy, and what your business should do now.

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Use of AI in Crisis Management and ResponseWebinar • March 18, 2026

Use of AI in Crisis Management and Response

How AI can support crisis decision-making, communications, and situational awareness, without displacing leadership accountability.

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20 Years on - Lessons from the Beaconsfield Mine CollapsePodcast • April 27, 2026

20 Years on - Lessons from the Beaconsfield Mine Collapse

Grant Chisnall sits down with Matt Gill, the Mine Manager who led the 2006 Beaconsfield rescue, to reflect on leadership lessons two decades on.

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Heads In - But Hands Out: Board Responsibilities in Crisis Management and ResponseWebinar • April 2, 2026

Heads In - But Hands Out: Board Responsibilities in Crisis Management and Response

What effective board governance looks like during a crisis, and how to maintain the right separation between oversight and operational control.

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When Your Use of AI Becomes a CrisisWebinar • June 10, 2026

When Your Use of AI Becomes a Crisis

Two real-world case studies - Deloitte's AI-hallucinated government report and KPMG's AI exam cheating scandal - on what good AI governance looks like, and what happens when it fails.

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Boom or Bust

Survive and Thrive During Crisis

In Boom or Bust, Grant Chisnall brings together lessons in crisis management from the military and fifteen years of advising executive teams through some of the most significant crisis events in recent corporate history. 30% of all book sales are donated to the Emergency Services Foundation.

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