Advisory & Consulting
Independent advisory for connected, systemic risk.
Risk strategy, systemic risk and decision-making — built on more than two decades in financial-services risk, for leadership teams in environments where traditional frameworks fall short. UK-based, open to remote engagements worldwide.
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Where my work sits.
I'm an independent risk consultant working at the intersection of systemic risk, interconnectedness, and strategic decision-making — how organisations actually understand the environments they operate in, and where traditional risk frameworks fall short.
Through Risk Portal, I work with leadership teams to make better sense of interconnected risk, strengthen organisational resilience, and sharpen strategic decision-making. The work combines advisory, analytical modelling, and the exploratory platforms I build to move organisations beyond static reporting toward more dynamic ways of understanding risk.
Areas of focus
Six areas of work.
Systemic and interconnected risk
Mapping how risks connect and compound across a system, where the pressure concentrates, and which dependencies a map can only explore one at a time. My work surfaces single points of failure and feedback loops, along with the emerging exposures that sit between functions rather than inside any one of them.
Operational resilience
Working with the Important Business Services and dependency maps firms have already built under PS21/3, my work makes the structure they form visible across the organisation. This addresses the structural questions a service-by-service view cannot answer.
Scenario development and testing
Scenario design, stress testing and wind-down planning, built on the real structure of dependencies rather than assumptions. This structural view sits alongside Monte Carlo simulation, pairing the structure of a scenario with its likelihood.
Risk visualisation and exploratory analytics
Visual, exploratory analysis that moves leadership past static reporting to a view of risk they can interrogate directly. Decision-makers can follow a path, test a dependency and see where stress travels, instead of reading a fixed snapshot.
Antifragility
Beyond resilience, the capacity to improve under stress rather than simply withstand it. This includes the antifragility scorecard, a structured assessment of where an organisation gains or loses from volatility, turning a concept that is usually only described into something that can be measured and acted on.
Applied research and thought leadership
Published analysis that applies the approach to live systemic questions, with a focus on financial services: financial contagion, stress in private markets and private equity, and the global strategic factors shaping the operating environment. The research demonstrates the method on real problems rather than describing it in the abstract.
How I work
Analytical rigour, practical delivery.
- Translating complex risk into clear, board-ready insight
- Frameworks that align risk with business goals and the regulator's expectations
- Data-driven modelling and visualisation that informs real decisions
- Practical implementation that survives contact with real constraints
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Tell me what you need insight on — a resilience challenge, a strategic context, or a framework that isn't landing — and we will find the right way in.
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