Mettle Global

What Mettle Global does

Mettle Global is a privately held Australian corporate advisory and management consulting firm headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 2001 as Truscott Crisis Leaders and rebranded to Mettle Global in 2023, the firm is Australian veteran-owned and led by former Australian Special Air Service (SAS) officers including Managing Partner Ben Pronk and Senior Partner Tim Curtis. The company delivers five core service lines — Crisis Management, Leadership & Teamwork, Resilience, Keynotes & Conferences, and Strategic Advisory — with a separate Student Programs offering for academic clients.

The firm's core intellectual property is the proprietary Resilience Shield methodology, developed over more than a decade of research by SAS veterans Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk, and Tim Curtis and codified in the published book The Resilience Shield. The methodology translates special-operations resilience techniques into a framework for organisational resilience planning, supported by workshops, retreats, crisis simulations, and after-action reviews. Adjacent content assets include The Unforgiving60 podcast and a research collaboration with the University of Western Australia's School of Psychological Science.

Commercially, Mettle Global operates a premium, partner-led consulting model with bespoke quote-based pricing and direct enterprise sales. It reports 150+ projects and tasks annually across more than 20 countries, with a self-described footprint spanning Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australasia, and the UK, and claims that 100% of ASX200 companies trust its services. Named customers include Pilbara Minerals, Woodside, Coogee, and RAAF Base East Sale. The firm has 11–50 employees plus an extended team of 20+ associates and has not raised external institutional capital based on available data.

Name

Mettle Global

Legal name

Mettle Global Holdings Pty Ltd

Website

https://mettle.global

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services Consulting: Revenue generated through bespoke consulting engagements for crisis management, business continuity, leadership development, resilience training, and strategic advisory services. The firm operates on a project-based consulting model with partner-led delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Mettle Global is a premium corporate advisory and management consulting firm that establishes and improves organisational resilience for enterprise clients. It delivers specialist crisis and emergency management, business continuity management, risk consultancy, leadership and teamwork development, resilience workshops and retreats, keynotes, and strategic advisory services. Engagements are bespoke, partner-led, and built on a proprietary methodology adapted from special operations.

Product overview

Mettle Global is a premium corporate advisory and management consulting firm offering a portfolio of professional services focused on organisational resilience. The core offering spans five interconnected service areas: Crisis Management (emergency and business continuity management), Leadership & Teamwork (corporate and student programs), Resilience (workshops and retreats), Keynotes & Conferences, and Strategic Advisory. The company also publishes The Resilience Shield book and produces the Unforgiving60 podcast. Founded in 2001 and operating globally, the firm serves clients across Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Australasia, completing over 150 projects annually in 20+ countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crisis Management Specialist crisis and emergency management, business continuity management, and risk consultancy providing plan development, review, training, workshops, and crisis simulations to enterprise clients globally.
• Leadership & Teamwork Corporate and student programs that combine theoretical foundations with practical experiential activities to develop leadership and teamwork capabilities.
• Resilience Workshops and retreats that incorporate theory, storytelling, activities, and exercises tailored to the group, based on the proprietary Resilience Shield methodology developed by SAS veterans.
• Keynotes & Conferences Entertaining, engaging, and informative keynote presentations delivered by the Mettle team drawing on broad-ranging military and emergency services experience.
• Strategic Advisory Advisory services that link an organisation's current state with its desired future state using proprietary appreciation processes and analytical tools derived from special operations to identify organisational centres of gravity.
• Student Programs Interactive workshops and experiential retreats for corporate groups, secondary, and tertiary students covering crisis and risk management, professional development, leadership, resilience, team cohesion, and stress management.
• The Resilience Shield Published book codifying the proprietary Resilience Shield methodology developed by Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk and Tim Curtis, SAS veterans who created the model through more than ten years of research combining special operations techniques with academic and medical research.
• Unforgiving60 Podcast Podcast hosted by Ben and Tim in which they interview people leading unusual lives to learn how they fill their 'unforgiving minutes' and what helps them go further.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• University of Western AustraliamoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative research partnership with Dr Lies Notebaert within The University of Western Australia's School of Psychological Science for the Resilience Survey research program. The purpose is to improve collective understanding of resilience and assist individuals in identifying areas for personal resilience development.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DDI: Development Dimensions International (DDI) is a global leadership development firm specialising in leadership training, assessment and high-potential programmes. It is comparable to Mettle Global on the leadership training and team development side, though it focuses on enterprise-scale managed programmes.
• Deloitte: Deloitte operates a global Resilience and Crisis Management practice spanning risk advisory, cyber and continuity. It competes for the same enterprise risk and resilience mandates as Mettle Global, but typically as part of multi-million-dollar multi-year risk transformation engagements.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey's Risk & Resilience Practice and organisational health work target board-level resilience, crisis response and leadership capability mandates. It competes for similar enterprise advisory work to Mettle Global, with far larger bench and global brand.
• FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm with a dedicated Crisis & Investigations and Corporate Security practice. Like Mettle Global it sells crisis management, business continuity and resilience services to enterprises, but as part of a much broader advisory portfolio.
• Protiviti: Protiviti is a global risk consulting and internal audit firm with significant business continuity, crisis management and resilience practices. Comparable to Mettle Global's risk and resilience services, but operating as a large multi-practice consultancy.
• Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organisational consulting firm with deep leadership development, talent and team effectiveness capabilities. It overlaps directly with Mettle Global's Leadership & Teamwork and resilience offerings, though typically via larger-scale enterprise programmes.

Direct peers

• Kroll: Kroll is a global investigations, risk consulting and cybersecurity firm with established crisis management and business continuity practices. It is the closest direct peer to Mettle Global in combining risk advisory, crisis response, and senior-led consulting engagements for enterprises.
• Control Risks: Control Risks is a specialist crisis, security and political risk consultancy whose crisis management, preparedness and resilience offerings directly overlap with Mettle Global's core service lines. Both firms sell senior-led, project-based risk and resilience engagements to enterprise clients.
• Nous Group: Nous Group is a leading Australian-headquartered management consultancy with public sector and organisational performance practices. It is closely comparable to Mettle Global by geography and headcount, and overlaps in leadership, strategy and organisational advisory work.

Emerging players

• S-RM: S-RM is a global corporate intelligence and risk consultancy with crisis management, cyber security and response practices. It is comparable to Mettle Global on crisis and resilience advisory but is at an earlier commercial stage and typically more investigation-led.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubepodcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-unforgiving60/id1450741777
• Facebookfacebook.com/mettleglobal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mettle-global-holdings/?originalSubdomain=au
• Instagraminstagram.com/mettleglobal
• Xx.com/mettleglobal

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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