ResOrgs

What ResOrgs does

ResOrgs (formerly Resilient Organisations) is a Christchurch, New Zealand-based consulting, research, and training organization established around 2004-2005 that specialises in organisational resilience and risk management. The firm advises primarily New Zealand central and local government agencies alongside a small number of enterprise clients (utilities, primary industries) and academic partners including the University of Canterbury, QuakeCoRE, and Massey University. Its intellectual property is built around a longitudinal dataset of 1,000+ organisations surveyed through the Canterbury earthquake recovery work, proprietary benchmarking tools, and peer-reviewed publications.

ResOrgs monetises through custom-priced consulting engagements, government-funded research contracts, and training courses (including CIMS-aligned programmes tied to NEMA standards) delivered via its partnership with RRANZ. Pricing is quote-based rather than productized, and the customer base is concentrated within NZ public-sector resilience budgets, supplemented by selected Asia-Pacific engagements (notably the Manaaki Scholarships Programme in Southeast Asia) and awards recognition from RiskNZ (2022, 2024).

The firm operates with 11-50 staff and pursues selective expansion into adjacent verticals (climate adaptation, built-environment resilience via the NZSEE Resilient Buildings Project, corporate security through ASIS International). Its strategic posture is that of a niche specialist deepening domain authority rather than pursuing broad-market scaling, with a 2025 rebrand to ResOrgs signalling a refresh of market-facing identity.

Name

ResOrgs

Legal name

Resilient Organisations

Website

https://resorgs.org.nz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ResOrgs is a Christchurch-based consulting, research, and training firm specialising in organisational resilience and risk management, serving primarily New Zealand government agencies with select enterprise and Asia-Pacific engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organizational Risk & Resilience Consulting

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Supply Chain Risk, Resilience & Business Continuity (BPAHAHAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Risk Management (BPADALAK), Turnaround, Restructuring & Crisis Management Consulting (BPAHACAO), Adaptation & Resilience Planning Platforms (CAPEX Prioritization, Cost–Benefit, NBS) (EUABALAH)

Keywords

• Organizational resilience consulting
• Emergency management training
• Crisis response services
• Risk management consulting
• Climate adaptation planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Christchurch

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Fee-for-service consulting engagements providing risk and resilience expertise to organizations, including crisis response planning, risk assessments, and organizational resilience consulting.
2. Training Courses: Revenue from delivering emergency management training courses through partnerships like RRANZ, including CIMS PIM, Recovery Function, and other emergency management courses.
3. Government-Funded Research: Research contracts and grants from government agencies including MBIE, EQC, Toka Tū Ake, BRANZ, and NEMA for resilience and risk-related research projects.
4. Publications and Resources: Sale of resilience guides, booklets, and publications including the 'Resilient Organizations' book and various downloadable resources.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ResOrgs is a Christchurch, New Zealand-based consulting, research, and training organization specializing in organizational risk and resilience. It delivers six core service lines (crisis response & recovery, crisis & emergency management training, organizational resilience, risk management & decision-making, climate change risk & adaptation, and risk & resilience research), supported by proprietary assessment tools, publications, and government-funded research programmes for clients across the public sector, private sector, and local/national governments.

Product overview

ResOrgs (formerly Resilient Organisations) is a consulting, research, and training organization specializing in organizational risk and resilience. The company operates as a single-service consultancy organized into six interconnected service lines: Crisis Response & Recovery, Crisis & Emergency Management Training (delivered through the RRANZ partnership), Organisational Resilience, Risk Management & Decision-Making, Climate Change Risk & Adaptation, and Risk & Resilience Research. These services are supported by a portfolio of practical tools (Organisational Resilience Benchmark Tool, Employee Resilience Tool), publications (Resilient Organizations book, resilience booklets and guides), and specialized research projects (NZSEE Resilient Buildings Project, Let's Talk About Risk, MERIT). The company also offers training courses including CIMS PIM, CIMS Recovery Function, and CIMS Intelligence, available through NEMA's Takatū platform. ResOrgs works with clients across public sector, private sector, and government, primarily in New Zealand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crisis Response & Recovery Services
• Crisis & Emergency Management Training
• Organisational Resilience Services
• Risk Management & Decision-Making Services
• Climate Change Risk, Resilience & Adaptation Services
• Risk & Resilience Research
• Organisational Resilience Benchmark Tool
• Employee Resilience Tool
• Resilient Organizations Book
• Resilience Booklets & Guides
• Potable Water Resilience Primer

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1000 organisations surveyed and interviewed over 6 years following Canterbury earthquakes, creating a broad and rich dataset of insights for organisational resilience
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• RRANZ (Recovery and Resilience Aotearoa New Zealand)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResOrgs is a proud partner in RRANZ, a training consortium delivering national-level emergency management training. Together they offer courses including CIMS PIM, CIMS Recovery Function, and other emergency management training programmes to make high-quality training accessible to everyone with a role to play in emergency management.
• QuakeCoREcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuakeCoRE (Quake Centre) provided funding for the Board's Role in Crisis research project. ResOrgs worked with QuakeCoRE to conduct research on how boards can effectively manage through crisis situations.
• New Zealand Institute of DirectorsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe New Zealand Institute of Directors supported the Board's Role in Crisis research project, providing access to board-level participants and endorsement for the research findings.
• ASIS InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResOrgs supported ASIS International in examining the critical role of security in operational resilience. Contributed to a report on how security professionals can evolve from protective gatekeepers to strategic resilience enablers.
• The Resilience ShiftcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with The Resilience Shift to develop industry-specific primers and resources. Together they produced the Potable Water Resilience Primer with 17 recommendations for the water sector.
• Massey UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for research and training delivery. Massey University hosts RRANZ courses at their Wellington campus. ResOrgs also collaborates with university researchers on various projects including the Joint Centre for Disaster Research.
• Joint Centre for Disaster Research (Massey University)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint development of seismic risk resources for commercial building tenants, combining ResOrgs' resilience expertise with the Centre's disaster research capabilities.
• New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on the Resilient Buildings Project, funded by Toka Tū Ake EQC, to understand societal expectations for seismic performance of buildings in New Zealand.
• Toka Tū Ake (EQC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment-funded research partnership for seismic risk and resilience projects including the Resilient Buildings Project investigating societal expectations for building seismic performance.
• Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMBIE-commissioned research projects on seismic risk mitigation including public willingness to pay studies and seismic risk communication resources for building users.
• BRANZcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBuilding research partnership producing guidance documents including the guide for communicating seismic risk information with commercial building tenants.
• National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with NEMA on training package development for emergency management capability building across public and private sectors. Courses available on NEMA's Takatū online learning platform.
• Manaaki Scholarships ProgrammeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResOrgs Director Tracy Hatton facilitates the Manaaki Disaster Risk Reduction course for scholarship recipients from Southeast Asian countries, building practical capability in risk assessment and community resilience.
• Urban IntelligenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on climate risk assessment and adaptation planning projects, including work with Buller District Council.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte (Resilience Services): Global advisory firm with significant climate, resilience, and crisis management practices including NZ presence. Comparable to ResOrgs in delivering climate adaptation, business continuity, and operational resilience advisory to enterprise and public-sector clients.
• PwC (Crisis & Resilience): Global advisory firm with a crisis, risk, and resilience consulting practice serving enterprise and government. Comparable to ResOrgs in offering organizational resilience, BCM, and climate risk advisory as part of a broader consulting portfolio.
• Marsh Advisory (Resilience): Global risk advisory and brokerage firm with a dedicated resilience, risk consulting, and climate practice. Comparable to ResOrgs in providing enterprise risk management, business continuity, and resilience advisory to corporate and public-sector clients.
• AECOM (Resilience & Climate Adaptation): Global infrastructure consultancy with a climate adaptation, resilience, and natural hazards practice. Comparable to ResOrgs in advising government and infrastructure operators on resilience strategy, with significantly broader geographic and service-line scale.
• KPMG (Enterprise Resilience): Global professional services firm with a dedicated enterprise resilience, crisis management, and operational risk practice. Comparable to ResOrgs as an incumbent offering overlapping organizational resilience advisory to large enterprise and government clients.

Direct peers

• Control Risks: Global specialist risk consultancy covering crisis management, organizational resilience, and security advisory. Comparable to ResOrgs as a specialized risk and resilience advisor serving enterprise and government clients, with deeper geographic scale.
• BCI (Business Continuity Institute): Global membership and certification body for business continuity and resilience professionals. Closely comparable to ResOrgs as both deliver training, certification pathways, and thought leadership in organizational resilience and BCP, often partnering with national emergency-management frameworks.
• DRI International: Resilience and disaster recovery training and certification organization serving both public and private sectors. Highly comparable to ResOrgs in delivering practitioner-level resilience and emergency management education, including through government partnerships.

Regional players

• Tonkin + Taylor: New Zealand-based environmental and engineering consultancy with significant resilience, hazards, and disaster recovery practice. Directly comparable to ResOrgs in the NZ market for seismic risk, climate adaptation, and infrastructure resilience advisory to government and utilities.
• Beca Group: Large Asia-Pacific engineering and advisory consultancy with a resilience, infrastructure, and natural hazards practice. Comparable to ResOrgs as a NZ-headquartered firm advising on critical infrastructure resilience and disaster recovery for government and enterprise clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/ResilientOrgs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/resilient-organisations-ltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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