WHO WE ARE
Andrew Barnes Consulting supports organisations across the UK and internationally within critical infrastructure, and regulated sectors to strengthen crisis-leadership and organisational resilience.
Drawing on more than 30 years’ experience operating in high-risk, high-pressure environments, we work with senior leaders to understand organisational vulnerabilities, assess resilience capability, and strengthen the governance, decision-making and command arrangements needed to lead through crisis and disruption.
We help organisations design clear command-and-control frameworks, develop practical crisis-management capability, and test real-world response through immersive exercising and targeted training.
Our work is grounded in extensive experience operating within the highest-risk and highest-trust environments, where clarity of decision-making, confidence under pressure and calm leadership are critical.
OUR SERVICES
ASSESSMENT & DISCOVERY
Understanding Risk, Capability, and Vulnerability
We conduct independent reviews and structured discovery to help organisations understand how leadership behaviours, governance arrangements and formal controls operate in practice.
Our work identifies vulnerabilities, challenges assumptions and provides clear, prioritised recommendations to strengthen resilience, decision-making and organisational confidence.
CRISIS LEADERSHIP & COMMAND FRAMEWORKS
Strategic Command and Crisis Leadership
We design clear decision-making, authority and coordination arrangements that enable organisations to lead effectively through crisis, disruption and uncertainty.
Our work translates strategy, risk, and policy into practical command, escalation, and governance arrangements, giving leaders clarity, confidence, and control when it matters most.
TESTING & EXERCISING
Testing Under Pressure
We develop and deliver realistic, immersive, and media-rich exercises, ranging from focused senior-leader discussions to large-scale, multi-stakeholder simulations.
Our exercises test decision-making, coordination, leadership, and organisational readiness under pressure, surfacing strengths, gaps, and practical opportunities to strengthen capability.
CRISIS & INCIDENT TRAINING
Accredited Development
We deliver accredited and bespoke training programmes that build role-specific crisis leadership capability at tactical and strategic levels, helping organisations demonstrate competence, assurance and readiness in high-risk and regulated environments.
Our programmes combine practical learning with real-world scenarios, giving leaders confidence to make decisions under pressure and operate effectively within command structures.
LEARNING, REVIEW & IMPROVEMENT
Turning Lessons Into Capability
We support organisations in capturing meaningful learning from incidents and exercises, translating insight into strengthened governance, plans, training and behaviours.
Our focus is on closing the loop, embedding lessons and driving sustained organisational improvement. We help organisations move beyond identifying issues to making practical changes that strengthen resilience and future performance.
ADVISORY & EXECUTIVE SUPPORT
Strategic Counsel
We provide trusted advisory support to CEOs and executive teams during periods of heightened risk, disruption and strategic uncertainty.
We also help executives prepare for crises by testing and strengthening the governance, business continuity and crisis leadership arrangements on which they depend. This builds confidence in how leaders support incident response and maintain strategic oversight under pressure.
