The Business of Resilience

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Our Storytelling for Security Professionals workshops can be delivered for small groups, security leadership teams or global security team meetings and off-sites, It can be delivered in-person or virtually. 

There has never been a more interesting – or challenging – time to work in corporate security.

The Clarity Factory has a proprietary maturity assessment framework that provides an independent, structured and data-driven maturity assessment to drive insights into strengths and areas for development.

One of the most frequent questions CSOs get from the C-Suite is ‘how do we compare to our competitors?’ While informal benchmarking and information sharing among CSOs provides an essential ‘reality check’, especially

The Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, offers executive briefings for CSOs and their teams.

Her briefings draw on our Annual CSO Survey and industry-leading research, and include:

The Clarity Factory produces essential data, insights, operating frameworks, maturity models and benchmarking for CSOs and their teams.

The Clarity Factory offers a range of consulting services that support CSOs to enhance their performance, innovate their operations, develop their teams, and drive improvements to deliver best in class service to thei

‘The key trend for the future will be increased outsourcing, contracting, and sub-contracting, including by country heads of security.

Doing business is getting more and more complex.

This report seeks to understand what trends in the global business operating environment mean for the corporate security function: its value proposition, narrative and positioning, leadership, talent strategy, areas o

How physical and cyber security can join forces to strengthen operational resilience 

by Rachel Briggs OBE

The Clarity Factory produces research and thought leadership for professionals 

in corporate security, cyber security, resilience and national security. 

The Clarity Factory is the leading research body for corporate security leaders.

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Corporate security and crisis management has changed drastically in recent years.

New report from The Clarity Factory presents a model for effective, business-enabling corporate security in a volatile and complex global business environment.

“We know that… diverse teams are stronger teams.

The Clarity Factory Holistic Security Maturity Model provides a frame

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, spoke to Emma Barrett on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about the plight of the women and children held hostage in Gaza. Interview: 17 October, 2023.

The Clarity Factory will launch its Annual Corporate Security Survey in 2025, which will provide vital longitudinal benchmarking data for CSOs and their teams.

Organizations are faced with increasingly complex, complicated and fast-moving challenges – internally and externally – and corporate security leaders need to find new ways to deliver resilience

Rachel Briggs of The Clarity Factory and Cynthia Marble of Ontic explore the impact of increased activism and protest on executive risk and EP p

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, spoke to Anna Botting of Sky News about the hostage crisis in Gaza on Sunday 15 October 2023.

The role and purpose of the corporate security function has changed due to several trends both inside of, and external from, the business.

A national museum suffers an IT outage after a terminated technology contractor gains access to an unauthorised area of the building and turns off the IT systems.

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, spoke to Claire Meyer at Security Management Magazine about the ways in which changing geopolitics and global volatility and impacting the C-Suite - and how CSOs must adapt.

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, spoke with Colin Murray on BBC Radio 5 Live on 18 October 2023 about the hostage crisis in Gaza, what the families might be experiencing, and the challenges of surviving surviva

A range of wicked and complex global challenges – from COVID to climate change – are testing the limits of the ‘big men’ of geopolitics and heralding the arrival of a new generation of leaders who are responsive, data

Our CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, joined BBC News to talk about the hostage crisis in Gaza, what lies ahead and the plight of the hostages and their families.

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, spoke to Sky News journalist, Josephine Franks, about the hostage situation in Gaza.

The Clarity Factory Founder and CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, shared her predictions for 2025 in Ontic's annual forecast.

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