Renae Hanvin - Business Coaching - Pioneering Disaster Resilience for Businesses and ...

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Don’t Let Disaster Goodwill Ruin Your Reputation

When disasters strike it’s natural to want to help. And during the 2019/2020 bushfires, individuals and communities demonstrated unprecedented levels of goodwill giving in cash, goods and services and volunteering. But how much of that goodwill was helpful, and how much put communities in the red. Presenting global trends and local examples, Renae demonstrates how helpful goodwill is a two-way equation, and ineffective goodwill can set profits and reputations plummeting. Introducing her ‘token is broken’ solution, you’ll learn her 10-step approach to corporate disaster giving. Read less

Let them know you’ll be there

When disasters strike people seek leaders. At work, at home, in communities and government. Renae will show how every person in the room is a leader. And at times of crisis, how leadership can be the biggest asset to your people, reputation and profits. Providing case examples of global corporates who went from almost bankrupt to the number #1 brand in the midst of a disaster, Renae shares basic steps organisations can take to build trusted networks with internal and external communities. Steps that evolve their everyday culture and embeds resilience as an everyday norm. Read less

Resilient Ready?, Together

If your approach to disasters sits in a business continuity plan owned by a silo team member, it won’t help you thrive. Sharing her Resilient Ready? methodology, Renae will introduce the 4P approach where Prevent, Prepare, Promote and Protect sets a new, holistic, multi-stakeholder culture to getting ahead of disasters. With resilience the new vital business capability, Renae will demonstrate why everyday business as usual preparedness and resilience is essential (and achievable) for sustainable success. Read less

Understanding the disaster landscape

The disaster landscape is complex. Our federation-style government model, notion of shared (but not equal) responsibility and reactive approach makes it near impossible to understand. Using everyday language, Renae helps inform audiences across all organisations on the role they can play and where to stay away. Given the new era of more frequent, more destructive and compound disasters, Renae provides value in sharing her knowledge and experience of all stages of the disaster lifecycle – before, during and after impacts such as bushfires, floods, storms, cyber-attacks and pandemics. Read less

Renae Hanvin

Pioneering Disaster Resilience for Businesses and Communities

Renae Hanvin is a trailblazer in disaster preparedness and resilience, with over three decades of experience helping businesses, governments, and communities navigate risks and build stronger futures. As the CEO and Founder of ‘Resilient Ready’, a certified social enterprise, Renae leads a groundbreaking ecosystem designed to drive risk reduction and resilience for businesses of every size and industry, empowering them to protect their people, reputation, and profits.

Renae’s expertise spans strategic advice, crisis and incident management, and resilience program delivery. She has worked with iconic brands like McDonald’s, Australia Post, Toyota, Coles, and Mars, designing innovative solutions to safeguard lives and livelihoods. Her leadership has shaped responses to major crises, from McDonald’s handling of Swine Flu to Australia Post’s actions during the Brisbane Floods.

Renae’s impact reaches far beyond the corporate world, driving transformative community-focused projects as well. Through her organisation Resilient Ready and its precursor, corporate2community (C2C), she has spearheaded programs that connect businesses with communities to foster resilience. She has delivered a Business Community Resilience Toolkit for bushfire-affected regions, a white paper on business-community connections in the Blue Mountains, and is co-designing a climate adaptation tool with the Kangaroo Island community.

A passionate advocate for proactive disaster preparedness, Renae’s approach emphasises collaboration between corporates, governments, SMEs, and communities. She chairs the South Gippsland Shire Council Visitor Economy Advisory Group and has secured over $1 million in Federal and State funding to pilot resilience-building initiatives in disaster-prone areas.

Renae shares her knowledge as the host of the Doing Disasters Differently Podcast, a highly sought-after speaker at industry events, and a published thought leader. Her signature methodology, Resilient Ready, integrates innovative strategies to strengthen community networks, drive global wellbeing, and reimagine how we prepare for and respond to disasters.

Renae’s vision is clear: Let’s think differently, let’s do differently, and let’s set communities to thrive and businesses to survive. With her relatable, engaging style, Renae is available for in-person and virtual speaking events, bringing forward-thinking insights to audiences worldwide.