Deliverables
Crisis response playbook, decision-authority map, escalation protocol
— TIER I · PROGRAMS & COMPLIANCE
Playbooks for the moments leadership has not yet had to live through.
Crisis response architecture for executive teams and boards facing scenario-specific risk — geopolitical, reputational, kinetic. Plans that survive contact, because the decision points are known in advance.
— I.
The situation
"We have a crisis plan in a binder. We have never run it under pressure. We do not actually know if it works."
Crisis response architecture for organizations whose current plan was written for a different operating environment — or never written at all. Engagements include tabletop design and live facilitation, response playbook development, integration with corporate communications and legal, and decision-authority mapping that resolves the question every crisis surfaces: who is allowed to make this call, and when.
The deliverable is not a binder. The deliverable is leadership equipped to execute under pressure — with the decision points pre-authorized, the escalation paths pre-walked, and the after-action discipline already in place.
— II.
Who this serves
Executive teams and boards facing geopolitical exposure (operations or executives in elevated-risk jurisdictions), reputational exposure (active threat, public-facing principal), or kinetic exposure (sites, events, or assets with non-zero violence risk). General counsel coordinating cross-functional crisis preparation.
Engagements are sized to the matter — from a single half-day tabletop to multi-quarter advisory through a sustained period of elevated risk.
What is delivered
Exercise
Live tabletop facilitation and after-action report
Timeline
Typically 4 – 10 weeks; annual rehearsal recommended
Coverage
Retainer available for active-crisis advisory and on-call escalation
Fee structure
Fixed-scope for design; hourly or retainer for live advisory
The qualification
Mr. Deetz served on the Presidential Protective Division and as the U.S. Secret Service's Resident Agent in Charge in Moscow — operating environments where the cost of a missed decision point was not measured in inconvenience. Crisis architecture is taught here, not theorized.
Adjacent counsel within the same practice area.
- — i.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Threat assessment teams trained on the early signals.
- — ii.
Special Event & Rally Security Planning
From the architect of the rally interdiction plan approved by the President.
- — iii.
Travel Security & Advance Briefings
Advance work informed by service as a Secret Service attaché in Moscow.
