Assessment
Complete Business, Leader, Team, and Cyber. Each score becomes evidence for your chosen stream.
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Global Council for Business Resilience
Protecting SMEs. Building crisis-readiness worldwide.
GCBR is a social impact organisation. We protect SMEs, activate a global expert network, and create a platform for dialogue through the Paris Resilience Summit.
SME protection · Network · Platform for dialogue
Core news
Paris Resilience Summit 2026
03 November 2026Leonard:Paris
Organised by GCBR · Co-organiser École des Ponts Business School · Partner UNESCO Chair
100+
Experts in the GCBR network
International coverage — worldwide geographic reach
10,000+
Cumulative hours of experience
Crisis leadership in the field
90%
Of all businesses are SMEs
Backbone of the real economy
03 Nov 2026
Paris Resilience Summit
The issues we still avoid
Our operating principle
Collaborative Confluence
We cooperate, collaborate and create social impact through business resilience — as our approach. That principle becomes action through SME protection, our expert network, and the connector role we play — including the Paris Resilience Summit.
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Cooperate
Business, institutions, and government working in the same direction — shared standards, shared intelligence, and coordinated crisis-readiness.
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Collaborate
Experts, SMEs, and partners building solutions together — not siloed advice, but joint practice that travels across borders and sectors.
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Create social impact
Resilience that protects livelihoods and communities — because when SMEs survive disruption, the wider economy and society hold.
What GCBR does
Protect SMEs. Connect the ecosystem. Convene the summit.
The Global Council for Business Resilience is the connective tissue of crisis-readiness — safeguarding smaller enterprises, activating a trusted expert network, and linking business with institutions and government so resilience scales beyond any single organisation.
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SME protection
We put smaller businesses first — open assessments, full Academy access, crisis toolkits, and a clear path to a GCBR certificate.
02Expert network
A vetted community of resilience specialists — so organisations can find the right expertise when preparation, response, or recovery cannot wait.
03The connector
GCBR bridges business, institutions, and government — turning isolated effort into shared intelligence, coordinated standards, and action that travels across borders.
Services
Resilience solutions
Pick what you need — full detail on the Services page.
Diagnose & stress-test
Continuity & compliance
Our Experts
International resilience network
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Flagship convening
Paris Resilience Summit 2026
The Unaddressed Issues We Need to Solve
03 November 2026Leonard:Paris
A curated day for leaders from business, institutions, and government who refuse to prepare for the last crisis — with SME resilience at the centre of the agenda.
- Organised by
- GCBR
- Co-organiser
- École des Ponts Business School
- Partner
- UNESCO Chair
View summit page →SME Engine · Heart of the mission
From resilience check to GCBR certificate
One path: assess, train, close gaps, confirm, certify. Progress lives in your office.
Shared path
How the Engine works
Five steps — Learn and Toolkits both serve closing the gap.
01 02 Training
Build capability in the Resilience Academy — modules matched to weak domains.
Open academy →03 Close the gap
Pair Academy lessons with crisis toolkits where scores fall short of your stream’s gates.
Browse tools →04 Confirm
Pass required quizzes, then pass the practical tabletop (dTTX). No Pass → no certificate.
Open Certify →05 Certificate
Receive the English GCBR certificate for your stream — valid three years.
View models →
Four streams
Pick the certificate you are working toward
Resilient Leader and Organisation BASIC are free. ADVANCED and MATURE stay free through 31 December 2026; from 1 January 2027 they require a certification fee. Platform access (Assess, Academy, Toolkits) stays free.
- IndividualFree
Resilient Leader
Personal leadership resilience plus business evidence. Four assessments, Academy gaps, quizzes, and a practical tabletop.
Gates: Leader ≥70% · Business ≥65% · Team ≥60% · Cyber ≥60% · Index ≥65% · dTTX Pass
Open Resilient Leader → - OrganisationFree
Organisation — BASIC
Foundational company resilience. Same Engine path; organisation profile and BASIC gates.
Gates: Business/Leader/Team ≥70% · Cyber ≥60% · Index ≥65% · category floor ≥55% · dTTX Pass
Open Organisation — BASIC → - OrganisationPaid from 1 Jan 2027
Organisation — ADVANCED
Deeper continuity and cyber readiness. One organisation pathway in progress at a time.
Gates: Business/Leader/Team ≥75% · Cyber ≥70% · Index ≥70% · category floor ≥60% · dTTX Pass
Open Organisation — ADVANCED → - OrganisationPaid from 1 Jan 2027
Organisation — MATURE
Embedded organisational capability at the highest GCBR organisation level.
Gates: Business/Leader/Team ≥80% · Cyber ≥75% · Index ≥75% · category floor ≥65% · dTTX Pass
Open Organisation — MATURE →
Publications
Insights & intelligence
Research, briefings, and thought leadership from GCBR — and curated external references that shape the resilience agenda.
Insight
Business in the Era of Permacrisis
Why resilience is the new capital — operational, financial, leadership, cyber, climate, and technological priorities for leaders navigating permanent disruption.
Maryna Peikova
Read →Assessment
The Resilience Imperative: Building Business Foundations for Societal Stability
A GCBR strategic assessment of convergent crises and why resilient businesses become stabilizing infrastructure for societies under pressure.
GCBR
Read →External
The State of Business Resilience 2025
Industry benchmarking referenced in GCBR governance work — how resilience expectations are evolving beyond ISO 22301.
Disaster Recovery Journal / Forrester
Read →Network
Partnership & collaborators
We build resilience with institutions that shape knowledge, risk practice, and SME finance worldwide.
Creating social impact together
Partner with us — through the Summit, Experts Network, SME Platform, or institutional partnerships. We build resilience side by side.
- Paris SummitTickets & agenda
- Experts NetworkFind or join specialists
- SME PlatformAssess · Learn · Toolkits
- PartnershipsWhat we offer
Partnership