Our Mission
Anticipate. Adapt. Recover.
We empower businesses and institutions to anticipate disruption, adapt with intelligence, and achieve fast recovery — combining data, human-centred approaches, lived experience, and collective learning.
About GCBR
Building crisis-readiness worldwide
The Global Council for Business Resilience connects organisations, trusted experts, institutions, and government — with SME protection at the centre of everything we do.
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.
Why we exist
Mission & Vision
Be prepared for crisis = Be resilient = Recover faster
Our Vision
Resilience in organisational DNA
A resilient world where preparedness and rapid recovery are built into organisational DNA — because the best crisis response is crisis prevention.
What guides us
Our Values
Real-World Expertise
We believe theory alone isn’t enough. Our solutions are built on lived experience and tested in the most challenging business environments.
Impact-Focused
We measure our success by the resilience we build in our clients. Their ability to withstand and thrive through disruption is our bottom line.
Adaptive Innovation
We combine cutting-edge AI with practical business wisdom to create solutions that evolve alongside emerging threats.
Sector-Specific
Resilience is not a generic concept — it must be rooted in the reality of each sector. At GCBR, we reject one-size-fits-all playbooks and instead design precision-built strategies for the industries most exposed to disruption.
Strategic Advisory Board
Advisory team
Our team is our pride — practitioners dedicated to delivering real resilience outcomes, not theory.
Maryna Peikova
President / Wartime CEO / Resilience Catalyst
Wartime CEO and global strategist with 20+ years of leadership in FMCG, retail, and crisis resilience across 60+ markets.
Annalie Killian
Strategic Advisory Board / Change Catalyst / Network Orchestrator
Globally recognised change catalyst — from post-apartheid economic rebuilding to Fortune 500 innovation across Sydney, New York, and Paris.
Giovanna Questioni
Strategic Advisory Board / Transformation Leader
20+ years driving omnichannel excellence and AI-powered innovation for iconic brands across EMEA, North America, and Asia.
Nina Mimica
Strategic Advisory Board / Strategic Innovator
C-suite executive with 18+ years across retail, telecom, appliances, and advertising — strategy, transformation, and innovation.
Manuel Bissey
Strategic Advisory Board / Cybersecurity & Operational Risk
25 years in cybersecurity and operational risk across consulting and global tech — building security practices at scale.
Giuseppe Dal Mas
Strategic Advisory Board / Finance, Transformation & Growth
Global CFO with 25+ years driving financial performance and resilient growth across fashion, retail, and industrial sectors.
Jaime Bobbitt
Strategic Advisory Board / People Leadership & Organisational Development
Director of People Consulting at EY — large-scale organisation design, workforce transformation, and talent strategy across EMEIA.
Elise Buckle
Global Sustainability Leader & Catalyst for Change
Founder & CEO of Climate Bridges, Club of Rome member, senior advisor to the UN and World Bank — climate governance and systems transformation.
Work with GCBR
Partner with us, join the expert network, or bring your organisation into the conversation at the Paris Resilience Summit.