Strategic risk consultancy

Better decisions
under uncertainty.

A strategic risk consultancy, working alongside the people responsible for seeing the whole picture.

What we do

Working with uncertainty.

We help risk teams work more deliberately with uncertain conditions: reading emerging change, testing the assumptions beneath current strategy, and exploring what may affect longer-term viability.

This is not a new framework to adopt or another process to manage. It works through the conversations and governance already in place, helping strategic risk stay connected to live decisions and the conditions shaping the organisation's future.

01

Strategic risk diagnostics

A structured reading of the risk portfolio, built to fit the annual risk cycle.

02

Methodology development

Bespoke methods for strategic risk assessment, appetite, and horizon-scanning.

03

Board & committee support

Independent challenge and facilitation on strategic risk posture.

04

Early-stage advisory

Strategic risk for start-ups and scale-ups, proportionate to stage.

Our approach

Three Horizons,
applied to risk.

We draw on Three Horizons to read what is at play in a strategic landscape: the system that dominates today, the disruptions already emerging within it, and the longer-term shifts reshaping what is possible.

Applied to strategic risk, it brings three present-tense patterns into view:

H1
Today's system
Risks running through the current model and operating assumptions.
H2
Disruptions
Change already underway, including tensions, innovations and transition dynamics.
H3
Longer-term viability
Shifts that may reshape what remains possible, valuable or legitimate over time.

Our work with Bill Sharpe, co-originator of Three Horizons, brings foresight rigour into strategic risk. For organisations wanting to build this discipline internally, we partner with Future Stewards to provide practitioner-level Three Horizons training.

Team

Senior experience, applied in practice.

Layla Peirce

Layla Peirce

Founder

Strategic and operational risk practitioner. Three Horizons foresight practitioner.

Andrew Wildon

Andrew Wildon

Senior advisor

Former Chief Risk Officer. Board-level risk governance and appetite.

Olivia Sibony

Olivia Sibony

Senior advisor

Specialist in strategic risk for start-ups and scale-ups.

Supported by a network of associates across risk, governance, and foresight practice.

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To discuss strategic risk, emerging risk or foresight-related work, please get in touch.