Validation Exercise advisory services in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia. By Fixinc

Validation Exercise

corporate resilience advisory

We don’t just write strategies, we test them. Our validation activities give your people the skills, confidence, and structure to respond when it counts.

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Disciplines that define your resilience A modular approach to building your Validation Exercise program.

Validation Activities assess the effectiveness of resilience plans through testing, audits, and reviews. By identifying gaps and refining strategies, organisations can ensure their crisis response and recovery processes are fit for purpose.

To support organisations in achieving true resilience, we provide 5 Validation Exercise Disciplines that would - if validated annually - ensure true resilience. Each discipline can be adopted individually, but in most cases will form the majority of your Validation Exercise program with Fixinc.

When you first engage us, we review the progress of each of these Disciplines within your organisation to determine your current capability.

Crisis Communications Roleplay Drill

Training and Exercise

In a crisis, what you say, and how fast you say it, can define your brand. This module tests your communication response through roleplay, scenario pressure, and live messaging practice that reveals what your team is really ready for.

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Executive Scenario Exercise

Training and Exercise

Leadership resilience is just theory until it’s tested. This module puts your executive team in a real-time scenario designed to validate plans, challenge assumptions, and clarify decision-making under pressure.

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Operational Team Tabletop Exercise

Training and Exercise

Plans on paper don’t survive first contact with a disruption. This module tests your operational teams in a realistic, role-specific exercise that exposes weak spots and builds confidence where it matters most.

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Responder Capability Review

Training and Exercise

Plans don’t respond to crises, people do. This module reviews the confidence, clarity, and readiness of your response team, so you know whether your organisation is actually ready to lead under pressure.

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Multi-Agency Response Simulation

Training and Exercise

No crisis respects your org chart. This module tests how well your teams collaborate with external partners, vendors, or regulators, validating whether your response holds up under real-world complexity.

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First principles resilience.
Clear programs, collaborativ delivery, and a fresh take on resilience.

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Phase

Validation Exercise is the Planning Phase to our Tungsten Diamond lifecycle.

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Maturity

Validation Exercise involves 5 Disciplines to reach full maturity.

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Maintenance

Validation Exercise makes up a third of the Maintenance Program offering.

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act

Start a Validation Exercise program within 48 hours with our Consultation package.

We create the capability for organizations to evolve corporate resilience by providing tailored disaster recovery training, business continuity strategies, and validation exercises. Corporate resilience ensures the ability to adapt, withstand, and recover from disruptions like natural disasters or cyberattacks, safeguarding operations and reputation. Our disaster recovery training equips employees to respond effectively in crises, while practical exercises and simulations validate and enhance disaster recovery plans. With Fixinc, businesses are prepared to face challenges, ensuring readiness and continuity in an unpredictable world.

We do Validation Exercise the same way we run our own business; by simplifying processes, going back to first principles, and standardising programs so anyone at any time can adopt how you plan and respond to a disruption. When you engage in a Validation Exercise program with our Advisors at Fixinc, you are embarking on a partnership that is a collaborative effort, held together by strong and reliable communication. We're not your usual consultancy, we're something different, fresh, modern with a focus on the people that make up Australian, New Zealand, and Malaysian business. Still need convincing? Have a read of why UTSFairPriceOceanaGoldOptusEDLAuckland Memorial War Museum chose us in the case study below.

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The Tungsten Diamond

Understanding the Diamond

When we assess the maturity of your Validation Exercise, we measure this against our Tungsten Diamond model. This simple diagram maps the full corporate resilience spectrum; from compliance and planning, through to real-time response and technology. Our Advisory Board supports the end response, while our Directory and Resilience Services give you ongoing access to the tools, insights, and partnerships needed to strengthen planning. As a result, if you work with Fixinc, you are covered entirely.

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Client Portal and Advisory Board

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F24 is our go-to platform for emergency notification and crisis management. It enables rapid, multi-channel communication during critical events, ensuring your teams receive timely alerts and can coordinate effectively. Integrated with our advisory services, F24 supports your organisation in managing crises confidently and efficiently.​

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Brad Law, Co-Founder and Head of Consulting at Fixinc

Meet your advisor

32 years of incident management and business continuity experience including serving in the British Army.

Brad Law is Fixinc’s Global Head of Consulting and one of the region’s most experienced resilience professionals. With over 30 years in business continuity, IT, and crisis leadership across the UK, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, Brad brings sharp, practical insight to every session. He’s the architect behind the Tungsten Diamond framework and has supported governments, banks, universities, and utilities through real-world crises. If you’re facing pressure, complexity, or just need clarity—Brad’s the expert you want in the room.

From frontline crises to boardroom strategy, Brad has led resilience programs across four continents and every major sector.

You’ll get straight, actionable advice grounded in real events, not recycled frameworks or generic best practices.

This isn’t a sales pitch. Brad treats every session as an opportunity to help—and prove why Fixinc is deeply connected to the co-creation of resilience.

Frequently asked Validation Exercise questions

Training and validation is the single best way to confidently confirm response teams are prepared for any disruption. We take a mixture of ISO22301 standards, best-practice modules, and our unique executive crisis framework to ensure individuals are prepared to the highest level.

We start with an initial consultation to understand your needs and objectives through a 45-minute discovery call. This is followed by a digital proposal outlining recommended services, approach, timeframes, and investment required. We can then develop a detailed project plan based on agreed priorities. Once signed, an hours' engagement meeting is conducted within a 4 week window, and then the program begins.

We use a combination of engagement strategies, including stakeholder workshops, training sessions, communication campaigns, and practical exercises to build awareness and capability across all levels of the organisation. At a more general level, we build relationships with key members of your team through email campaigns, one on one meetings, and even connecting over LinkedIn. This builds trust and typically uncovers issues or ideas from more introverted colleagues.

Yes, and in fact, it is our core service offering outcome. At Fixinc, we're seeking to build lifelong partnerships with individuals and organisations. This does two things: it allows us to pore ourselves into the very fabric of your organisation and threat landscape, build relationships where we are always available to support you, and hold ourselves accountable to ensure your resilience capability is continuously growing.

First and foremost, it is the simplicity of our programs. Many organisations and professionals are led to believe that the "threat landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate", and whilst there is no legitimate data to support this claim, it only creates fear through marketing. We believe that resilience can be a simple, modern skill developed through building a culture of resilience, and removing the noise of bulky plans and poor technology.

Implementation timeframes vary based on organisation size and complexity, typically ranging from 6-9 months. We provide a detailed project plan with milestones and can phase implementation to address priority areas first. Our team are considered industry experts in project management and implementation. Typically, the only delay are stakeholders from your organisation. Our quickest program rollout was 4.5 weeks.

Fixinc tailors programs based on industry-specific risks, regulatory requirements, and your business goals through detailed assessments and expert consultations. Utilising hundreds of millions of threat intelligence data sets through our technology partnerships, we're able to create tailored programs for each organisation in any industry.

Initially, we need to understand your current resilience capabilities, regulatory obligations, key risks, and strategic objectives. We'll provide a detailed information request once we agree on the scope of engagement via our client portal.

Our pricing is based on the scope of services required, organisation size, and complexity of requirements. All activities start from a base investment that we can share with you. We provide detailed proposals with clear deliverables and can structure engagements to align with your budget constraints. Typically, our client base has an annual business continuity budget of $45,000 or an entire resilience program of between 55 and $100,000.

Our comprehensive suite of services helps organisations prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions through integrated approaches to emergency management, crisis management, IT disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. We align these with international standards and local regulatory requirements. However, at its core our programs and support gets into the heart of your culture and continuously identifies ways to simplify how you plan and respond to threats. People are busy, they don't have time to attend multiple, day long training. We make it simple.

Our team focus heavily on streamlined project management processes. We utilise our own technology to create implementation plans that make every step seamless. External factors (like getting your team involved with meetings) may impact time, but we have techniques to speed this up. Typically, a single program can take between 5 weeks and 3 months.

While ROI varies, organisations typically see benefits through reduced impact of disruptions, improved stakeholder confidence, competitive advantage, and reduced insurance premiums. We can provide case studies demonstrating value realisation.

We specialise in serving medium to large-sized organisations across New Zealand, Australia, and Malaysia (the Oceania and ASEAN regions), in both public and private sectors. Our clients include financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare providers, and major corporations. You can see a list of all our industries serviced here.

In most cases, you can expect programs to start from $10,000 AUD. However, reviews are as little as a few thousand. After we establish a scope of work and your requirements, we can provide you an initial quote within the same day of enquiry to pinpoint a more appropriate fee. We believe in long-term partnerships at Fixinc, so if budgets are a restraint, we can work with you.

Still have questions?

Over a no-obligation call, we will walk you through how are tools work for you to determine if they're right for you.

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