The first hours of a crisis decide how the rest goes. A tabletop exercise lets your leadership team practice those hours in a conference room, not in the headlines. I design a realistic scenario around your business, facilitate the exercise, and give you a written after-action report that shows what worked, what didn’t, and what to fix first.
Most leadership teams know their top risks, but everyone has a different list. Enterprise risk management gets you to one list, with owners, priorities, and a regular rhythm for reviewing it. I keep it practical: no jargon, no 200-line spreadsheets nobody reads.
Once your plans are in place, they have to stay current. Fractional risk leadership gives you a senior risk advisor a few days a month, for far less than a full-time hire. I keep your continuity, crisis, and risk programs alive and I’m a call away when something goes wrong.
My career started in safety and operational risk, and it still shapes how I work. Continuity and crisis plans fail when they ignore the realities of the shop floor, the job site, or the warehouse. I bring that ground-level view to every engagement, and I continue to support clients whose safety programs are part of their broader risk picture.
Every engagement follows the same simple path, so you always know what comes next.
Clients work directly with me, from the first conversation to the final report. Here is what a few of them have said.
Dark Ocean works with organizations across the U.S. Planning workshops, risk interviews, and many tabletop exercises run virtually, and on-site work such as site walks and in-person exercises can be arranged wherever you operate.
Yes. Site walks and in-person tabletop exercises are often the best fit for on-site work. Interviews, planning sessions, and many exercises work well virtually. We'll pick the mix that fits your schedule and budget.
Yes. Book a free 20-minute risk conversation. We'll talk about what's worrying you and what you already have in place, and you'll leave with at least one practical next step. If there's a fit, I'll follow up with a short proposal with a fixed scope and fee.
Yes. Through fractional risk leadership on a monthly agreement, I keep your continuity, crisis, and risk programs current: regular exercises, plan updates, risk register reviews, leadership or board reporting, and advisory support when an incident happens. It gives you senior risk leadership without the cost of a full-time hire.
Yes. Safety and operational risk work is still available as a complementary service for enterprise risk clients, including site safety assessments, emergency response planning and drills, and safety program reviews. It's offered alongside continuity, crisis, and enterprise risk engagements so your operational and strategic risks are managed together.
You'll work directly with me, Brad Weger, founder of Dark Ocean. I'm a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, hold an MS and an MBA, and have more than 20 years of operational risk experience along with military command experience. Dark Ocean is a veteran-owned firm.
