Interview with Lina Kolesnikova carried out by Magda Stepanyan, Founder & CEO at Risk Society

Lina Kolesnikova is the Fellow/Director of European & International Affairs of ICPEM (UK).

She has researched and written on a wide range of topical issues arising from recent events on the global scene and is also a frequent speaker and moderator at international events. 

Crisis leadership: when the operational team determines the outcome of the crisis

Barbara Mora Varela is a Strategic Advisor specialising in Resilience, Crisis Management and Security Leadership with over seventeen years of experience.

The current model of crisis leadership is so embedded in our training, in our frameworks and in our professional culture that it rarely gets examined: the leader as the central processor.

Preparedness Through Partnership

Catherine Piana is Director General of CoESS, the Confederation of European Security Services since 2014, representing the European private security industry vis-à-vis the EU.

On 22 March 2016, shortly before 8:00 a.m., the first bomb exploded in the departure hall of Brussels Airport, quickly followed by a second blast. Over one hour later, a suicide bomber detonated himself at Maelbeek metro station, one of the three main stations serving Brussels’ European quarter.

‍‍The Prevention Paradox: When Success Leaves No Trace

Emily Hough is the current Editor Emeritus, and former Editor in Chief and founder of
Crisis Response Journal, which she launched more than 20 years ago.

In 1994, my then-editor wrote an editorial for an anniversary of the firefighting publication we edited. Entitled, “Plus ça change,” it lamented the same issues being highlighted repeatedly by inquiries into fatal fires...

‍The Human Edge: Human-Centred Resilience in an AI-Enabled World

Kelly Blakeley has 15 years of experience in crisis management, resilience, and business continuity, working cross-sector including with government, critical infrastructure, financial sector, and emergency responder organisations across the UAE, GCC, and internationally.

Organisations are investing heavily in AI-enabled tools to improve situational awareness, accelerate information processing, and strengthen crisis response capabilities.

The Gold–Silver–Bronze command chain needs realistic tabletop exercises

Kim Covent has been working for over 15 years for local law enforcement in Belgium. She’s a trainer and designer specializing in behavioral detection and analysis, insider threat mitigation, and situational awareness.

Many organizations possess crisis plans but rarely stress-test command behavior and decision-making under realistic pressure. You have the necessary crisis plans, protocols, organograms, and communication templates.

‍When Good Solutions Go Wrong: Crisis as a Result of Misuse

Michael Kolatchev is a Co-Founder of Rossnova Solutions, a Belgium-based consultancy boutique. He is an expert advisor in payments, information security, risk and crisis management, working with private-sector organisations.

In crisis management, there is a strong tendency to look for failure: something broke, a system did not perform as expected, or a safeguard was missing. However, in many contemporary crises, especially in complex and highly interconnected environments, the root cause is not failure but misuse.

Beyond the Heatmap: When Risk Management Helps — and When It Prevents Organizations from Seeing the Crisis

Dr. Raphaël De Vittoris is Associate Professor of Strategy, Organization, Crisis and Risk Management at Clermont School of Business (France), 

Dr. Alireza Asgari is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management and Information Systems at Clermont School of Business.

Contemporary organizations no longer operate in a world where crisis is exceptional. They operate in a risk society marked by recurring disruptions, cascading interdependencies, and events once dismissed as implausible: pandemics, geopolitical shocks, cyber incidents, energy failures, climate-related disruptions, and logistics breakdowns.

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