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The Polycrisis Playbook: Why Leaders Must Be Ready for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
A single disruption will not define 2026. Cyber incidents will escalate into reputational crises. Climate events will strain fragile infrastructure. Geopolitical shocks will reshape supply chains. Regulatory pressure will compound it all.
This is the polycrisis era, and the organizations that lead through it will be the ones that have already rebuilt their resilience programs for simultaneous, high-impact disruption.
At Bryghtpath, we’ve spent more than a decade helping the world’s leading brands, public-sector agencies, and nonprofit organizations navigate uncertainty.
The Polycrisis Playbook distills what we’ve learned into a practical guide for boards and executives preparing for what 2026 will bring and the years that follow.
Download the report to sharpen your resilience strategy, close the gaps that slow you down in a crisis, and position your organization to lead when disruption compounds.
What's inside The Polycrisis Playbook
This comprehensive Bryghtpath report gives board members and executive leaders a clear view of the 2026 threat environment, the gaps that weaken most resilience programs, and a proven roadmap for operationalizing resilience across the enterprise.
Inside, you’ll find:
The Ten Defining Threat Themes for 2026
A plain-language briefing on the converging threats that will shape the year ahead, including cyber and ransomware escalation, climate-driven operational disruption, geopolitical instability, regulatory pressure, AI and deepfake-driven crises, supply chain fragility, workforce and insider risk, misinformation at scale, infrastructure strain, and the leadership capacity gap.
Where Resilience Programs Fall Short
A candid assessment of why most business continuity, IT disaster recovery, crisis management, and crisis leadership programs are not ready for the polycrisis environment, with specific, recurring gaps we see across industries and the strategic cost of letting them persist.
The 2026 Resilience Roadmap
Five strategic shifts and the core pillars high-performing organizations are putting in place now, plus practical guidance on the Diagnose, Design, Deliver, Evolve process Bryghtpath uses to operationalize resilience at every level. Grounded in our proprietary Resiliency Diagnosis® methodology and the Resilience Operating Model®.
Equip your board, your executive team, and your resilience leaders to navigate 2026 with speed, clarity, and confidence.
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About the Author
Bryan Strawser
Principal | Chief Executive
Bryghtpath LLC
Bryan Strawser is Founder, Principal, and Chief Executive at Bryghtpath LLC, a strategic advisory firm he founded in 2014. He has more than thirty years of experience in crisis management, business continuity, crisis communications, and global security.
Bryan previously served as Chief Security Officer & Senior Director of Global Security at the University of Phoenix and as Senior Director, Global Crisis Management, Business Continuity, & Intelligence at Target, where he built and led the retailer’s global resilience program.
He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at Auburn University.
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