The Resilience Operating Model™️

The Resilience Operating Model™️

Embedding Strength, Agility, and Confidence Across the Enterprise

Most organizations have the right components — business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery — but struggle to make them work together.

The result? Slow response. Missed signals. Eroded trust.

Bryghtpath’s Resilience Operating Model™ (ROM) is a proven system for integrating these capabilities into one clear, coordinated, and measurable approach — turning resilience into a strategic advantage.

What This Report Covers

Over the past decade, we’ve conducted dozens of Resiliency Diagnosis® engagements across industries. The patterns are clear: good intent, scattered execution, and disconnected plans that don’t scale when it matters.

In this whitepaper, we introduce the Resilience Operating Model™ — a framework built to unify, align, and operationalize resilience across your enterprise.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Diagnose the hidden gaps in your current program
2. Unify disconnected domains under shared governance and rhythm
3. Align resilience with business strategy and enterprise risk
4. Establish a system that evolves with your organization

What You’ll Learn

✔ Why most resilience programs fail under real pressure
✔ The hidden cost of fragmentation — and how to fix it
✔ The three layers of the Resilience Operating Model™
✔ How to unify BC, crisis, DR, comms, cyber, and ERM into one system
✔ How to implement the ROM in your structure and culture

A System That Unifies Resilience

The Resilience Operating Model™ is built on three integrated layers:

1. Core Domains – the capabilities every organization must manage
2. Enabling Functions – the connective tissue that turns plans into execution
3. Execution Lifecycle – how to build, deliver, and evolve over time

“This is the future of resilience: not a binder, not a plan – but a way of operating”

Download the Report

This 20-page whitepaper provides a complete walkthrough of the Resilience Operating Model™️ — including implementation steps, real-world examples, and actionable next steps.

Whether you’re building a program from scratch or evolving a mature function, this guide will help you operate with confidence under pressure.

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A Word from Bryan

“We built this model from what we’ve learned the hard way — in crisis rooms, across industries, and through dozens of Resiliency Diagnosis® engagements. It’s not theory. It works.”

— Bryan Strawser, Principal & Chief Executive, Bryghtpath LLC

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 over twenty-five 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.