Robert Hall

Research work

Robert’s work focuses on the nature of resilience, how it can be established and be imbedded in organisations, how a resilience mindset can be developed, and how various sectors can collaboratively improve national resilience. He is also interested in the parallels between the natural and human worlds and what common features of resilience they display.   

Robert has written and lectured extensively on risk and resilience topics. His focus has mainly been on the strategic context and its application through policies, procedures and programmes. He has consistently advocated an approach of preparedness (anticipation), speedy response (absorption) and agile recovery (adaptation). He has promoted the idea of whole-of-society resilience with wider engagements (community) and better education (learning).

Robert has written two novels with resilience as central themes.

Professional experience

Robert is an independent management consultant, author, speaker and innovator in the resilience, risk and security arenas.

He has 30-years’ experience of working with public- and private-sector organisations, both large and small. He has also established and managed new entities that have helped shape thinking on key strategies, policies and goals.

After a 17-year career in the British Army, Robert worked in senior managerial roles for commercial organisations such as Jane’s Information Group, Barclays, Marsh, BAT and G4S. He also served as the head of analysis for the UK’s National Criminal Intelligence Service (now the National Crime Agency), before creating and managing the Global Forum on Law Enforcement and National Security.

From 2019 to 2022 he cofounded and was the executive director of Resilience First Ltd, a membership organisation that encourages resilience in the round. He was a member of the Editorial Board for the first British Standard on Organisational Resilience (BS 65000:2014).

Education

BSc (Hons) in Zoology (University of Bristol)

MSocSc in Russian and East European Studies (University of Birmingham)

Defence Fellowship (MoD)