PREPAREDNESS · CAPABILITY · RESPONSE · RECOVERY
Prepared for
what comes next.
Practical advisory, capability development, exercising and review to help organisations make clearer decisions, strengthen capability and prepare for what comes next
About Forward State Advisory
Independent advisory for organisations operating in complex and high-consequence environments.
Forward State Advisory helps organisations strengthen preparedness, build capability, support effective response and move into recovery with greater clarity and coordination.
Led by Jud Howland, Forward State brings more than 20 years of experience across emergency management, incident management, recovery, security, humanitarian operations, training and complex operational environments.
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PREPAREDNESS
Be ready before disruption starts.
Forward State helps organisations put the right plans, roles and operational arrangements in place before they are needed — strengthening readiness, clarifying how decisions and escalation will work, and preparing for complex or changing conditions.
Readiness reviews · Operational planning · Role clarity · Escalation & activation · Contingency planning · Stakeholder integration
CAPABILITY
Build capability that works when it matters.
Forward State develops practical capability through training, exercises, simulation and facilitated learning — helping teams understand their roles, practise decision-making and perform with greater confidence under pressure.
Role-based training · Exercises & simulations · Scenario development · Facilitation · Playbooks & role guides · After-action review
RESPONSE
Clear decisions when conditions are changing quickly.
Forward State supports organisations to strengthen incident management, coordination and operational decision-making during disruption — helping teams establish clarity, maintain situational awareness and coordinate action under pressure.
Incident management · Command & coordination · Operational decision-making · EOC operations · Multi-agency integration · Operational and Logistics support
RECOVERY
Move from impact to coordinated recovery.
Forward State helps organisations establish recovery arrangements early, transition effectively from response and sustain coordinated action over time — bringing structure to roles, priorities, information and stakeholder coordination as conditions evolve.
Recovery management · Response-to-recovery transition · Impact assessment · Recovery playbooks · Stakeholder coordination · Recovery assurance