How prepared is the UK to keep functioning under sustained disruption and what should government, businesses and communities be doing now?
UDSS Co-Chairman General Sir Richard Barrons will join Lady Olga Maitland, Founder of The Resilience Imperative, for Chief Disruptor’s webinar, The Resilience Gap: Securing the Home Front in an Age of Volatility. The discussion will explore how the UK can strengthen its readiness for threats that reach beyond the traditional battlefield. View the event overview (Friday 16 October 2026 | 12:00-13:00 | Interactive Webinar).
For business leaders, this raises practical questions. Which services must continue through a major disruption? Where do critical dependencies sit? Who has the authority to act, and have those decisions been rehearsed?
Answering these questions makes resilience a leadership responsibility. A plan has limited value unless people understand their roles, suppliers understand expectations, and organisations have tested how they would respond when normal arrangements fail. Preparation should bring those responsibilities into everyday decisions about investment, operations and continuity.
These challenges are closely connected to UDSS’s work supporting governments and businesses, including strategic advice, leadership development, supply chain resilience and risk mitigation. Connecting defence expertise with organisational decision-making helps turn broad security concerns into practical priorities.
The webinar offers an opportunity to consider how the UK can move from responding to individual crises towards sustained preparedness and where each organisation can contribute.
Find out more about the webinar on the Chief Disruptor website.