Renae Hanvin
Renae is the founder and director of Resilient Ready, a certified social enterprise driving a new ecosystem in business and community risk reduction and resilience. Her focus is to strengthen community networks and global wellbeing in this new era of disasters. Host of the Doing Disasters Differently Podcast, Renae consults to corporates, governments, councils, not-for-profits and SME/small businesses on risk reduction and social capital strategies, crisis and issues management, resilience program delivery and multi-stakeholder engagement. With over 20 years of disaster experience, Renae led crisis responses for McDonald’s during Swine Flu, actioned consequence stakeholder mapping for Emergency Management Victoria and steered Australia Post’s response to the Brisbane Floods. More recently, Renae released a white paper on business community connections in the Blue Mountains, designed a business community resilience toolkit for bushfire impacted communities and is co-designing a business climate adaptation tool with the Kangaroo Island community. Committed to saving lives and livelihoods, Renae delivers forward-thinking disaster resilience and preparedness solutions.
