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1. Consultancies completed


  • “Most organisations are suspicious of “consultants” and most of us have had to clear up the mess after they have left.  Your style and approach was entirely different and putting matters into context we have implemented your recommendations in full and without hesitation”.   Chief Fire Officer UK.
  •  “At short notice, David has provided the Bank with expert and well balanced advice on the way that we manage some of our major operational risks.  His substantial experience of these risks and the workings of large corporate clients lend him an authority and an immediate effectiveness which are rare in an external consultant.”  National Westminster Bank Group. UK
  •  “I thought both exercises were conducted in a highly professional manner”.  Royal Sun Alliance UK
  • “We were delighted with the exercise”.  Eagle Star Life (Ireland)
  •  “David Kaye brought to the task enormous commitment, energy and initiative.  He has proved to be an able organiser and has that happy knack of getting people to work together.”  Chief Constable
  •  “Most of all, and the key which triggers the best out of his other characteristics, he is a peoples person.  Whether communication orally or in writing with large audiences or person to person, one is clearly left with the impression of a man who warrants our trust, our time and our admiration.” B.A.T Industries
  •  "As always your calm and steady, but quietly persuasive, manner and approach has enabled us to, firstly prepare, and most importantly sell to our people, an excellent Disaster Recovery Plan.  I look forward to a continuing working relationship to ensure we keep the plan up to date". Württembergische Reinsurance
  •  “…let me thank you for the work you put in preparing for and planning the exercise workshop on Friday.  …. the delegates found it lively, informative and stimulating; as I did”.  Ecclesiastical Insurance Group UK
  •  Thank you for all your very professional session, which achieved exactly what I wanted. I now need to make sure the ideas are recorded on an improved business continuity plan. Elim Housing 2007

2. Speaking, workshops and writing


  •  Your presentation was excellent. You left the room buzzing and we have had fantastic feedback from both delegates and staff. Business Development Director; BSI management systems. London May 2008.
  • I just wanted to thank you one more time for the brilliant presentation you made this morning and the judicious advice you gave me. I will implement them in my business (and personal) strategy and tell you if they work. Chef de Projet, Gestion des Crises, GORO NICKEL. October 2008
  • Voted best speaker by the 250 delegates at EPICC three-day conference. Vancouver 2006
  •  “In my understanding David is one of the most outstanding risk management speakers I ever heard in my professional life.  His presentation in Athens was fantastic in a mixture of professional wisdom and linguistic sense of humour”.  Risk Professor and past Risk Manager of BMW.
  • “I want to thank you again for the superb presentations you made in Melbourne.  People still talk about them as I make contact on other matters.  Your two presentations, you will observe, came first and second!!” (In the delegates appraisal voting).  SURVIVE Australia.
  • “Thank you for your excellent presentation and moderation of the respective breakout sessions at our workshop in Singapore.”  Swiss Re.
  • "A jolly good read for a textbook". Chartered Insurance Institute
  •  “As you know your session at the 15th World Conference of Disaster Management scored high marks from attendees and we would like to invite you back to Toronto as a plenary session presenter”. WCDM
  •  “the topic of Business Continuity Management is growing dramatically in importance to Corporate executives, as the nature and the seriousness of threats to the business sector continue to be revealed. This book is a both a clear and insightful presentation of the concepts of business continuity management that should become a part of every executives book shelf.”  John Copenhaver, Chairman. Disaster Recovery Institute International.
  •  “This book is a must read for those senior managers, risk managers and continuity managers who have the vision to see both the new opportunities and the new responsibilities of business continuity management”. George J Mitchell. Former Senate Majority Leader and US Senator for Maine.
  • “This book is a clear presentation of the concepts of Business Continuity Management and contains valuable insights for any forward thinking business leader”. Royal Society of Arts library update re Risk management Approach to Business Continuity.
  • Thank you for taking the time to submit a presentation for the 17th World Conference on Disaster Management. I am delighted to inform you that your submission entitled “The Value of Insurances During a Disaster - a Fact or a Myth?” has been selected as a 1 hour concurrent session from over 340 submissions that were received from around the world. WCDM 2007 in Toronto.

  • When the graduate concentration in Emergency and Disaster Preparedness was created at Elmira College a year ago, our first class read "A Risk
    Management Approach to Business Continuity" as their first text. It was very well received and will be the text again this coming winter
    term. Congratulations on a very informative and professional book. Tom Phelan. Adjunct Professor at four American colleges and universities.