DEEP EXPERTISE
A boutique firm specializing in exercise design
After nearly a decade running a risk-consulting practice called Northly Risk, and working with some of North America’s largest organizations, we saw a clear trend: clients loved our exercises, and wanted more.
So we leaned in. With nearly 20 years of experience designing high-impact exercises, we launched Frontier Risk, a boutique firm dedicated to delivering world-class exercises and simulations .
Immersive.
Realistic.
Effective.
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Tabletop Exercises
Expert-led tabletop exercises focused on your priority scenarios and decisions, powered by advanced facilitation and innovative multimedia to maximize engagement and achieve your desired outcomes.
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Realistic Simulations
Surprisingly realistic simulations designed to replicate real-life incidents and pressures. We use dynamic injects (e.g. video, actor phone calls, news reports), escalating conditions, and practical hands-on activities to create heightened realism and value.
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Advanced Functional Exercises
Extended live simulations that fully replicate a real incident. Participants receive realistic, time-pressured injects (e.g. emails, live phone calls) and are prompted to act out their roles in real time (e.g. issuing notifications and hosting live calls). This format delivers deeply practical experience and insights that go far beyond what a tabletop provides.
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Select Strategic Advisory
Alongside our exercises, we offer select advisory support across operational risk, crisis management, incident management, and business continuity. Having led a boutique risk consulting firm for over a decade, we draw on extensive industry experience to help clients strengthen their programs and address their complex operational risk needs.
KEY FOCUS AREAS
Cross-functional expertise and direct industry work experience across domains.
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Crisis & Incident Management
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Business Continuity & Resilience
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Cyber & Information Security
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Operational Resilience
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Health & Safety
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Security & Life Safety
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Emergency Management
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Crisis Communications
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Legal and Data/Privacy Breach
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Facilities Management
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Other related domains and disciplines
WHY FRONTIER?
Experience you can trust. Results you can rely on.
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This is what we do
Exercises aren’t a side offering - they’re our core business. We specialize exclusively in designing and delivering high-quality exercises that stand out for their realism and impact. It's why nearly all of our clients return for follow-up projects year after year.
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Grounded in real-world experience
Before consulting, we led real crisis and emergency events in Canada and internationally, hands-on operational experience most firms simply don’t have. Combined with our work in financial services, technology, healthcare, and the broader private sector, we understand how organizations actually function under pressure.
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Best practice + creative innovation
We’re formally trained in industry-leading exercise frameworks, but it’s our innovation that truly sets us apart. We integrate advanced multimedia, experiential elements, and sophisticated injects to create highly immersive scenarios that far surpass typical sessions. We also bring advanced facilitation techniques (honed through years of leading high-stakes exercises) to ensure every session is engaging, well-paced, and expertly guided.
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