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Dr Gavriel (Gav) Schneider is a global authority on risk, leadership, resilience and building high-performance cultures in uncertain environments. He is the Group CEO of the Risk 2 Solution group and the creator of the Presilience® framework and author of Presilience: How to Navigate Risk, Embrace Opportunity, and Build Resilience as well as two other books, Dr Gav empowers leaders and practitioners to move beyond compliance and traditional resilience, building proactive, opportunity-centric risk cultures that drive sustainable high performance.

With extensive experience running companies across the risk, security, safety and leadership sectors, and nearly a decade as head of ACU’s postgraduate program in the Psychology of Risk, Dr Gav brings practical, real-world insights to every engagement. His contributions to the field have been recognised with numerous awards including; being twice featured as an ISJ Influencer, 4 years in a row being recognised in the IFSEC  global thought leaders in Security list, 2 years in a row on the Life Safety Alliance thought leaders list, RMIA’s Consultant of the Year (2019) and Risk Leader of the Year (2023), he is also an award winning executive being a finalist and runner up in the CEO Magazines executive of the year awards for the last 3 years. Reflecting his commitment to helping organisations lead, adapt, and thrive in a complex world. He is also a lifelong martial artist holding  8th degree black belts in two different martial arts and black belts ranks in several others.