Briefings twice a month, the NATO CMDR certification, a working community, and office hours with the analysts, for the people accountable for crisis readiness.
30-day money-back guarantee on annual plans. Monthly cancels any time.
Crisis Lab Intelligence is a written briefing, twice a month, on one structural weakness that the next crisis will find in your city, your region, or your plan. Each issue explains why the weakness exists, which past events already exposed it, what to watch for, and what to do about it before a review board asks.
Executive briefings with experts from NATO, the UN, and the EU, the community, and office hours with the analysts come with either plan. Intelligence+ adds the Debrief, a one-hour video walkthrough of every issue, and the official NATO CMDR certification course.
You are accountable for the continuity of services and for the public record when a disaster reaches the city. The briefing shows you where your plan relies on a citizen, a warning system, or a utility that will not behave the way the plan assumes. Office hours put that plan in front of the analysts, and Intelligence+ adds the NATO CMDR certification your council can cite.
Readiness assumptions are tested by events that arrive from outside the plan. The briefing traces how a civilian resource, a supply chain, or a warning failure becomes a security problem before any adversary acts. Intelligence+ adds the Debrief, an hour in which the analysts walk through the evidence with you, and the NATO CMDR certification course.
Your work sits on the boundary between military response and civilian authority, where more than one layer of governance assumes someone else is in charge. The briefing examines what happens when an event moves faster than the central authority most plans rely on. The community and the executive briefings put you in the room with practitioners on both sides of that boundary.
You answer at the hearing, usually without staff who read threat analysis. The briefing gives you the structural question to ask before the event, in plain language, with the evidence behind it. The executive briefings come with either plan. Intelligence+ adds the certification, on the record, before the hearing.
Six things come with Intelligence+. Four of them come with Intelligence as well. The Debrief and the NATO CMDR course are the two that do not, and the next section takes those two on their own.
Each edition works one structural failure out in full. You get the assessment, a watch list, the toolkit you run against your own plans, and every source behind it. Each edition takes 20 to 25 minutes to read and comes in audio as well, and every judgment carries a confidence level.
A one-hour walkthrough of each edition, and it is Intelligence+ only. Two editions a month means two Debriefs a month. That is roughly 24 hours of walkthroughs across a year.
Delivered with the NATO CMDR Centre of Excellence in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is the only civilian access to official NATO CMDR certification, worth 2.2 CEUs. Standalone, the course costs $850. Intelligence+ includes it, access unlocks after your first 30 days, and it runs fully online with no travel and no separate fee.
Live sessions with experts from NATO, the UN, and the EU. They run alongside the editions, on issues moving right now. The format is built for discussion rather than a lecture.
The community is small and built to be multidisciplinary. Emergency managers sit next to public health officials, cyber specialists, and practitioners who run crisis management inside other countries’ systems. Office hours run alongside the editions and come with either plan.
Crisis Lab is an IACET Accredited Provider, and the catalog runs 17 courses, the Resilience Reference Curriculum among them. Each one carries accredited hours that go on your professional record.
The sample brief is four pages excerpted from a published edition, laid out as subscribers receive it. Inside are the cover, the contents page with the bottom line stated before any of the evidence, a preview of the toolkit with the first question shown in full, and both subscription tiers. Work through it the way a subscriber does.
The briefing is a document, and reading it tells you what we found. The Debrief is the hour that tells you why, walking through each edition’s findings, the reasoning behind the assessment, and what that means going forward.
The NATO Crisis Management and Disaster Response Course is the only civilian access to official NATO CMDR certification. None of the programs in the table below has a NATO certification.
For $6,490 a year, Intelligence+ delivers 12 months of crisis intelligence, the NATO CMDR certification course, and the community, with zero days out of the office. Two programs below charge less, and each still takes you out of the office for five to seven days.
| Program | Tuition | Days out of office | Credential |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMD, High Performance Leadership | $18,607 (CHF 14,900) | 8 | No certificate; alumni community access |
| Harvard Business School, Leadership for Senior Executives | $18,500 (lodging included) | 6 | Certificate of Management Excellence |
| Harvard Kennedy School, Leadership in Crises | $10,900 | 6 | None stated on page |
| Wharton, The Resilient Leader | $10,750 (lodging included) | 4 | None stated |
| Cranfield, Risk, Crisis and Resilience | $3,070 to $3,411 (£2,250 to £2,500) | 7 | Accredited option at the higher fee |
| MIT Professional Education, Crisis Management and Business Resiliency | $4,200 | 5 | MIT PE Certificate of Completion, 3.8 CEUs |
| Crisis Lab Intelligence+ | $6,490 a year | 0 | NATO CMDR certification course included |
A year of Intelligence+ costs less than four days of tuition at Wharton or six at Harvard Business School.
Unless you run your own practice, this belongs in your training budget, and you should not have to build the case from a blank page. The business justification kit is that case, already written. These are the questions it answers.
“Why not send you to a university program instead?”
“Why not buy a one-off course or a certification?”
“What does the organization get out of it?”
It answers each one, with the tuition table, the budget line to book it under, and a request email you fill in and send.
30-day money-back guarantee on the annual plan · monthly cancels at any time
Annual plans get 12 months for the price of 10
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Everything in Intelligence, plus The Debrief for every edition and the NATO CMDR certification course.
Intelligence+ is everything in Intelligence plus two things, the Debrief on every edition and the NATO CMDR certification course. The briefing, the community, the office hours, the executive briefings, and the course catalog come with either plan.
Yes. The annual program is $6,490 as a single purchase order or card transaction, and monthly billing at $649 is available where an office prefers it. For federal teams, $6,490 sits under the $15,000 micro-purchase threshold, so it can be approved without a full procurement action.
Annual plans have a 30-day money-back guarantee, and monthly plans cancel at any time. The course unlocks after your first 30 days, which is when the annual guarantee window closes, so a refund decision gets made on the briefings and the community.
Two editions a month, each 20 to 25 minutes to read, with an audio version if you would rather listen. Two Debriefs, an hour each. Everything else is there when you want it and not on a schedule you have to keep.
Four pages excerpted from a published edition, sent by email, so you can see the work before you pay. It shows the bottom line stated up front, a preview of the toolkit, and both subscription tiers, laid out as subscribers receive them.