Andy Osborne

Andy Osborne is a highly experienced business continuity, risk and crisis management consultant, trainer and author. In over 20 years as an independent consultant, he has helped hundreds of clients, of all shapes and sizes, worldwide and across a broad range of industry sectors, to develop, implement, prove and maintain their business continuity, risk and crisis management capability.

He is a firm believer that a) business continuity and crisis management is about developing a capability, not simply writing a plan and b) the role of a consultant or advisor is to simplify apparently complex processes and present them in a way that is easy to understand, not the other way around.

Andy is the author of several books, including Practical Business Continuity Management, Practical Business Continuity Management 2 and Risk Management Simplified. His entertaining and amusing blogs, which link his day-to-day business and personal life experiences (often somewhat tenuously, as he is the first to admit) to business continuity, risk and crisis management themes can be read at www.acumen-bcp.co.uk/blog.

Andy lives in a semi-rural idyll near Evesham in Worcestershire (UK) with his long-suffering wife, two (allegedly) grown-up sons, one dog and assorted poultry. He is a keen gardener, beekeeper (although currently ‘resting’ in the absence of any bees) and an enthusiastic, though largely untalented cricketer, hockey player, skier, golfer, guitarist and juggler. When not indulging in these pastimes he runs his consultancy business, Acumen (www.acumen-bcp.co.uk) and does the odd bit of business continuity, risk and crisis management consulting!

To contact Andy or to book him for consultancy work, training courses or speaking engagements, email him at aosborne@acumen-bcp.co.uk.

You can also follow him on Twitter (@AndyatAcumen) and/or link to him on LinkedIn (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/andyosborneatacumen). He doesn’t do Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or Pinterest and is unlikely to start doing so anytime soon.