Renae Hanvin

Renae Hanvin is the CEO + Founder of Resilient Ready, a certified social enterprise driving a new ecosystem in business and community risk reduction and resilience. Her focus is to strengthen community networks and global wellbeing in this new era of compounding disasters.

Host of the Doing Disasters Differently Podcast, Renae consults to corporates, governments, councils, not-for-profits and SME/small businesses on risk reduction and social capital strategies, crisis and issues management, resilience program delivery and multi-stakeholder engagement.

Delivering innovative solutions, Renae is transforming the disaster risk reduction and resilience sector across Australia by building a new culture of resilient and ready people in businesses of any size, structure, location, and industry- including not-for-profits and Government entities.

Renae has an MBA (Executive), Cert IV in Training and Assessment and is IAP2 certified as a stakeholder engagement practitioner.  With over 20 years of disaster experience, in her early career Renae led crisis responses for McDonald’s during Swine Flu, actioned consequence stakeholder mapping for Emergency Management Victoria’s Victorian Fire Management Strategy and steered Australia Post’s response to the 2015 Brisbane Floods.

More recently Renae won a 2023 Resilient Australia Business Award in South Australia for her business adaptation tool co-designed with the Kangaroo Island community. She is currently leading the development of a National Social Capital and Social Infrastructure Measurement Framework with Professor Daniel P. Aldrich to position ‘people networks’ and the ‘places where people connect’ as a core foundation in future focus and investment for national resilience.  

Committed to saving lives and livelihoods, Renae delivers forward-thinking disaster resilience and preparedness solutions.