Senior Resilience Expertise, Without the Full-Time Overhead
Meridian embeds experienced resilience leadership directly into your organization; on a fractional basis, for a defined project, or as a trusted outside advisor. You get the expertise when you need it, without the cost of a full-time hire.
What Fractional Resilience Leadership Looks Like
Most organizations need senior resilience expertise but can't justify a full-time Chief Resilience Officer or VP-level continuity lead. The fractional model solves that. You get a dedicated senior practitioner; embedded in your team, aligned to your priorities, and accountable for outcomes; at a fraction of the cost.
Embedded, Not Parachuted In
A fractional engagement means we work inside your organization; attending leadership meetings, engaging with your teams, and building institutional knowledge over time. This is not a vendor relationship. It is a leadership role.
Senior Expertise on Day One
You are not onboarding a junior consultant who will learn on your time. Every Meridian engagement is led by a practitioner with 25+ years of experience across financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries.
Right-Sized for Your Organization
Fractional engagements are structured around your actual needs; whether that is one day per week, a defined monthly retainer, or surge support during a critical program phase. The model scales with you.
Continuity Across the Engagement
Unlike project-based consulting that ends at delivery, fractional leadership provides ongoing oversight, program maintenance, and leadership continuity. Your resilience program does not stall between engagements.
Three Ways to Engage
Structured retainer engagements designed to meet your organization where it is; from building your first program to running a mature enterprise function.
Foundation
Startups, Series A/B, regulated industries, small market — building your first program
Proof point: Built business continuity plans for critical business units at a global apparel manufacturer — right-sized scope for an organization that needed a usable plan, not a full enterprise build.
Advisory level service with the following:
3-month minimum · monthly billing
Professional
Mid-market companies — active program management
An active program management engagement for organizations that need ongoing resilience leadership, structured governance, and regular stakeholder engagement. Covers the full program lifecycle from planning through exercise and audit support.
Everything in Foundation, plus:
3-month minimum · monthly billing
Enterprise
Complex enterprises — fractional BC/DR executive
A fully embedded fractional executive engagement for organizations that need a senior resilience leader operating at the board and C-suite level. Meridian owns the program, the governance calendar, and the stakeholder relationships — functioning as your VP of Resilience.
Everything in Professional, plus:
6-month minimum · monthly billing
Targeted Work. Defined Scope. Clear Deliverables.
Not every need requires a retainer. These engagements are scoped, priced, and delivered as discrete projects.
Where Traditional DR Falls Short
Cloud concentration and AI dependency are creating failure modes most recovery programs were never designed to address.
Most DR plans were built for clean failures; a downed server, a flooded data center. They weren't built for a hyperscaler regional outage that takes down hundreds of organizations simultaneously, or an AI dependency failure that degrades output quality without ever generating an error. Meridian works with clients to assess two risk categories most programs haven't tested:
Cloud Concentration Risk
Your provider's SLA covers their uptime. It does not cover your recovery time. We assess provider, regional, and service concentration against a four-dimension framework and quantify the financial exposure in board-ready terms.
AI Dependency Recovery
AI is now infrastructure, and like every infrastructure category before it, it will fail. We help organizations map AI dependencies, classify recovery priority, and close the human fallback gap before an outage forces the question.
Not Sure Which Model Fits?
Most engagements start with a 30-minute conversation. We'll listen to where you are, what you're trying to accomplish, and recommend the right structure; no obligation.