RSI incorporates communication risk registers into strategic planning for public-facing and high-stakes communication efforts. The firm identifies and evaluates risks to message credibility and reach, and develops mitigation strategies. RSI uses these tools to support adaptive messaging and institutional learning, especially in polarized or evolving risk contexts.

RSI convenes and facilitates workshops to clarify and document uncertainty across risk domains. Participants are guided through structured elicitation, evidence ranking, and discussion of implications. RSI integrates these findings into its models, reports, and stakeholder messaging, ensuring that limitations are appropriately recognized and contextualized.

RSI facilitates adaptive capacity and vulnerability workshops as part of its work in climate risk, emergency preparedness, and health equity. It ensures participation from affected groups, frontline actors, and institutional partners. RSI captures insights in structured outputs—such as risk maps or priority lists—that inform both planning and resource allocation.

RSI facilitates data sharing through the development of data governance frameworks, anonymization protocols, and metadata standards. It advises clients on regulatory requirements, interoperability considerations, and stakeholder trust. RSI’s role as a neutral facilitator enables collaborative data exchange while protecting proprietary and sensitive information. This method is often foundational in projects involving multiple agencies or sectors.

RSI incorporates uncertainty characterization into all technical deliverables using consistent frameworks. Whether qualitative or quantitative, RSI’s approach ensures that decision-makers understand what is known, what is estimated, and what remains uncertain. This clarity strengthens the defensibility and utility of RSI’s risk-related findings.

RSI develops crisis plans across sectors, integrating risk analysis, stakeholder roles, and communication components. The firm tests these plans through table-top exercises and scenario simulations. RSI focuses on both strategic and operational readiness, ensuring that organizations can make decisions under pressure and recover efficiently.

RSI designs and runs workshops that draw out both expert and operational perspectives on emerging or systemic risks. Its approach combines participatory mapping, guided brainstorming, and pre-read materials. RSI ensures that identified risks are captured systematically and translated into inventories, matrices, or models that feed into larger risk processes.

RSI supports alignment through pre-event planning workshops, messaging templates, and interagency coordination protocols. The firm helps map messaging chains, test consistency under time pressure, and document roles. RSI draws from its expertise in both risk communication and governance to build systems that are timely, clear, and coordinated.

RSI develops risk trade-off visualizations to support policy dialogue, stakeholder negotiation, and public engagement. These tools make competing priorities—such as health, economic, and equity outcomes—visible and discussable. RSI ensures that trade-off communication is transparent, evidence-informed, and adaptable to both technical and public-facing settings.

RSI conducts policy surveillance to support clients in environmental regulation, public health law, and product safety. It builds structured inventories, applies classification schemes, and visualizes policy change over time. This method supports RSI’s understanding of the regulatory context in which technical risks are embedded.