From Service to Resilience
A Multi-Discipline Discovery Course
Make Sense of Civilian Careers in Security, Crisis & Resilience
Leaving service doesn’t mean leaving behind your skills, experience, or the type of work you enjoy—work that matters to you, your organisation, and society.
The world is chaotic and civilian organizations face all kinds of disruptions every day:
- Cyber Incidents
- Insider Risk
- Supply Chain Failures
- Regulatory Breaches
- Reputational Crisis
- Operational Breakdowns
Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from these incidents requires many of the same skills and competencies you developed during service.
The difference is that civilian organisations may describe and approach these challenges differently from what you’re used to.
Many service leavers looking at roles in security, crisis management, business continuity and resilience struggle with the same question:
Where do I actually fit?
- Location: Live - Online (via Microsoft Teams)
- Next Course: 20th May 2026
- Duration: 1 Day
- Time: 09.00–16.30
- Digital Certificate & Badge of Attendance
- Price: £175 (SLCs and IRTC can both be used - click the button below for guidance)
- Sign up now! Places are limited to a maximum of 10.
A structured, scenario-based professional conversion course
The Problems Most Service Leavers Face
There are a range of fields and areas associated with the Resilience Sector:
- Security & Risk Management
- Incident Response
- Crisis Management
- Business Continuity
- Emergency Planning
- Operational Resilience
- Organisational Resilience
They all connect and overlap.
They use different terminology making job descriptions difficult to decipher
They sit in different parts of organizations and differ across a range of sectors
Employers may not understand how your service skills and experiences relate
Understanding the Resilience Landscape
Many military and emergency service leavers make the same mistake when transitioning to roles in these fields, they:
- Apply for roles they don't fully understand
- Jump straight into certifications (committing precious money and time)
- Underestimate how civilian organisations embrace & structure resilience
The result is confusion, wasted effort and lost confidence.
This course helps you understand, orient and translate the landscape so you can make informed decisions about your next step
Course Aims
By the end of the day you will:
- Understand the differences between key civilian resilience fields including security & risk, insider threat, incident management, crisis management, business continuity and organisational resilience
- Recognise the models, frameworks and approaches commonly used in these disciplines
- Understand how governance, regulation and compliance shape expectations in civilian organisations
- Translate familiar military and emergency service activities into civilian equivalents
- Identify one or two realistic career directions aligned to your strengths
- Interpret job descriptions with greater clarity
- Leave with a clearer understanding of your next professional development steps
Learn from those who have walked a similar path
Take the opportunity to train with prominent experts in security, crisis management and resilience
– who are also military and emergency service veterans
Mats Bohman
Highly respected Swedish crisis leader with frontline Counter-Terror experience
Mats is a founder of Murphy Solution and senior advisor in crisis management and strategic security, supporting executives and leadership teams at national and global levels.
Previously a tactical leader in the Swedish Police counter-terrorism unit, he brings more than 20 years of experience leading and training teams in high-risk environments and advising organizations on crisis preparedness.
Mats offers a unique and valuable perspective for those building careers in resilience.
Matt Ireland
British Army Veteran, crisis and operational planner who turns strategy into action
Matt is a risk, security, continuity and crisis management consultant and former British Army field officer.
During his service he specialized in high-readiness operational planning, serving with Airborne and Commando forces on deployments overseas.
After transitioning into the civilian resilience sector in 2024 he now helps organizations strengthen crisis preparedness, decision-making and response capability.
This makes Matt ideally placed to provide practical perspectives on building a second career in crisis, security and risk in the UK.
Craig Sumner
British Army Regular turned Reservist who creates calm in chaos
Craig is a British Army officer and senior consultant specializing in security risk, insider threat and crisis management across multiple sectors.
As a regular, he worked in signals intelligence, electronic warfare and defence engagement, supporting UK and NATO multinational HQs and crisis rooms.
Today he helps organizations prepare for and respond to crises and strengthen insider threat capabilities.
His transition to international consulting provides insight into how service experience translates into this field.
Course Content
After introducing the civilian resilience landscape we dive into the major career fields within it.
Through a realistic civilian disruption scenario, for each field we explore:
- What it is really for?
- Where it sits in the organisation
- Core principles and frameworks
- What employers actually look for
- Military and emergency service experience equivalents
A short session on governance, compliance and other internal and external influences of these fields introduces civilian organisational context
The course concludes with a resilience career navigation and translation discussion including a short reflective exercise to map strengths and skills to each field
This is not theory heavy. It is practical, comparative and focused on career clarity enabling you to compare fields side-by-side and work out where your skills, experiences and strengths align.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for:
- UK Armed Forces Leavers
- UK Emergency Service Leavers
- Public Service professionals transitioning to civilian or corporate roles
- Anyone from the wider family of FTG service users exploring resilience-related careers
It is especially suited if and of the following apply:
- You're curious but unsure which field may be for you
- You want to position yourself before applying for specific rolesUK Armed Forces Leavers
- You have experience operating in structured, high-stakes environments and want to understand how that experience translates into civilian resilience roles
Leaving UK military service and want to use Standard Learning Credits (SLCs) or Individual Resettlement Training Costs (IRTC) to pay for the course? No problem.
This training is eligible for SLC usage as “an external course of individual tuition which can be used to benefit Defense unless the individual is registered for resettlement” JSP 822 Vol 9 Ch 2 Para 3.1
SLCs cannot be claimed retrospectively, so you must submit an application before the course starts to get the course fee refunded afterwards.
- How to claim:
- Download and complete the pre-filled MOD Form 1950
- Complete the remaining details and get it approved by your respective service education or resettlement staff
- Sign up for and purchase the training course
- After the course:
- Resubmit the form alongside your completion certificate
- Get your refund (up to 80% of the course cost)
- Use IRTC to claim the remainder (optional)
Register your interest!
If you're interested in joining this course, click below or email Matt and he'll guide you through the next steps...
Still unsure?
You’ve made it this far, but if you’re still unsure whether this training is for you or want to know more, just drop Matt an email with your questions or queries.
Who are Murphy Solution?
Murphy Solution specialises in crisis management, preparedness and capacity building across the UK and Europe. We help organizations in both the public and private sectors become better equipped for the unexpected – through digital support, training, consulting and systematic development work.
Our team consists of experienced advisors and experts with backgrounds in defence, law enforcement and security, risk and crisis across the public sector, business and international operations. We are passionate about making difficult topics understandable – and about giving our clients, and those who learn with us, concrete results.
In the UK we are a certified partner of The Forces Transition Group and a premier provider of security, crisis and resilience oriented training.