
Corporate Risk
Intelligence-Led Risk for Owners, Executives & Boards
From vague concern to a clear, prioritized risk picture.
A large part of what we do at 1834 is helping organizations—and the people who lead
them—understand where their real exposure lives and what to do about it.
Our Corporate Risk & Advisory work is led by professionals with law enforcement, civil affairs, and emergency management backgrounds. We combine investigative discipline with crisis and continuity thinking, so you’re not just guessing which risks matter most.
This is for owners, executives, boards, investors, and GCs/HR leaders who want a realistic, operational view of risk—not just another spreadsheet.
How We Think About Corporate Risk
We don’t treat risk as a theoretical exercise. We look at:
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How people, behavior, and culture can create exposure
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Where operations, vendors, or locations are fragile
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How one incident could cascade into safety, legal, and reputational problems
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Then we help you narrow in on what matters most right now, matched to your size, stage, and
resources.
The goal is simple:
Know your risks, prioritize them, and address them early—before they make the decisions for you.
Organizational & People Risk
People are your biggest asset and your biggest liability. We help leadership see where that risk sits. Typical focus areas:
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Workplace behavior risk: patterns that can evolve into violence, harassment, or serious HR
matters
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Leadership and key-role risk: individuals whose behavior or decisions could damage the
company if left unchecked
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Terminations & transitions: layoffs, high-risk exits, or internal disputes that can turn into security and PR problems
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Domestic spillover: situations in an employee’s personal life that may bring risk to the
workplace
We translate these into clear, business-level risk statements and options, not just “HR issues.”
Integrity, Fraud & Vendor Exposure
We connect your integrity and investigations work to your risk posture.
Examples of what we examine:
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Where trust can be abused inside the organization (fraud, misuse of access, off-the-books
relationships)
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How vendors, suppliers, or partners could become a weak link
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Deals, hires, or relationships that look fine at a glance but don’t hold up to deeper scrutiny
We’re not there to create drama—we’re there to help you understand:
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What could realistically go wrong
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What might it cost (financially and reputationally)
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What you can do now to reduce the odds of a painful surprise later
Executive, Founder & Portfolio Risk
For founders, executives, and portfolio leaders, the line between personal risk and company risk is thin. We help by:
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Looking at how exposed key people and their families may be to targeted harassment, doxing, retaliation, or physical harm
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Identifying points where the company is particularly vulnerable—funding events, restructures, contentious departures, major launches
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Providing quiet, trusted support when a company inside a portfolio is going through turbulence and investors need a clear outside view
You get perspective from a team that has worked inside real incidents, not just written about risk on paper.
Crisis & Continuity as Risk Controls
Your crisis posture is part of your risk posture.
Our Corporate Risk & Advisory work compliments your Crisis Management and Continuity Plans by helping you answer:
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If something happens at this sight, to this team, or involving this person, what's the impact on the rest of the operation?
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Where are we resilient, and where are we one bad day away from a serious outage or PR event ?
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Are we structured to respond in a way that protects people, preserves options, and keeps business moving ?
We keep focus of practical resilience, not perfection. ​
Global & Travel Risk
For organizations with distributed teams, travel, or overseas touchpoints, we look at:
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Risk to staff in certain markets or regions
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Exposure tied to specific countries, partners, or operating environments
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How executives and key staff travel, who knows it, and what that means for safety and
continuity
This often ties into our Global Support & Travel Risk work, but from a leadership/board lens:
“What could go wrong for our people and operations, and how do we stay ahead of that?”
How Corporate Risk & Advisory Connects to Everything Else
Corporate Risk & Advisory is the “big picture” lens over:
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Protection – when specific people, locations or events become focal points of risk
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Workplace Safety & Training – when culture and behavior make violence or incidents more likely
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Investigations – when individual cases reveal patterns the organization can’t ignore
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Crisis Management – when you want an incident response structure that functions under
pressure
You’re not buying another silo. You’re getting a way to connect all the moving parts into one risk
posture.
Talk to Us About Corporate Risk
If you’re the person who gets the call when something goes wrong—and you’d rather not be surprised by it, we can help you build a clearer picture of your risk and the moves that matter most.