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Marjason Consulting DWC-LLC

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Founded in Dubai, UAE in 2013, Marjason Consulting specialises in Organisational Resilience offering training and consultancy services in accordance with international standards (e.g. ISO 22301, BS 11200, BCI GPG) and national GCC standards (e.g. UAE NCEMA 7000) in Business Continuity Management (BCM), Crisis Management, Emergency Response and Incident Management and related fields (such as Risk, Cyber Resilience, IT DR). Marjason Consulting provides certified & bespoke training, implementation, gap assessment and facilitates simulation exercises in order to validate Emergency Response, BCM and Crisis Management plans.

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Courses available

Business Impact Analysis Training Course

The BIA is the main technique used for analysing an organization and forms the Analysis stage of the BCM Lifecycle. It will help you review and assess an organization to identify its objectives, how it functions, and the constraints of its operating environment.

This 2-day course comes complete with course slides and Student Workbook that contains exercises to be completed throughout the course. The course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • Concepts of BIA
  • The four types of BIA
  • BIA methods
  • How the BIA information is used in the Design phase of the BCM Lifecycle

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Understand and apply the different methods available to conduct a BIA
  • Extract all the information you need from an organization to enable you to Design the most appropriate business continuity solutions

You will receive 16 CPD points and a Certificate of Attendance from the BCI on successful completion of the course.


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Location Date Duration  
Online (GMT+3), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 24 Feb 2025 2 day(s) Book
Online (GMT+3), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 16 Sep 2025 2 day(s) Book

*Price excludes sales tax


CBCI 2018 Certification Course

The course is for anyone that has business continuity responsibilities within their organization and/or anyone looking to develop a career in the industry:

  • Business continuity professionals already working in the industry
  • Business continuity coordinators/champions with responsibilities in their organization
  • Professionals looking to start a career in the industry
  • Those that have business continuity responsibilities embedded in their role in smaller organizations such as Managing Directors or Operations Managers

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Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises Training Course

This course aims to provide an understanding of how to design, facilitate and report on exercises for crisis, emergency and business continuity management programmes.

This 2-day course comes complete with course slides and Student Workbook that contains exercises to be completed throughout the course and other complimentary resources. The course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • The Value of Exercise Programmes
  • Exercise Design
  • Exercise Scenario
  • Exercise Preparation
  • Exercise Delivery and Reporting

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Appreciate the rationale for validating plans and the value this brings
  • Apply good practice to exercise programmes
  • Select appropriate exercise aims, objectives and formats
  • Explore the development of realistic scenarios to engage participants and achieve the aim
  • Understand how to resource and co-ordinate delivery
  • Carry out post exercise evaluations and report lessons
  • Leave with an exercise concept that can be delivered within the organization

You will receive 16 CPD points and a Certificate of Attendance from the BCI on successful completion of the course.


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Location Date Duration  
Online (GMT+3), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 05 Feb 2025 2 day(s) Book
Online (GMT+3), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 22 Sep 2025 2 day(s) Book

*Price excludes sales tax


Embedding Business Continuity Training Course

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of designing and implementing effective embedding activities as a key part of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle. It provides a practical approach to the complexities of working with a broad range of stakeholders. A successful BCM programme is not simply a collection of validated documents. Documents are only half the story, the other half is the creation of capable individuals who can utilize plans and resources by putting them into practice to build organizational resilience. Successfully embedding business continuity requires a collaborative approach across the organization.
This course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines.
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Incident Response and Crisis Management Training Course

This course covers all aspects of developing and implementing an incident response structure and crisis management capability.

The course is broken down into modules exploring the concepts and principles of incident and crisis management and what tools and techniques can be applied when anticipating and assessing incidents. It also looks at the key activities, roles and responsibilities required for effective incident and crisis management.

This 2-day course comes complete with course slides and Student Workbook that contains exercises to be completed throughout the course. The course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • Crisis Management Concepts and Framework
  • Anticipating and Assessing
  • Prepare – Response Structure
  • Prepare – Tools and Resources
  • Prepare – Crisis Management Plan
  • Response and Recovery
  • Crisis Communications

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Learn how to build and deliver crisis management capability for your organization using an established best practice framework
  • Have a good appreciation of the relationships between problem, incident, business continuity and crisis management
  • Develop an understanding of the principles, strategies and techniques of incident response and crisis management
  • Acquire the tools and know-how to prepare, implement and maintain a crisis management plan

You will receive 16 CPD points and a Certificate of Attendance from the BCI on successful completion of the course.


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Location Date Duration  
Online (GMT+3), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 13 May 2025 2 day(s) Book
Online (GMT+3), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 10 Nov 2025 2 day(s) Book

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Introduction to Business Continuity Training Course

This course is designed as a first step for newcomers to the subject of business continuity, those wanting to start a career in business continuity, and for those for whom business continuity may be a part of their role or responsibilities who need to have a good understanding of the subject.

This course provides you with the basic knowledge and understanding of the building blocks required for developing or maintaining a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).

This 1-day course comes complete with course slides and Student Workbook. The course is aligned to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) Edition 7.0 and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • Module 1 – Introduction
  • Module 2 – Establishing a BCMS
  • Module 3 – Embracing BC
  • Module 4 – Analysis
  • Module 5 – Solutions Design
  • Module 6 – Enabling Solutions
  • Module 7 – Validation
  • Module 8 – Bringing it all together

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the key elements of Establishing a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
  • Examine the importance of organizational culture and the benefits of Embracing Business Continuity.
  • Describe the three types of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment (RA).
  • Explain the purpose of business continuity Solutions Design.
  • Examine key elements of Enabling Solutions and implement the principles of business continuity plans.
  • Explain Validation by reviewing the exercising, maintenance and review phases.

You will receive 8 CPD points and a Certificate of Attendance on successful completion of the course.


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Location Date Duration  
Online (GMT+3), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 12 May 2025 1 day(s) Book
Online (GMT+3), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 25 Sep 2025 1 day(s) Book

*Price excludes sales tax


Supply Chain Resilience 1-Day Training Course

This course is about understanding the basics of supply chain management and how to add resilience measures to them, and therefore, the business. In recent times supply chains have been under increased global pressure and have become more complex due to issues such as the pandemic, border closures, and climate change affects. So, ensuring you build resilience into them is even more vital, now more than ever, for the success of any business. This 1-day course comes complete with course slides and a Student Workbook that contains discussion-based activities to be completed throughout the course. The course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) and reflects current International Standards in business continuity.

What the course covers:

  • Supply Chain tiers and risks
  • What is outsourcing
  • How and where supply chain management fits and links into the different stages of the BCM Lifecycle

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the different tiers of supply chain management
  • Embed supply chain into your BCM Programme
  • Understand the process of outsourcing
  • Identify potential supply chain issues
  • Validate your supply chain operations

You will receive 8 CPD points for the 1-day Course and a Certificate of Attendance from the BCI on successful completion of the course.


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Meet the instructors
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    Thomas Bennett

    Senior Analyst, Business Continuity

    Global and Middle East BCI Award winner Resilience and Continuity Professional 2022

    Fellow of the Emergency Planning Society

    Prince II 

    HIGHLY EXPERIENCED IN ALL aspects crisis management, emergency planning and business continuity 

  • Abdullah Al Hour

    Resiliency Services Consultant

    Abdullah Al Hour has had 15 years of experience in Business Continuity and Recovery Services in Consultancy, Financial, and Telecom industries. Abdullah has worked with organizations in the Middle East region establishing and maintaining Business Continuity and Management programs and governance structures. As part of these programs, he has implemented the business continuity life cycle; Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment, Business Continuity Strategy, Plans Development, Testing, Awareness, Recovery Sites and BCM Software Tools. Along with Abdullah’s experience in Business Continuity, he has been involved in other relevant areas that includes e-Banking Risk Management, IT Risk Management and Physical Security. He participated extensively in Operational Risk Management activities through risk identification, assessment, and response. Abdullah has published a book titled “Business Continuity Management - Choosing to survive” the book shows how to systematically prepare business, not only for the unthinkable, but also for smaller incidents which, if left unattended, could well lead to major disasters. He also delivered two sessions at the BCI’s BCM World Conference in 2011 and 2012. As he has joined the Business Continuity Institute in 2007 and has progressed to become an Associate Fellow (AFBCI).

  • Sachin Kumar

    Riskmindz Owner

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    Raouf Riahi

    Operational Risk Manager, Business Continuity Consultant

    Raouf is an experienced and knowledgeable business continuity, crisis management consultant having worked with various international organizations including USAID funded projects, CIPRES, as well as a large collection of other organizations from different sectors, such as oil and gas, financial institutions, social protection organisms, defense and security, public administration, IT companies and others. Raouf has an experience establishing and auditing business Continuity plans and Programs with more than 10.000 hours of implementation of BCPs. He is also a certified PECB trainer, approved instructor with the Tunisian national centre for professional development, and a BCI approved instructor with Marjason Consulting DWC-LLC, with a training experience for more than 20 years in different disciplines, including:  Business Continuity, Crisis Management, organizational Resilience and Operational resilience, Security and Emergency Management; Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) - personal safety and security; female safety and security awareness program; fleet management and safe driver program; guard force management program; and bullying and workplace violence. Raouf is also expert in running emergency and crisis management team exercises.

    Raouf is a highly effective communicator, briefing at senior government level, as well as to Ambassadors and COPs/Program Leaders on a range of business continuity, risk management, crisis management and security issues, as well as dealing with the international media. Bringing considerable experience working directly with CEOs and other industry leaders, he has supported both business goals and operational planning. Able to balance tact and diplomacy with frank and forthright assessments, he engenders a collaborative approach to gain buy-in at all levels.

    During his career, he has worked with different partners in the USA, France, Italy, Canada, UAE, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, and other countries. This included several sectors such as government, military, maritime and port authorities, the oil and gas sector, NGOs, international commercial organisations, education, health, social security, insurance, IT, and financial fields.

    A member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), PECB ISO 22301 Senior Lead Implementer and Trainer, PECB ISO 21502 Senior Lead Project Manager and Trainer, winner of the BCI Africa awards 2021 and 2022. He is also the Vice Chair of the BCI North and West Africa Chapter and member of the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) and is a speaker at the national and international levels: this includes the BCI World Horizons international Conference 2021 and 2022; the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN); and for universities and schools. He is the author of more than 30 articles on business continuity and resilience topics.

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    Huda Al-Rasheed

    Snr. Analyst Cyber Security

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    Tim Marjason

    Managing Director

    Certified Business Continuity and Crisis Management Subject Matter Expert - Prior to starting his business (Marjason Consulting DWC LLC) in Dubai, UAE, Tim was a Chief Inspector and the former Head of Corporate Business Continuity Management with the Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard, London. After a long operational career, Tim’s final 10 years were in the fields of Business Continuity Management, Command and Control, Crisis Management, Emergency Preparedness, Programme Management and Business Change. Tim was the Bronze Emergency Preparedness Commander for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tim has an extensive training development and delivery as well as conference speaking record acquired in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. He works with a variety of government organisations and private sector companies across the Middle East and beyond. Tim is an Approved Business Continuity (BCI) Instructor and a PECB Certified Trainer.

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