Tiarnach Mooney
Founder of B.H.A. Advisors, with 20+ years leading work in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, including the development of the BEAR cascade-risk platform.
Foresight · strategy · resilience
Red Thread helps institutions move through uncertainty without losing the people, mechanisms and decisions that make resilience real.
The people behind the line
Each profile links to the person, their independent work and their wider professional presence. Together, the three lanes connect system intelligence, foresight and governance delivery.
Founder of B.H.A. Advisors, with 20+ years leading work in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, including the development of the BEAR cascade-risk platform.
Independent strategic advisor with 30+ years across Whitehall and national-resilience contexts, focused on foresight-led operating concepts and decision alignment.
Partner at BRAVE Within LLP and former Big 4 Partner, with 25+ years supporting boards and risk committees across governance, ERM, assurance, and transformation in complex risk environments. Senior External Advisor to Resilience First.
Connection as method
Red Thread Advisors joins foresight, governance, analytical modelling and delivery design so that a leadership group can make sense of a changing environment and act with coherence.
System, team & decision map
The work is deliberately connective: people, evidence and mechanisms are treated as one system of action.
What makes it different
Our role is to clarify the operational question under the strategic one, helping partners move from concern to a well-designed response.
Bring field, operational and governance perspectives into the same picture early.
Trace how a pressure in one part of a system alters the ability of others to function.
Finish with a named decision, an accountable owner and a condition that tells the team when to act.
The tangible so what
Each engagement creates a concrete shift in how an institution sees its risks, coordinates its people and takes action when the environment changes.
Translate emerging signals into a small set of choices that matter now, later and only under defined conditions.
Deliverable: a live decision horizon and trigger set.Design roles, escalation routes and assurance mechanisms that preserve pace without losing judgement.
Deliverable: an operating model that holds under pressure.Connect social, institutional, security and commercial factors so partners can coordinate around the real point of leverage.
Deliverable: a jointly owned resilience pathway.Whole of Society Programme
Specialist voices extending the advisory team across civil-military cooperation, political violence, trust and safety, and partnership delivery.
Civil-military cooperation practitioner focused on NATO, protection of civilians, societal resilience and executable coordination.
View LinkedIn ↗Co-founder and Chief Partnership Officer at Pax Strategies, with experience spanning special operations, civilian-military relations and human-centred partnership building.
View LinkedIn ↗Professor and terrorism researcher specialising in radicalisation, terrorist networks, disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration.
View LinkedIn ↗Trust and Safety professional and founder of Sparx Intelligence, working across online harms, OSINT, compliance, investigations and emerging technology.
View LinkedIn ↗Featured output
A practical example of how Red Thread connects resilience, governance and delivery into a brief that can be used in consequential rooms.
The submission reframes resilience as persistent delivery and identifies four interconnected barriers: protective mis-framing, structural siloing, fragmented vocabulary and short-term financing misalignment.
Output: a system-level response with common standards, cross-register governance and multi-year investment logic.The work connects evidence, people and operating choices so leaders can see where a system is under pressure and which intervention can still change the trajectory.
Output: a shared decision frame with an accountable next move.For collaboration and advisory work, contact the team directly.
Tiarnach · Si · EmmaThe Red Thread offer
Red Thread Advisors helps teams build that connective tissue when the work, the stakes and the people involved are all in motion.