Stormy Waters Group provides operational advisory support focused on continuity, preparedness, and structured decision-making during disruption.
The firm was founded by Claude Poole following a career supporting complex international security and crisis management operations. That experience informs a practical, measured approach to organizational readiness and operational stability.
Operational Leadership Experience
Experience supporting complex security, continuity, and operational environments across federal and international missions.
Diplomatic Security
Background
Extensive experience supporting protective operations, crisis response activities, and interagency coordination in dynamic environments.
Crisis & Operational
Advisory
Focused on helping organizations strengthen continuity, preparedness, and leadership decision-making during disruption.
Operational Experience
Claude Poole served more than twenty-five years in federal law enforcement and security roles, including seventeen years with the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. During that time, he supported protective operations, crisis response activities, and operational coordination in complex domestic and international environments.
His background includes leadership roles involving contingency planning, operational security, and interagency coordination in environments where uncertainty, rapid decision-making, and continuity challenges were routine.
That experience shapes the Stormy Waters Group approach: practical preparedness, structured decision-making, and operational guidance designed to help organizations remain steady and effective during disruption.
Our Approach
Stormy Waters Group focuses on practical preparedness designed to help organizations strengthen continuity, improve readiness, and support effective decision-making before disruption occurs.
Assessments and advisory support are tailored to each organization’s operational realities, leadership structure, and continuity priorities. The goal is not theoretical planning, but practical guidance that organizations can apply with confidence under real-world conditions.
Working With Stormy Waters Group
Stormy Waters Group works with organizations seeking practical, structured guidance on continuity, preparedness, and operational readiness. Engagements are tailored to each organization’s operational realities, leadership structure, and continuity priorities.
Whether conducting assessments, supporting preparedness initiatives, or advising on continuity planning, the focus remains the same: helping organizations strengthen stability and readiness before disruption places operations under pressure.