Ginkgo Resilience is transforming governance, risk, and cybersecurity by developing systems that, like the ginkgo biloba tree, which represents longevity and resilience, become stronger under pressure. Founded by Maman Ibrahim, Ginkgo Resilience helps businesses recognise and reduce cyber and digital risks while also transforming these challenges into opportunities for development and adaptability. By combining governance, risk, and cybersecurity into a single, dynamic framework called Ginkgo Resilience, businesses can create a security-first culture and ensure long-term sustainability without sacrificing agility.

Business Now caught up with Maman Ibrahim to discuss the core philosophy behind Ginkgo Resilience, how the company is helping organisations navigate today’s complex threat landscape, and the unique methods they use to transform cyber risk into measurable, long-term results.

Business Now: Ginkgo Resilience draws inspiration from the ginkgo biloba tree, symbolising resilience and longevity. How does this philosophy influence the way your company approaches governance, risk, and cybersecurity?

Maman Ibrahim: We built Ginkgo Resilience on the back of a tree that has outlived empires, pandemics, and even Hiroshima’s blast. The ginkgo isn’t just resilient, it’s unapologetically infinite. That spirit shapes how we tackle governance, risk, and cybersecurity: not as one-off projects, but as living systems designed to bend without breaking. Our frameworks breathe with the organisation, growing stronger under stress, not crumbling when the wind changes.

At Ginkgo Resilience, we help leaders identify key cyber risks, develop high-impact mitigation strategies, and transform challenges into resilience and growth.

From strategic risk assessments to hands-on assurance, we take a laser-focused, high-impact solutions facilitation-first approach that cuts through complexity, aligns leadership, and turns cyber and risk strategies into tangible, measurable impact while protecting what matters most: people, data, and reputation.

Our 5D approach (Discover, Diagnose, Design, Deliver, and Drive) turns risk into results—sharper decisions, tighter controls, safer delivery, resilient operations, and compliance you can prove.

We provide Big Five expertise with boutique firm agility and care.

Many consulting firms rely heavily on reports, but you emphasise a facilitation-first approach. What makes this method more effective for creating real organisational transformation?

Reports gather dust. Facilitation sparks change. We prefer the latter because culture doesn’t shift through PDFs; it shifts through conversations, alignment, and shared ownership. A facilitation-first approach forces leaders to confront blind spots, empowers teams to co-create solutions, and keeps the energy in the room alive long after the workshop ends. Think less “consultant lecture,” more “leadership gym.”

Our facilitation process ensures clear objectives, open discussions, actionable insights, and accountability.

Our facilitation process involves preparation to set objectives and understand needs, engagement to foster open discussions, synthesis to extract insights and solve problems, and action planning to ensure accountability—guiding participants toward meaningful outcomes with clarity and purpose.

Your services span GRC, audit, cyber resilience, and leadership development. How do you ensure these areas integrate seamlessly to deliver holistic value to your clients?

Too often, GRC lives in one silo, audit in another, cyber resilience in a bunker, and leadership development somewhere in HR’s basement. We stitch them together into one narrative. Controls align with strategy, strategy aligns with culture, and culture anchors resilience.

The result? Clients don’t just get compliance tick boxes; they get systems where every moving part knows the game it’s playing and why it matters.

In today’s rapidly changing regulatory and threat landscape, what do you see as the biggest challenges organisations face in achieving true resilience, and how does Ginkgo Resilience help overcome them?

Today’s organisations aren’t fighting just hackers; they’re fighting entropy—regulations that shift like sand, threat actors that don’t sleep, and boards that want instant answers. The greatest challenge is coherence: holding the line when change outpaces governance.

Ginkgo Resilience helps leaders cut through the noise with adaptable frameworks, war-gaming exercises, and resilience roadmaps. We don’t promise a fortress. We promise agility without fragility.

You emphasise building a “security-first culture” rather than just ticking compliance boxes. What steps do you take to foster this cultural shift within organisations?

Anyone can chase compliance. Few can inspire culture. We drive that shift by making security visceral, not abstract stories that hit home, simulations that feel real, and leadership that models the behaviour daily.

We embed security into rituals, decision-making, and even incentive structures. When security becomes muscle memory, not a memo, the culture changes, and resilience becomes everyone’s business, not just the CISO’s.

At Ginkgo Resilience, we believe resilience isn’t paperwork, it’s a living system that grows stronger under stress. We cut through silos, replace dusty reports with facilitation, and embed security into culture until it becomes muscle memory. In a world of shifting rules and relentless threats, we don’t promise a fortress; we deliver agility without fragility.

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