Because life and work don’t stop when disruption hits.

Whether it’s a personal crisis or a business-critical event, Compassionate Response Consulting helps you prepare for what’s next so you can lead, plan, and protect what matters most.

Three paths. One mission: Help you be ready when it matters most.

Because crises don’t just happen in life, they happen at work, too. Choose the path that fits where you need to build resilience.

Personal Readiness

(For individuals, couples, and families)

Our fillable CRC Playbooks guide you through what to do before the unexpected hits, whether it’s a health crisis, loss, or other life disruption. It's the peace of mind "insurance policy" nobody else can give you.

Simple, practical, compassionate preparedness for the people, pets, and plans that matter most.

Small Business Continuity

(For solopreneurs and small teams who wear every hat)

Be Ready to Keep Your Business Running.
When you are the business, a sudden illness, loss, or emergency can stop everything cold.
Our Small Business Continuity Playbook helps you protect your operations, clients, and income when life throws you an unexpected challenge.

Practical, fill-in-the-blank guidance that helps you build backups, delegate smartly, and safeguard your hard-won momentum.

Organizational Readiness

(For CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, and their trusted advisors)

Be Ready at Work.
Our Business Continuity Readiness programs help leaders and their managers navigate the “4 D’s” that derail performance: Death. Diagnosis. Disaster. Disruption.

Build resilience before the storm so your people, clients, and company keep moving forward.

Why CRC Playbooks aren’t like most ‘Emergency Binders'

A clearer, easier way to prepare for life’s (inevitable) everyday 'what-ifs'

Most “emergency binders” online are just pretty templates. Ours are different by design.

Guided, structured, and built for real individuals, couples, families and households; not just fill-in-the-blank forms.
👉 Fillable PDFs = no Canva, no apps, no logins, no tech setup.
👉 Designed to be used in moments of stress, not just displayed on Pinterest.

Because when something unexpected happens, you don’t need customization — you need clarity.

Made for real life, not just cute checklists

Our playbooks focus on the information people actually need during an emergency:

  • Kids’ routines, health details, school info

  • Pet care, medications, feeding schedules

  • Household operations and bills

  • Medical needs, contacts, and essentials

  • Access information, logins, and key instructions

  • Partner communication and continuity

  • Optional Playbooks for aging parents, or modules for dependents

We leave out the noise so you can focus on what matters most.

Simple, practical, ready to use

You don’t have to customize layouts or format anything.

Just download, type, or print.

No overwhelm. No guesswork. No “figure it out yourself.”

Our playbooks are intentionally structured to walk you page-by-page through everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

Built to reduce stress, not add to it

Most people want to be prepared… but don’t know where to start.

We remove the mental load by giving you:

  • A clear path

  • A guided structure

  • Fillable pages for every critical area

  • A system your partner or family can actually use

Because preparation shouldn’t feel like another project — it should feel like relief.

Meet the Founders who help people and organizations handle the hard stuff.

Two seasoned professionals: one guiding the human side of change, the other diagnosing the people side of business.

Meet

Maureen Desmond

Change & Loss Coach and Consultant

A coach and consultant specializing in grief, change, and loss, Maureen helps leaders and teams process disruption without losing focus or stability. She’s spent her career guiding people through the transitions that test identity, purpose, and leadership presence.
Her focus: helping humans lead with heart when life gets messy.

meet

Michelle Arentz

Your Workforce MD

Michelle diagnoses and treats leadership, team, hiring and culture challenges before they become business emergencies. She brings decades of experience guiding organizations through tough situations, from succession crises and restructuring to burnout and breakdown.
Her focus: helping leaders respond with clarity and compassion when the pressure hits.

Together, we created Compassionate Response Consulting to help humans and organizations navigate the moments that test them most... with empathy, structure, and strategic readiness.

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