Mrs Melissa Kenney

Business Continuity Advisor, Abri Group

​​Melissa Kenney is a resilience practitioner with extensive experience across the social housing, local government, and finance sectors. She blends technical business continuity expertise with a people-first mindset, ensuring that continuity plans, exercises, and resilience strategies are practical, engaging, and genuinely effective in real-world situations. 

​Melissa is recognised for her creative, narrative-led exercising style, using realistic, story-driven scenarios to help teams build confidence, enhance decision-making, and better understand how disruption unfolds. Her ability to translate complex risks into accessible, relatable learning experiences has made her a trusted partner for operational teams and senior leaders alike. ​

Her cross-sector background gives her a strong understanding of operational pressures, governance expectations, and the challenges faced by organisations delivering essential public and customer-facing services. She uses this insight to support teams in strengthening resilience, improving assurance, and embedding a proactive culture of preparedness. ​

Melissa is passionate about advancing resilience as a whole-of-society effort - recognising that effective preparedness relies on collaboration, shared learning, and supporting the communities and services that people rely on every day. She is committed to raising professional standards and driving continuous improvement across the resilience community.​