The Consilient: Global

At The Consilient: Global, we work at the edge of conflict—where lives, access, and outcomes depend on calm thinking and strategic clarity. We combine deep situational insight from our global network of regional experts, former negotiators, and field practitioners with tailored AI tools to deliver precise, adaptive assessments in real time. Whether advising on hostage recovery, political risk, or frontline access, our work is quiet, steady, and grounded in hard-won experience. We don’t chase attention. We focus it—on what matters, where it matters most.

"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect one."

- Carl von Clausewitz

Our Services

We support governments, organizations, and families facing the hardest questions—those that arise in conflict, crisis, or uncertainty.
Our work is grounded, discreet, and designed to bring clarity to complexity.

  • We provide clear, grounded analysis on conflict dynamics, security threats, and political risk. Our assessments are discreet, rigorously informed, and tailored to the realities our clients face.
    Whether navigating fragile environments or anticipating destabilizing shifts, we help clients see clearly, act decisively, and protect what matters.
    Our global network includes regional experts, former negotiators, and field practitioners with deep, situational insight—not just theory.

  • We advise families, organizations, and governments confronting the unimaginable: the detention or disappearance of a loved one, colleague, or citizen.
    We help structure a steady, informed response—one that protects life, preserves dignity, and aligns efforts across security, diplomatic, and legal dimensions.
    Our role is quiet, strategic, and unwavering. We operate behind the scenes to coordinate intelligence, assess risk, and help our clients hold the line under pressure.

  • We support global health actors seeking access to populations in areas controlled by non-state groups.
    Our work includes threat assessment, political mapping, and the negotiation strategies required to operate safely and credibly in complex terrain.
    Drawing from frontline experience, we help clients understand not just the geography—but the power structures, red lines, and opportunities that shape access.

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The Approach

Discreet by Design

We operate quietly, behind the scenes. Our work often unfolds in sensitive contexts where trust, experience, and discretion matter more than visibility.

Insight, Not Abstraction

We draw on frontline experience, regional knowledge, and tailored AI tools— not theory. Our assessments are shaped by lived complexity, not academic models.

Clarity Under Pressure

In moments of uncertainty or threat, we help our clients think clearly, act deliberately, and avoid missteps that can carry lasting consequences.

Meet the Founder & Principal

Tom Gregg is a conflict resolution specialist with over two decades of frontline experience. He has served as a mediator, hostage and access negotiator, and led classified negotiations and strategic facilitation on behalf of the U.S. Government, the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, and the Government of Norway. He is often engaged in moments of crisis to work discreetly with armed groups and political actors.

  • Tom currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Humanitarian Negotiations Unit; on the panel at Phillips ADR, the leading mediation and arbitration group in the U.S.; as a Counsellor to Dragoman Global, a political risk firm; and as a member of the President’s Leadership Council at Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO.

  • At The Consilient, Tom brings operational clarity and principled calm to high-trust environments where discretion is non-negotiable and stakes are deeply personal.

  • He lives in Laguna Beach with his wife and five children. Lifelong surfer and fly-fisher. Occasional poet.

You’re in Good Company

The Consilient is guided by an extraordinary Global Advisory Board

Mr. Martin Griffiths

Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Founder and Executive Director of Mediation Group International

Mr. Nick Warner

Former Director General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Office of National Intelligence.

Mr. Sam McKay

Founder and Partner of Point King Capital

Ms. Jahan Shahryar

Founder & Attorney

Mr. Shamil Idriss

CEO at Search for Common Ground

Experience You Can Trust

Prior to founding The Consilient, our work supported and advised global institutions on conflict, negotiation, and access—often in the most complex conflict environments in the world.

Let’s begin with a quiet conversation.

We respond personally to serious inquiries. All communication is strictly confidential.