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"Risk Management is a defined leadership philosophy that anchors everyday decision making to enterprise values and objectives."


Vanessa Richardson, Owner

About Us

Vanessa Richardson, Owner

Vanessa  Richardson is a certified Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP). Her career began as a Logistics Officer for the US Army. There Ms. Richardson led maintenance, logistics, risk management, and emergency planning operations for major capital ground and aviation units in Oklahoma, Colorado, South Korea, and Iraq. Just shy of six years of service, Ms. Richardson received an Honorable Discharge. 

After the Army, Ms. Richardson was hired to help Red Cashew, a luxurious destination spa design firm. As Director of Operations and Project Manager, she led five projects while organizing the start-up and relocation of the company from Colorado to California. 

In 2008 Ms. Richardson joined MWH, INC where she led risk management activities and led the development of risk management government and framework designs for clients in the Utilities sector. Among those was a Program consisting of four major capital hydropower plant rehabilitation projects with construction costs totaling $3B for the British Columbia Hydropower Authority, BC Hydro. Ms. Richardson developed and led implementation of the pilot of the Project Delivery Risk Management framework. 

In 2014, Vanessa began Cygnal Consulting, LLC in order to offer scalable, comprehensive risk management programs to businesses large and small. She has pioneered Values Driven Decision Making. Ms. Richardson insists Cygnal's solutions useful. Every solution is informed by those who will be called upon to implement them. That separates Cygnal from the rest. Your teams appreciate our solutions.

Vanessa was selected to participate as a risk authority in the 2013 PMI-Risk  Management Professional Role Delineation Study and Examination Update

Ms. Richardson received her BS in Environmental Geography and Systems  Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

"Risk Management is the active process of informing decisions for everything before and after insurance."


Vanessa Richardson, Owner

Cygnal Consulting, LLC

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