From Planning to Practice: A Three-Part Crisis Preparedness Webinar Series

ByICMC Admin
From Planning to Practice: a three-part crisis preparedness webinar series with ICMC, PreparedEx and RockDove

Three Thursdays: October 15, 22, and 29, 2026
12:00 to 1:00 PM Eastern

Crisis readiness requires more than a plan on the shelf. This three-part series takes you from planning fundamentals to a live facilitated crisis exercise.

One registration covers all three sessions. Sign up once below and you are booked for the entire series.

Join ICMC, PreparedEx, and RockDove for a practical three-part webinar series designed to help organizations strengthen crisis readiness from plan development through live exercise participation. Across three weekly sessions, you will learn the fundamentals of crisis preparedness, explore how to design effective exercises and leverage response technology, and then take part in a live facilitated crisis exercise that brings the concepts to life.

Each session builds on the last: first you build the foundation, then you learn how to test it, and finally you step into the exercise yourself. Each session runs approximately 60 minutes, with 45 minutes of content, demonstration, or exercise activity followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.

The Three-Part Journey

Session 1 (October 15): Crisis Preparedness Fundamentals, Building Plans That Work

Many organizations have crisis plans, but fewer have plans that are actionable, exercised, and capable of guiding leadership through a real-world event. This session provides a practical framework for building crisis preparedness programs that go beyond compliance and enable effective decision-making under pressure.

In this session, you will learn:

  • The core components of an effective crisis management program
  • How to develop practical, actionable crisis management plans
  • How to establish crisis governance structures and response teams
  • How to identify preparedness gaps before a crisis occurs
  • How to create an exercise program that strengthens organizational resilience

Session 2 (October 22): Designing Effective Exercises and Leveraging Technology for Response

Exercises are one of the most effective ways to validate plans, prepare teams, and identify improvement opportunities. This session explores how to design successful exercises and leverage platforms such as RockDove to manage incidents, coordinate teams, and capture decision-making during an event.

In this session, you will learn:

  • How to design impactful tabletop exercises aligned to organizational risk
  • How to build realistic scenarios and injects that drive meaningful decisions
  • How technology supports crisis coordination, communications, and documentation
  • A live RockDove demonstration: incident activation, notifications, tasking, decision logging, and executive dashboards
  • How to measure performance and translate observations into improvement actions

Session 3 (October 29): The Crisis Exercise, From Theory to Practice

The final session turns participants from observers into decision-makers. You will take part in a facilitated tabletop exercise built around a realistic crisis scenario, and see how plans, processes, teams, and technology work together during an event.

In this session, you will:

  • Experience the pressures of crisis decision-making in a facilitated exercise environment
  • Practice response coordination and information-sharing techniques
  • Observe crisis management best practices in action
  • See how technology supports response workflows, documentation, and situational awareness
  • Identify lessons you can apply within your own organization

Who Should Attend

This series is designed for crisis management leaders, resilience professionals, business continuity teams, security leaders, emergency management practitioners, communications leaders, operational risk teams, and executives involved in incident response.

Register Now for this FREE Webinar Series:

Please note: registration is for the entire three-part series. Complete the form below once and you are registered for all three sessions.

Live sessions are free and open to everyone. Session recordings are available to ICMC Members only. If you cannot join us live, or you would like to revisit the material afterwards, become an ICMC Member to access recordings of all three sessions in the member video library.

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