Deborah Hileman – #MeToo and Other Smoldering Crises: How Bad Behavior Impacts Companies

Weinstein. Lauer. Ailes. Spacey. The groundswell of people who are speaking up about being sexually harassed or assaulted in the workplace continues to grow, challenging organizations and their leaders with how to best manage not only the allegations themselves, but the reputational and financial fallout that inevitably follows. Companies where a top executive is accused…

Emily Kent – Emerge Stronger: Why Your Company’s Disaster Recovery Plan Needs a Strategy

The latter half of 2017 provided an unprecedented string of disasters across the US, Caribbean, and Mexico. Many companies found themselves scrambling to resolve highly complex issues in an effort to appropriately respond to the devastating impacts to not just their business but also their people and communities. PwC’s Marissa Michel will discuss how these…

Marissa Randazzo – Preventing Mass Shootings: Best Practices in Threat Assessment

In the wake of targeted attacks like the mass shootings in Las Vegas, at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the assassination attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, the Newtown elementary school shooting, and the Virginia Tech campus shooting, people often look to law enforcement professionals for what can…

Vince Davis – Defeating The Clown – Community Resilience In The New Normal

According to FEMA more than sixty-percent of Americans have done nothing to prepare for disasters. Creating resilient communities requires getting residents to take action, and understand why they must prepare. This calls for honest dialogue with residents about the real consequences of doing nothing before a disaster. Giving stakeholders fresh perspectives about challenges and opportunities…