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Navigating Regional Conflicts: A Geopolitical Tabletop Exercise for Employee Safety and Business Resilience
Session Objective: The main objective of this webinar is to share our tabletop exercise design and delivery expertise as it relates to a geopolitical crisis. Abstract: Participants will engage in a series of scenarios that require strategic decision-making and crisis management skills to address employee life safety concerns, including the evacuation of national and expatriate…
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The Power of Public-Private Partnerships
Learn from the expert that built sustainable public-private partnerships at FEMA, Disney, and Walmart. Hear tips on how to create a community shared value proposition. Leave with tools and templates to maintain your partnerships. Speaker: Andrea Davis Andrea Davis is a recognized expert in the field of emergency management who has dedicated her career to…
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Build a Clean Container: Coping with Complexity for Crisis Teams
I love it when a plan comes together. It just never seems to happen the way I expect. Like many, I have labored for much of my career under the belief that good planning leads to good outcomes in crisis management. Therefore, better planning must lead to the best outcomes. Right? Recent experience may say…
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Insider Threats and How to Hunt for Malicious Insiders
Real-world insider threats causing the most harm go well beyond news headlines or Hollywood stories. For example, what about the system administrator caught selling corporate data to acquisition targets? Or the employee caught trying to steal a manufacturing process formula and client lists, and who sent confidential information to other employees? How were they caught,…
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Building a Strong Brand Reputation and Keeping it During a Crisis
When an unfortunate event threatens your organization’s reputation, how you communicate with your key stakeholders matters. In the modern day of citizen journalism and in the 24-hour news cycle, you can count on your story gaining traction. It is in your best interest to help shape the narrative by being open and transparent. Before a…
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Managing the Brain Drain: Integrating Effective Cognitive Techniques Into Your Crisis Event Management
In this session, Shane Mathew shares some of the lessons he’s learned about the psychological impacts that crisis events have on decision-makers from his years of building effective crisis management & business continuity programs in various industries. While Crisis Event Management can rely heavily on documentation and training, the outcomes of events will heavily depend…
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Boston Marathon Bombing Lessons for Incident Response and Business Continuity
John will discuss preparation for incident response, crisis response during incident, and post incident response through the lens of his experience and an FBI analyst and investigator during the Boston Marathon Bombing. He will discuss steps a company can take to prepare for incidents, respond from them, and adapt for the future. He will then…
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Bringing It All Together: Crisis, Continuity, and Project Management
Many organizations have their crisis communication, business continuity/disaster recovery/resilience, and project management organizations siloed, and scenarios only sometimes bring these departments together to run through an exercise. Business Continuity may conduct a training activity and just say that the crisis communication plan was activated, but didn’t run through the steps to see if there are…
