Preparing for the Unexpected

Join me Thursday, April 17/25, as I talk with respected resilience and risk management expert, keynote speaker, and executive, Daniela Parker. We discuss Vendor Risk Management and Third-Party Risk Management.    During our talk we touch on:    1. Defining Vendor Risk Management and Third-Party Risk Management.   2. Evaluating vendors and partners.    3. Where and how, to get started.    4. Execut...

Join me Thursday, April 10/25, as I talk with respected resilience, risk management, author, speaker, and ESG expert, Harsha Sastry. We discuss the topic of ESG and Resilience.  During our talk we touch on:  1. Defining ESG (Environment, Society, Governance).    2. Defining resilience (it's more than you think).    3. Discussing the "E" (environment) in ESG.    4. The financial environment.    5....

Join me once again as I speak with trainer, scholar, resilience professional, researcher, and author, Daman Dev Sood. In this episode we talk about his latest book "My Experiments with Third Party Risk Management" - a topic top of mind for many businesses.  During this episode we touch on: 1. Defining 3rd Party Risk Management 2. What is a vendor?  3. Parameters of Risk (related to 3rd parties), ...

Join me Thursday, March 6, 2025 on the VoiceAmerica business channel, as I talk with crisis communications expert, speaker, and co-author of 'Leaders Under Fire: The CEO's Survival Guide to Navigating Corporate Crisis' Jeff Chatterton.  During our talk on Crisis Communications we touch on such subjects as:  1. Telling stories,  2. Controlling the narrative,  3. Follow the steps,  4. Green light /...

Join me for Part 2 of my talk with multi-award winning and globally recognized Business Continuity and Crisis Management expert, Regina Phelps.  Today Regina brings out her crytal ball to talk about what 2025 holds for BCM, Crisis, and Resilience professionals...all of us really. During our talk we touch on: 1. The next pandemic? (H5N1), 2. Common infections diseases surges, 3. Health & Human Serv...

Join me for Part 1 of my talk with multi-award winning and globally recognized Business Continuity and Crisis Management expert, Regina Phelps.  Today Regina brings out her crytal ball to talk about what 2025 holds for BCM, Crisis, and Resilience professionals...all of us really. During our talk we touch on: 1. The current risk landscape (The Top 7 risks from the Global Economic Forum) 2. State-ba...

Join me as I talk with award-winning and globally recognized business continuity and resilience expert, Margaret Millett. We talk about 3 key areas that are creating waves in the resilience industry, and Margaret doesn't hold back on her thoughts.  We touch on:  1. Political instability and geopolitical risks,   2. Talk shortages and skills gap in the resilience profession,   3. Mental health in t...

Join me Thursday, February 13, 2025 on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I talk with top-ranked communications professional, author, and an award-winning journalist, Sean Mallen, as we talk about Crisis Communications.  During our discussion we touch on: 1. Crisis Management vs Crisis Communications,    2. Reputation,   3. Empathy,   4. Transparency,   5. Responsibility,  6. Social Media impac...

Join me, as I talk with author, international speaker, and 9/22 survivor, Michael Hingson. It's an inspirational discussion about such topics as:   1. Surviving 9/11,   2. Staying calm and controlling fear,   3. Misperceptions about disabilities,   4. Operating with prejudice,   5. Guide dogs and Michael's new book "Live Like a Guide Dog",   6. Trust,   7. People and adversity,   8. Resilience,  ...

Join me as I talk with speaker, author, and confidence builder, Anne Bonney as we talk about Burnout, and how it impacts us in our personal and professional lives.  During our talk we touch on such subjects as:  1.    Defining burnout,   2.    The 5 factors of burnout,   3.    Predictability,   4.    Control,  5.    Seeing progress,   6.    Having an outlet,   7.    Social support,   8.    Self-ef...

Join me as I talk with longtime experienced Innovative Resilience & Business Continuity Leader, David Young, as we talk about Presenting Risks for Competitive Advantage, Metrics Driven Risk Assessments, and using Artificial Intelligence to help foster resilience.  During our extensive chat we touch on:  1. The Kinds of risks for competitive advantage,    2. Presenting risks to executives and clien...

Join me as I talk with speaker, author, and confidence builder, Anne Bonney as we talk about Confident Resilience, and how we can build ourselves up to help us in our personal and professional lives.  During our talk we touch on such subjects as:  1. Defining Resilience as Mental Toughness (or Confident Resilience),   2. Physiology,   3. Emption energy and awareness,   4. Our 'outlets',   5. Confi...

Join me as I talk with recognized Business Continuity & Resilience industry thought leader, Shane Mathew. We talk about the nuances of decision-making during a crisis, but also how we prepare our Crisis Team members and decision-makers before a crisis occurs.   1. The importance of good decision-making,   2. How the Chernobyl disaster triggered the conversation of decision-making,   3. Fear and de...

Join me as I talk with the founder and principal of Raymond-Cox Consulting, Fiona Raymond-Cox, as we talk about Cyber table top exercises. We touch on: 1. The evolution of tabletop exercises and how things have changed over the years (and why!), 2. Tabletop exercising with the Crisis Management Team (CMT) and why it's important, 3. Functional exercises and how they take tabletops to the next level...

Join me as I talk with Trauma Informed Conflict Management Consultant, Treena Reilkoff. We have a very insightful discussion on three key areas that are impacting people and workplaces: 1. School violence, 2. Work related suicide (and an actual case from Australia where a business was found at fault for contributing to a suicide), 3. Psychological Health & Safety Environments (which ties everythin...

Join me as I talk with Business Continuity specialist Gayle Anders and Technical Continuity specialist TJ Mead - both of Netflix. As 'departments-of-one' they've been able to transform their organization's thinking on Business Continuity and Technical Continuity and share many lessons on how they did it, and how they're keeping things moving forward. During our chat we touch on: 1. Terminology (a...

Join me as I talk with respected globally recognized operational risk, business continuity, and risk expert, and chair of the BCI's Women in Resilience Interest Group, Ratna Pawan. During our discussion we touch on two topics: Operational Resilience and Women in Resilience. 1. Operational Resilience (OpR) a. Defining operational resilience, b. OpR is BCM done well (neither of us like this comment)...

Join me, Thursday, October 31/24 on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I discuss Cyber Response Issues with Regina Phelps. During our back-and-forth chat we touch on subjects such as: 1. Assumptions, 2. Bringing everyone together (and we do mean everyone!), 3. Identifying the top issues in Cyber, 4. Checklists, 5. Uncomfortable conversations, 6. Determining a leaders, 7. Leadership, Decisivenes...

It's part 2 of my talk with resilience specialist, Jason Hoss, as we continue out discussion on personal resilience and how it helps establish strong organizational and operational resilience within our businesses. We use our own stories of resilience to help understand how the personal side of resilience will help build and influence Organizational and Operational Resilience. You don't want to mi...

To help establish strong organizational and operational information within our businesses, one first must start with personal resilience; the foundation upon which you can build and influence Organizational and Operational Resilience. I speak with resilience specialist and friend, Jason Hoss, as we share our own stories - the good, the bad, and the ugly - about our own journeys of resilience. You...

Join me as I talk with globally recognized Crisis, Conflict, and Emergency Management (CCEM) expert, Kyle King, as we talk about a couple of important subjects. In segment 1 we talk about The Role of Business Continuity in International Security. 1. BCM and economic stability. 2. Geopolitical risks, 3. International security and BCM, 4. Public and Private partnerships, 5. Operational continuity, 6...

Join me as I talk with experienced Business Continuity Management (BCM), Incident Management, and Emergency Response specialist, Jennifer Park, as we discuss why organizations and leadership downplay the importance of BCM along with what it can offer organizations. During our discussion we touch on: 1. Defining BCM and resilience (Jennifer's view), 2. Viewing BCM as a short-term initiative, 3. 'Ch...

Join me as I talk with the Security Director for the Americas at World Travel Protection, Frank Harrison, as we talk about 'Travel Risk Management'. With global 'hot spots' cropping up in what seems to be on a daily basis, understanding the risks is vital for individuals and organizations. During our talk we touch on: 1. Defining Travel Risk Management, 2. 'Duty of care', 3. Fit for Location (this...

Join me as I talk with resilience industry thought leader, Jason Hoss. We talk about learning from the past to empower future resilience. During our discussion we touch on: 1. Legal advice, 2. Don't waste an adverse situation (it's an opportunity!!), 3. No process is perfect, 4. Learning from missteps, 5. Training & exercising (a great learning experience), 6. Grow through adversity, 7. Test plans...

Join me as I talk with resilience industry thought leader Jason Hoss, as we talk about employee engagement. During out discussion we touch upon: 1. The culture of an organization, 2. BIAs and BCPs, 3. People focus and involvement, 4. Process vs people resilience, 5. Testing and exercising, 6. 'Chaos Monkey', 7. Building confidence...and more! Jason and I share our thoughts and ideas tor building,...