Preparing for the Unexpected

In today's business world, organizations can be very complex in nature; from system complexities technical in nature and those that are process and procedural in nature. In either case, these systems can create allot of chaos and confusion when they fail. We talk with 'Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It' author, Chris Clearfield (co-authored with Andras Tilscik). Chris with...

A culture of health (inclusive of mental health), within the workplace can contribute to the overall effort of an organization to improve and sustain the health and productivity of its workforce. We talk with mental health expert Dr. Robert Quigley, who will help us understand why mental health concerns are vital to the ongoing success of organizations. We'll identify some of the triggers that can...

Workplace Violence is something that many organizations must deal with. Even if the risk is not great, organizations must still account and prepare for the risk, which if not dealt with, can cause major trauma for the impacted organization. We talk with Dr. Marc Siegel, author of 'Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations' about how we can identify the risk of workplace violence and what w...

No Business Continuity Management (BCM) professional can know everything about business operations, as there's just so much to know. However, a BCM professional can learn allot about an organizations operations by speaking with a Business Analyst (BA), whether they be Business or Technical in focus. We speak with experienced BA expert Bill Baxter who will speak to us about the roll of the BA and w...

Water pollution and Service Delivery issues have long plagued South Africa for multiple reasons. We'll talk to Dr. Roman Tandlich of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa who will outline his studies in Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Health Implications; a paper presented at the TIEMS Conference in Manila, Philippines (Nov 2018). We'll learn some of the challenges encountered by South A...

Terrorism isn't just about the guns, firefights and explosions we see on the news channels. An often overlooked terrorism threat is Agricultural Terrorism (agro-terrorism). We'll speak with Emergency Management subject matter expert and registered nurse, Dee Grimm who will speak to us about the threat of Agro-Terrorism. We'll learn about the various kinds of agents that can be used in agro-terrori...

Along with Organizational Resiliency, Community Resiliency is a hot topic in today's Business Continuity / Disaster Planning world. For this episode we talk to Professor Geoff A. Wilson from the University Of Plymouth, UK. Prof. Wilson is also the author of 'Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions', which will be our focus for this show. Prof Wilson will talk to us to better understand...

Terrorism comes in many forms; it's not just the guns and firefights we see on the news channels. One form is Biological Terrorism and we'll speak with Emergency Management subject matter expert and registered nurse, Dee Grimm who will speak to us about what BIO-Terrorism is. We'll learn about the various kinds of biological agents and their effects upon us and the treatments for those that have b...

The Continuity & Resilience Today (CRT) conference was held May 29-30, 2019 in Toronto. It was the second CRT conference and was full of skilled experts and knowledgeable speakers. This show provides a quick overview and summary of some of the sessions held over the 2 days and some of the key points that were discussed and presented to attendees.

Technology is present in every aspect of our daily and business lives; this includes being an important factor in Emergency Management. We speak with the author Dr. John C Pine about his book Technology and Emergency Management. We'll discuss how technology is changing Emergency Management and how it can be leveraged to better aid our Emergency Planning, Response, Recovery and Mitigation capabilit...

Earthquakes are powerful natural forces that have the ability to cause allot of devastation and early prediction is something still to be defined. Yet, it's happening. We speak with Dr. Dimitar Ouzounov, an expert in pre-earthquake phenomena, Earth's lithosphere-atmosphere coupling, and short term earthquake forecasting using space technologies. Dr. Ouzounov talks to us about a current AMADEUS ini...

Business Continuity Management (BCM) can be a major challenge for small organizations, sometimes even more so than for larger organizations. We speak with long-time BCM expert Alex Jankovic, who helps us identify what some of these key challenges are and why they are concerns for small organizations; from the program initation phase to implementation to the ongoing maintenance phase. Alex also tal...

Sometimes we manufacture our own negative situations because we don't pay attention to risk. We speak with Professor, Global Risk Expert and author, Robert Muir-Wood about his book 'The Cure for Catastrophe - How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters'. We'll discuss how we create some of our own consequences with regards to natural disasters and define a true natural disaster. We'll hear abo...

Organizational Resilience is a hot topic in the Business Continuity industry today. For this episode we talk with renowned global experts and authors of 'Organizational Resilience: Managing the Risks of Disruptive Events' Dr. Marc Siegel and Dr. James Leflar. We discuss what Organizational Resiliency is and how it benefits an organization, using a risk management based approach. We'll talk about R...

To ensure our messages on disaster are received and understood by the appropriate audiences, we need to think about New Approaches to Disaster Education. We speak with education expert, researcher and environmental and disaster hazard expert, Neil Dufty. Neil will talk to us about the best ways to develop and manage disaster communication awareness and how to identify our various audiences - or le...

Navigating through a crisis successfully is something all organizations must be able to do, unfortunately that isn't always the case. This is because they haven't developed a strong Crisis Management program. We speak with internationally recognized expert Regina Phelps, to discuss her latest book 'Crisis Management: How to Develop a Powerful Program'. We'll talk about how to build a great teams a...

The Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP) is Not-For-Profit organization with the vision of being the world's premier association of resiliency professionals. Our guest is the National Board Chairperson for the ACP, Mr. Scott Ream. Scott will provide us an overview of the organization, its vision for the future and its curent mission, including the benefits of membership, its partnerships...

This is hour 5 (final hour) of the live broadcast from September 24/18.

For Business Continuity / Disaster Planning programs to be truly effective and meet the needs of organizations, they need to work with other organization programs. This week we will focus on Information Security and Privacy with recognized InfoSec expert, Jason Maynard. We will learn the various ways in which organizations can be compromised through various threats and attacks from physical/site t...

For any organization, validating their Business Continuity, Crisis Management, IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Emergency Response Plans - among others - it paramount. The problem often encountered due to resource availability, time and costs, is that many organizations rely on the Tabletop exercise to validate their protocols. Thought valuable, an organization must see beyond the Tabletop. We speak...

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One of the most common problems organizations have today, is the coordination and management of their supply chains. All too often, organizations neglect to pay close attention to the dependencies that exist with their upstream and downstream partners, which can create many challenges should they experience a disruption. We speak with Supply Chain Management expert and the President of the Disaste...

This is hour 4 from the live broadcast event on September 24/18.

Social Media can help us in many ways but it can also cause us harm if we don't pay close attention to what information is being presented by the various social media platforms. This week, we talk with Lt. Glen Mills who is a specialist in monitoring social media for situational awareness and is a Lieutenant with the Burlington, Massachusetts police department. Drawing upon extensive experience an...

This is hour 3 from the Live broadcast on September 24/18.