RESILIENCEPOD®

All I want for Christmas is RESILIENCE? 🧐  Is this what you want?✅  Does the holiday season bring you a sense of joy (like bread 🍞 and croissants 🥐do for me) ✅  Does it bring a sense of dread? 😒 Are you waiting for the holidays to re-charge? 🔋  But it's not really working? ❌  Want some tips?  ✅   Want to train your brain 🧠to be positive and adopt a 💪 p...

Understanding organizational culture to create a resilience program is probably one of the most under rated topics and focus of our industry and day jobs. Who is getting this done? And done correctly? Did you consider it?   I am joined  with my next guest Helen Lipscombe, Global Business Continuity lead at Starbucks, UK  who brings with her 20 years' experience in business resilienc...

Are you considering your personal resilience during a disruption/high pressure event?  Do you find it hard to put yourself first when you know you should?  Should you even care about this?   Do you want to know how you can manage your personal resilience during a disruption to thrive and revive? Yes?  Join me this is episode with Jolie Wills, a leading psychosoci...

Do you want to know how to raise the bar in resilience?   Join me with my next guest who brings with him 22+ years of experience in Industry across multiple strategic roles in IT, Disaster Recovery, Continuity & Resilience across Engineering, FMCG Manufacturing, ITES & Publishing, Financial Services and IT & IT Services industries. Harsha Sastry, AVP, Functional Head of Global Bus...

📢This special episode is sponsored by  Fusion Risk Management.  + exclusively for the #resiliencepod family - a FREEBIE. Scroll down/listen for to find out how to claim it. 👇🏾 Is your work life consumed with these new Operational Resilience Regulations?  Working in Financial Services and need something to help you keep track of where you are with compliance? Are you a global...

Adaptive Business Continuity - Evolution or devolution? Join me with my next guest who has controversially ruffled quite a few feathers in this space by bringing this concept into the business continuity industry and disrupted potentially the way we do things. This episode covers:  What is adaptive Business Continuity?   What is the Adaptive approach? Why this approach?  How can pra...

Cyber Trauma and Your Resilience- Have you ever considered it? Join me dig deeper into this with Catherin Knibbs, a Psychotherapist,  Clinical and Doctoral Researcher, Functional Coach, Clinical Supervisor specializing in child/adult trauma from either the real world (eg. MEN arena/Child abuse/accidents/emotional abuse) and Cyber -(any issue that involves technology i.e. computers/social medi...

In a world that is digital, are you leveraging technology to drive resilience? 00:00- Introductions 02:22- What is digital resilience?  04:36- Does digital resilience enable technology-focused organizations?  06:42- Are there tools in the market that can help organizations achieve an all-in-one resilience outlook?   11:22 Technology and software are built for Resilience professional...

Have you ever thought about how to make operational resilience language accessible? Join me with my next guest, Balvinder Bains on RESILIENCEPOD.  🔥In this episode we cover 00:00 Introduction 00:02 How and Why do we need to think about making the language accessible 05:15 The reaction of using resilience lingo in diverse/geographic locations. 06:44 An example of how has Bal changed the langu...

Is Vulnerability linked to Resilience?  Join me with Rod Cartwright, a  resilience professional with over 25 years experience in issues management, crisis communication; leadership communication & executive preparedness.    🔥In this episode we cover: (But first, stay tuned to find out why Rod has a Christmas tree up in the summer)   00:54- Introduction  02:2...

Are you a Business Continuity /Resilience professional that is feeling tired, burnt out, and just overwhelmed by dealing with not only this pandemic but other incidents and crisis in your organization? In the past 24 months, have you taken an actual break? Feeling burnt-out, forgotten, and not sure what to do? I got you! Today we are going to dig a bit deeper into burnout for our resilience p...

Are you ready for this?🔥   I AM Super excited to introduce you to my next guest, Junita van de Colff, Director at Protean Business, South Africa who is a risk and resilience professional, with experiences in an array of sectors, entrepreneur, fellow podcast host (RSKreveiw Podcast), speaker (TEDx), strategist, and someone who takes immense pride in empowering individuals and organizatio...

Well, are you? 👻👀   Today I am with my next guest, James Green, Multi-Award Winning Director at Origami Risk, the USA who brings with him more than a decade of experience in operational, financial, and strategic risk management. He was also the first person to ever win BCI America’s Continuity and Resilience Consultant of the Year Award, twice!!💥  AND, is a bit of a daredevil.😈...

Want to know how to #succeed in the #resilience industry? 👀 🔔Of course, YOU do!  👇🏾 Join me, Rina Singh, MBCI with my next guest on the #resiliencepod who brings with him over 4 decades of experience in our industry, has overseen 4 #pandemics (yes that is right), won several lifetime achievement awards, and whose careers success has been centered around making a difference to those in need bot...

When it comes to writing Business Continuity Plans (BCP) many of us falter.   Do you pick it up from the shelf?  Does it tell you anything?  is it 100 pages, scenario-specific, or generic?   Today we are going to have a  fun debate on generic pans v's playbooks with two very distinguished Industry guests:   Multi Award-winning, Director, Author, Celebrity of our industry - Charlie Maclane Bristol...

What does it take to be resilient in our new normal world? Well, in all efforts to move forward, we must take a step back to understand how we got to this point.  This episode is with Ratna Pawan, Transformation Director, Risk Advisory at EY India, Fellow Women in Resilience Committee Member, Active speaker, and the QUEEN of statistics. Prepare for YOUR mind to be blown. We cover: Ratna's view to...

It's not the HOW TO, it's the easily digestible, relevant, and PRACTICAL usable tips, to help you enhance your Business Continuity capability. My question is, are YOU ready for it? I am in conversation with Andy Osborne, Director at Acumen, a BCM consultancy based in the UK, and author of his new book, 'Practical Business Continuity Management 2'. In these 19mins we talk about; 1. 🎤BCM v's Theory...

The big question we are all asking in the Resilience Industry: Is Covid -19 a BCM event?   Do we even need BCM?   What is the future?   Work from Home keeps being classed as the new norm- is it really?   Are we considering the Psychological Welfare of our people? I am super excited to have Daman Sood on the pod.  A Multi-Award Winner, Author,  international speaker, trainer, and coach, with experi...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to win an award in the resilience industry? Wondered what all the previous winners did? Want to know how? Industry awards are a great way to leverage yourself and we should all think about applying. Win or not,  and today I am with the Continuity Insurance and Risk (CIR) BCM Newcomer of the Year 2020 Winner who is going to share exactly what she did. Find out: ...

The glorification of hustle culture can have a toxic affect on our career trajectory and as women we often feel like we are not enough. Do you want to know: 🎤What does it take to be CEO ? 🎤Is it the right career path for me? 🎤How to find the right path? 🎤Choosing to challenge? 🎤Managing Boundaries? 🎤Female Allyship? YES YES YES🙌🏾 In this special 30 min episode we cover:  Women in Leadershi...

As a resilience professional, how many times have you consciously, and actively addressed the needs of your people living with disabilities in your emergency and crisis responses?   Today we are talking about the need for actively creating inclusiveness in the resilience industry.   Introducing the CEO for Disaster and Disability Consultants  from the USA, Nicolas, 'Nick' Sicora. A resilience prac...

Are you struggling to get buy in/investment/new staff for your business area?  Is the thought of selling the value of resilience a scare because people don't get it?  Want to know how you can use sales techniques to leverage your programmes  from an actual established sales influencer that WORKS?   Listen and watch on friends because I am joined with the BEST sales coach,  I know; Niraj Kapur (who...

The First Podcast and Vlog for 2021 is here and it's only apt that we kick off with what Diversity and Inclusion means for us working in the resilience industry. (Hint: it's not different)   If you landed here and want to watch us, head on over to youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODoSAGeBSCw Join me in this virtual conversation with the award winning D&I manager and expert, Lucile Kamar w...

Covid-19 has hit us hard. The resilience industry is booming right now in response. BUT, there are REAL issues coming out to play which show majority of resilience professionals are worried about not only their jobs, but the long term security of their BCM programmes and the value of BCM in their organisations.  Does this sound relatable? Were you barely involved in the pandemic response ? Not con...

Thought leadership requires a global view. IT/DR is a subject we most frequently forget so join me as I get an insight into fellow resilience professional, Mohit Kharbanda from India. We talk about how Mohit got into the industry The dynamics of IT/DR in India Challenges and what Mohit has learnt from Covid and how it's impacted IT sector. and finally, Mohit's  fave book. Listen along, it's only 1...