Preparing for the Unexpected
Preparing for the Unexpected is about how people, organizations and communities plan, prepare, test, communicate and respond to sudden unplanned events such as natural and manmade disasters and crises. The show is for everyone who wants an understanding of how plans are created for individuals, organizations and communities and for anyone who wants to know what they can do in their own lives to help protect themselves from unexpected events. There is a myth that disasters happen to others but in reality, they happen to everyone. It's just a matter of when and how well-prepared you are. The greater the level of awareness, communication and knowledge, the quicker one bounces back from adversity. The overall aim of Preparing for the Unexpected is to reduce the suffering, effects and impacts caused as a result of disasters and unexpected life events by increasing knowledge and awareness of Business Contingency and Disaster Planning and related activities.
Episodes
September 12, 2024 • 60 mins
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 and processes ...
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September 5, 2024 • 60 mins
Being a corporate business leader can be tough. Mishandled crises can devastate businesses, lives and livelihoods (Hemus, 2020) I talk with internationally recognized crisis leadership expert and author, Jonathan Hemus, as we talk about what good leaders need to understand, know, and react, when disasters and crises strike.
We talk about:
1. The challenging risk landscape (health, economies...)
2. Securing executive buy-In
3. Wh...
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August 29, 2024 • 60 mins
Operational Resilience is a key area of focus of many organizations. I’m joined my seasoned security strategist and specialist Steve ‘Stitch’ Hindle, as we talk about Security & Operational Resilience in terms and perspectives different from the usual run-of-the-mill chatter. During our chat we touch on:
1. Disruptive events,
2. It’s OK to fail,
3. People empowerment,
4. Driven by the top,
5. Operational Resilience (Def...
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August 22, 2024 • 60 mins
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, maintaining, ...
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August 15, 2024 • 60 mins
I'm joined by resilience industry thought leader, Jason Hoss, as we talk about Community Resilience. During our chat we touch on:
1. Micro Approach: individual, households, fire plans, social networks, local businesses, one's influence, insurance, self-risk assessments, and more,
2. Macro Approach: cities/towns, engaging stakeholders, inclusive plans, assumptions, and more.
Jason and I share many thoughts on community...
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August 8, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I with with leading resilience and risk expert, Terry Lee. During today's discussion we touch on 3 key important topics: Operational Resilience, Vendor Risk Management, and Enterprise Risk Management.
1. Operational Risk ( Defining OpR, Leadership confidence, Risk as an opportunity, Who 'owns' OpR, Where OpR resides in an organization...and more!)
2. Vendor Risk Mgmt. (The difference between supply chain mgm...
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August 1, 2024 • 60 mins
I'm joined by recognized risk management, security, resilience expert, and author, Robert Hall, as we talk about his new book 'Building Resilient Futures'.
It's a fascinating discussion where we touch on:
1. Resilience and technology,
2. People and resilience,
3. Facing adversity,
4. Societal engagement (This topic is well worth the listen),
5. Engaging communities,
6. Creating a 'spirit',
7. Focusing on consequences ...
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July 25, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with renown Crisis Management, Business Continuity, and Resilience expert, Regina Phelps. We talk about the recent Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage that has - and continues to - cripple many organizations and institutions.
During our chat we talk about:
1. The outage,
2. Timelines,
3. Who is to blame?
4. The impacts,
5. When is enough, enough?
6. Testing and complacency,
7. What do you do when y...
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July 18, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with experienced Operational Resilience and Business Continuity professional, Yusuf Ukaye, as we talk on the topic of Starting a BCM Program from Scratch.
During our discussion we talk about:
1. Asking the right questions (What are we protecting? and more),
2. Impacts of not doing what you do,
3. Feeling about risk,
4. Good governance,
5. RACI, 6. It's NOT a project,
7. Everyday BC usage,
8. Bui...
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July 11, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with Entrepreneur, Leader, Coach, Consultant, and Practitioner and author of 'The Anti-Fragility Edge', Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir). We talk about agility, resilience, and anti-fragility, and how understanding these concepts - and how they relate to each other - will help transform you and your teams.
During our chat we touch on:
1. Defining Agility, Resilience, and Anti-Fragility,
2. The 'sacred triad', ...
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July 4, 2024 • 60 mins
Obtaining and maintaining executive support for you Resilience or Business Continuity Management (BCM)program can be tricky; something many people struggle with. In fact, it's one of the key challenges faced in the industry. I'm joined by John Luizzi, a long time BCM and resilience, Crisis Mgmt., Emergency Mgmt., and industry leader, to talk about what we can do to obtain executive support, especially if that support seems to be a...
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June 27, 2024 • 60 mins
Building resilient small businesses is an often overlooked segment of the economy, especially considering small businesses make up to 97% of businesses around the globe.
I speak with the founder of Resilient Ready Renae Hanvin who talk about small businesses and resilience.
Renae talks about:
1. Defining small businesses,
2. Defining resiliency vs resilient,
3. Building business networks,
4. Communities and the impacts of ...
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June 20, 2024 • 60 mins
There is allot of talk about defining personal resilience and what it is and what it's not, and it's not often someone shares their own story of resilience. I'm joined by David Gill who does just that.
Throughout his journey of resilience he has experienced rewarding moments and massive setbacks (some quite scary), but his enthusiasm and dedication to 'service above' self' will keep you listening to some incredible stories.
Don...
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June 13, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with noted resiliency, trauma informed professional and leadership expert, Treena Reilkoff. We discuss how to turn trauma into a resilient asset for to better yourself in you work life and home life...and potentially influence others.
During our chat we touch on:
1. Defining Resilience (this is a bit different than what you might be used to),
2. Growth through risk taking,
3. Developing situational awa...
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June 6, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with co-founder of Factal and co-host of 'Global Security Briefing', Cory Bergman. We take a look at the recently published Risk Intelligence Forecast 2024 report and talk about some of the key items the report identifies that all organizations needs to be aware of.
During our chat we discuss:
1. How the report came about,
2. The biggest surprises and making sense of the 'noise',
3. Artificial Intellig...
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May 30, 2024 • 60 mins
Handling communications during a crisis can be a challenge for most organizations. I'm joined by internationally recognized risk and crisis communications professional, Sheena Thomson.
During our talk we touch on:
1. Identifying and defining a stakeholder,
2. Stakeholder management,
3. Preparing communications,
4. Using legal in communication,
5. Winning (or loosing) the social media war,
6. The spokesperson,
7. Do's and don'...
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May 23, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I talk with the National Director of Business Continuity for Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, John Luizzi. We talk about crisis leadership during a ransomware event.
During our chat John talks about:
1. Defining Ransomware,
2. How Ransomware is different from other cyber events,
3. Detecting and event,
4. Patch Management,
5. Manual processes
6. Employee education
7. How to escalating the ransomware i...
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May 16, 2024 • 60 mins
Join me as I speak with internationally recognized operational security and technology executive, Steve Hindle, as we talk about data...lots and lots of data.
We talk about how organizations need to protect their data because many aren't quite doing it correctly.
During our chat Steve touches on:
1. Defining data,
2. Classifying data,
3. Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA),
4. Where does your data rea...
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May 9, 2024 • 60 mins
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 decisions,
4. The 'Netflix Dile...
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May 2, 2024 • 60 mins
There is allot of talk about defining personal resilience and what it is and what it's not, and it's not often someone shares their own story of resilience. I'm joined by David Gill who does just that.
Throughout his journey of resilience he has experienced rewarding moments and massive setbacks (some quite scary), but his enthusiasm and dedication to 'service above' self' will keep you listening to some incredible stories.
D...
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