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. Executives and their preferred vendors. 5. Capturing risks and mitigation activities. 6. Stakeholders (Project Managemen

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. Discussing the “S” (society) in ESG. 6. Employee training and development (Org leadership are missing out on this

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), 4. Regulation, guidelines, and mandates, 5. TPRM in Operational Resilience and Business Continuity Mana

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 / red light communications, 5, The recipe for crisis communications, 6. Emotions and empathy, 7. "7 to 11 w

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-based conflicts, 3. Extreme weather events, 4. Goeconomics, 5. Misinformatino and disinformation, 6. So

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 Services Impact Responses, 4. The homeowner insurance crisis, 5. Failing infrastructure, 6. Government in

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 the resilience profession. Margaret once again shares some great insights into three very current and relev

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 impacts, 7. A 'rapid response', 8. Saying sorry (meaning it and when to say it), 9. Testing & Practice, 10. Media tr

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, 9. The human-animal bond, 10. You own best teacher...and more! It's an inspiring talk and Michael shares some great in

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-efficacy, 9. Identifying stressors, 10. Emotional energy, 11. Boosting emotional energy, 12. Drawing boundaries, 13. Ignoring burnout and the

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 clients, 3. Moving beyond the usual risks, 4. A multi-disciplinary approach, 5. Risk considerations and meanin

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. Confidence & hindrances, 6. Characteristics of confident resilience, 7. Fear, 8. Social pressures, 9. Burnout, 10.