Episodes
April 18, 2019
A New Approach to Disaster Education
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 disast...
April 11, 2019
Crisis Management: How to Develop a Powerful Program
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 in...
April 4, 2019
Association of Continuity Professionals ACP
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, M...
March 21, 2019
Live From Disaster Recovery Journal Conference 2018 - Hour 5
This is hour 5 (final hour) of the live broadcast from September 24/18.
March 14, 2019
Information Security - Part 1
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 w...
March 7, 2019
Testing and Exercising: Beyond Tabletops
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, ...
March 5, 2019
Encore: Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2019 Live Broadcast
Host Alex Fullick of Preparing for the Unexpected as he broadcasts live from DJR 2019. listen in for all Innovations in Managing Risk and Resiliency live from JW MArriot Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona.
Feb. 28, 2019
Supply Chain Management Resiliency
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 upstre...
Feb. 21, 2019
Live From Disaster Recovery Journal Conference 2018 - Hour 4
This is hour 4 from the live broadcast event on September 24/18.
Feb. 14, 2019
Monitoring Social Media for Situational Awareness
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...
Jan. 31, 2019
Live From Disaster Recovery Journal Conference 2018 - Hour 3
This is hour 3 from the Live broadcast on September 24/18.
Jan. 24, 2019
Terrorism: How to Respond
Terrorism is a major topic that grabs headlines around the globe almost on a daily basis and for BCM/DR/ERM practitioners, it might be a topic we only learn about from those headlines. This week we'll talk with global terrori...
Jan. 17, 2019
The BIA and its Relevance to Disaster Recovery
In this episode we'll talk to industry expert Dennis Lenard about the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and it's relationship to the IT Disaster Recovery Plan (ITDRP). In many instances, IT recovery planning is performed solely ...
Jan. 10, 2019
Live From Disaster Recovery Journal Conference 2018 - Hour 2
This is hour 2 of the Live Broadcast from September 24/18.
Dec. 20, 2018
Active Shooter
One of the newest and most talked about subjects for BCM and DR professionals is how to plan for, and respond to, an active shooter situation. The headlines have been full of examples in recent years and BCM /DR professionals...
Dec. 13, 2018
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey - August 2017
Continuing with our speaker series from the Continuity & Resilience Today conference in Toronto (May 2018), we speak with Emergency Management subject matter expert and registered nurse, Dee Grimm who will talk about the Less...
Dec. 6, 2018
Seasonal Celebration Safety Tips
December and part of January hold many significant celebration periods and times for individuals to take some sort of holiday. Regardless of religious or spiritual beliefs, these two months have multiple celebrations around t...
Nov. 29, 2018
TIEMS: Manila, Philippines, Conference Summary
The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) held its 25th Anniversary Global Conference in Manila, Philippines, November 13-16, 2018. This episode will provide a conference summary of some of the great speakers and...
Nov. 22, 2018
Live From Disaster Recovery Journey Conference 2018
Join Host of Preparing for the Unexpected, Alex Fullick as he broadcast live from DRJ 2018 in Phoenix Arizona. Disaster Recovery Journal sponsors two annual conferences that began in September of 1989. The first conference dr...
Nov. 15, 2018
Evolving Global Threats and Corporate Resilience
Continuing with our series of speakers from the Continuity & Resilience Today conference in Toronto (May 2018), we speak with Paul Doucet who is the Regional Security Manager, Security Solutions, for the Asia Pacific region f...
Nov. 8, 2018
BCM and Lessons Learned from a Historical Perspective
As part of a well-functioning BCM/DR program, we should be learning from our mistakes and ensuring we can adapt and learn from the events of the past. For most, the assumption is we will learn from only our mistakes and not t...
Oct. 25, 2018
Disaster Recovery Journal - DRJ - Fall 2018: A Conference Summary
This episode will be a recap and summary of the recent Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) in Phoenix, Arizona from September 23 - 26/18. Preparing for the Unexpected aired LIVE on September 24th but that wasn't the only highligh...
Oct. 18, 2018
Crisis Communications in Canada
We see many Crisis Management examples every day in the headlines of major news outlets, either on the internet or in print. Quite often the examples referenced in major news outlets don't cover examples - both goo and bad - ...
Oct. 11, 2018
Be More Resilient by Using Your BCP for Smaller Incidents
We continue with our speaker series from the Continuity & Resilience Today conference (Toronto, May 2018) as we chat with award winning BCM specialist, Marie-Helene Primeau. We talk about how using your Business Continuity Pl...