Episodes

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 learners. He will also help us understand some of the challenges we face in education and awareness, p...

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 and how to identify team members to ensure executive support. We'll also talk about roles and respons...

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 and its various chapters. Scott also provides some great insight on some of the key challenges facin...

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 threats to Malware to Social Engineering. Jason will provide some valuable insights on how to recogni...

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 with Master Exercise Planner (MEP) and recent DRJ Fall 2018 conference speaker, Joe Bechtold, who wi...

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.

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 Disaster Recovery Institute Exchange - Southwestern Ontario (DRIE-SWO) chapter, Tom Shebrek. Tom will provi...

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 and using some real-life examples, Lt. Mills gives us tips and insights into how we can better prepare...

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

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 terrorism expert and author, Professor Richard English from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prof. English is the author of numerous books and we'll discuss his book Terrorism: How to Respond to help BCM/DR/ERM professionals in their understanding of what terrorism is...

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 within the IT department, without communication to other departments in the organization. The BIA provides a wealth of information, but more importantly the communication between the owner of the BIA and the IT department allows for a BIA that provides the requirements for a...

This is hour 2 of the Live Broadcast from September 24/18.

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 need to have solid understanding of how to manage such situations. For this episdoe, we'll speak with known expert David Shepherd, who will help up us understand the difference between active and passive shooters and what triggers ad motivates these situations. David will a...

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 Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey (August 2017). Harvey presented unique challenges as it created unprecedented numbers of evacuees and those left homeless. Even today there are over 30,000 displaced persons in shelters and hotels throughout the state. Additionally, the medi...

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 the globe - and sometimes people aren't prepared for the possibility of there being a disaster or crisis situation. This show will focus on some key areas for people to consider during these celebration periods. We'll look at safety tips for such things as: food safety, drivi...

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 presentations represented; from thoughtful and insightful presentations to some of the detailed research oriented sessions. It was a successful conference and listen in to find out why.

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 drew a crowd of almost 250 disaster recovery professionals. Today, both conferences combined pull in more than 3,000 disaster recovery professionals from all over the world, which makes our conferences the largest in the entire industry. DRJ has an exciting array of events ava...

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 for Joint Venture International SOS and Control Risks. Paul with discuss the current global terrorism threats and the plans and communications required when escalating situations occur. He will also provide some best practices based on experience tht organizations and busines...

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 the mistakes of others or the past. We speak with business expert and author John Vespasian who will provide us insights on business continuity and how history can teach us about planning and lessons learned to improve our BCM/DR thinking and efforts. We'll talk about that by...

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 highlight of the conference. We'll review some of the sessions presented and provide a recap of some of the guests that stopped by during the LIVE broadcast and gave us some quick insights into their session presentations and/or what their company offered by way of products and serv...

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 - from other areas for the globe. In this episode we talk with Prof Duncan Koerber, author of 'Crisis Communications in Canada' and get some different perspectives and examples not usually covered by the big global news outlets. We'll talk about the role of ethics in communica...

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 Plans (BCP) for smaller incidents and interruptions increases the resilience of your organization and the Return on Investment (ROI). By invoking plan components, teams work more efficiently and gain confidence and skills when future incidents occur. During the show, Marie-Hél...