Episodes

Oct. 4, 2018

Crisis Management Leaders: From Thought to Consquence

What makes a good crisis leader? How is it that they prepare and respond to situations differently? How do successful crisis leaders think and feel? It's not easy being an organization's Crisis Management Team Leader while pr...
Sept. 27, 2018

Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management Approach

Managing Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery programs can be a challenge, especially if a BC-DR practitioner doesn't have the right skills to juggle various program components and priorities. We will talk with BC-DR indus...
Sept. 24, 2018

Hour Five:Louis Seidel | AccuWeather, Lee Wells | Konexus, Regina Phelps | Emergency Management and Safety Solutions, Cheyenne Marling | Firestorm

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...
Sept. 24, 2018

Hour Four: William C. Hord | Quantivate, Brandon Tanner | Rentsys Recovery Service, Patrick Potter | RSA, Dee Daniels | VoiceAmerica

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...
Sept. 24, 2018

Hour Three: Sandeep Parande | IBM, James D. Linney | FAA, Joe Bechtold | Texas Instruments, Ramesh Warrier | eBRP

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...
Sept. 24, 2018

Hour Two:Joe Miner,Jon Seals, Jason Hines, and Kathy Rainey

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...
Sept. 24, 2018

Hour one: Dr. Heidi Hanna, Cheri Umlauf, and Eric de Vos

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...
Sept. 13, 2018

BCM Program Trends: What the Most Successful Programs are Doing!

Continuing with our speaker series from the Continuity & Resilience Today conference (Toronto, May 2018), this week's episode will focus on BCM Program Trends and what successful programs are doing right. We speak with well-k...
Sept. 6, 2018

How BCM and DR Programs Address Our Fears - Part 2

Part 2 of How BCM programs address our fears. People around the world share some common fears, regardless of their location, ethnicity or their place in history. In the1st episode of a 2 part series, we'll identify these comm...
Aug. 23, 2018

How BCM and DR Programs Address Our Fears - Part I

People around the world share some common fears, regardless of their location, ethnicity or their place in history. In the1st episode of a 2 part series, we'll identify these common fears and provide examples of how Business ...
Aug. 16, 2018

Lessons Learned: Integrating Cyber Security with IMS/ICS Systems

Cyber Security is a relatively new realm in the Business Continuity / Disaster Planning / Information Security world and often, people are clear on what it is or how should help during crises. For this show, we speak with exp...
Aug. 2, 2018

Using Social Media and Drones for Emergency Management

Communications during disasters is paramount, especially when there is the potential for the loss of human life. The need for communications and the way we communicate, along with what we communicate, has changed with the adv...
July 26, 2018

BOUNCE! People and Resiliency

We all experience failure at some point and organizations aren't spared these experiences. What sets some organizations and people apart is their ability to bounce back from adversity and move forward. We speak with renown sp...
July 19, 2018

Considerations Before You Outsource Your BCM/DR Program

Sometimes you just can't build or manage your Business Continuity Management (BCM) / Disaster Recovery (DR) program because your organization may not have the ability to develop and implement the program or the skillls to do ...
July 12, 2018

Tips for Climbing the Business Continuity Career Ladder

No matter the level of experience a Business Continuity Management, Emergency Management or Disaster Recovery professional, there are always activities that we can leverage to increase our exposure and knowledge in the indust...
July 5, 2018

Business Continuity and Supply Chain Management

A key component of any Business Continuity Management (BC) program is ensuring the mitigation of impacts created when an organization's supply chain is impacted. This week we'll talk to noted supply chain management expert an...
June 21, 2018

Continuity and Resilience Today -CRT: A Conference Summary

The Continuity & Resilience Today (CRT) conference was held May 29-31, 2018 in Toronto at the Sheraton Downton Hotel. It was the inaugural CRT conference that was originally part of the old World Conference on Disaster Manage...
June 14, 2018

Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach - Part 2

This show is Part 2 of our conversation with BC experts and authors, David Lindstedt and Marc Armour. We'll continue to discuss Adaptive Business Continuity - A New Approach and what readers, listeners and BC professionals ca...
June 7, 2018

BIA: Has the Traditional BIA Runs Its Course?

For decades BCM / DR professionals have performed the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) the same way with the same results; often not quite the results expected. John Jackson, an early visionary in BCM / DR, talks about how the ...
May 31, 2018

BCM: Assessing Partners and Vendors

No business or community exists in isolation; all have vendors or partners in some form or another and both are needed to help communities and business grow and thrive. It's for that reason we need to assess the BCM / DR capa...
May 24, 2018

The Business Continuity Institute - Canada

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) is one of the world's leading promoter Business Continuity and Resilience with chapters around the globe. This show will focus in on the BCI Canada chapter and we'll talk to the BCI Can...
May 10, 2018

Business Continuity Management: Lessons Learned

To paraphrase a well-known saying, 'We must learn from our mistakes and from the mistakes of others'. In BCM, DR and Crisis Management we talk allot about Lessons Learned and making changes but a Lesson Learned without action...
May 3, 2018

The 'C's' of Crisis Management and Communications

Sometimes communicating the various facets of Business Continuity Management (BCM) can be difficult to do to those who aren't well-versed in the industry. We use our own terminology and concepts when communicating BCM - or Di...
April 26, 2018

Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach - Part 1

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is always trying to progress itself - sometimes successfully and sometime with not so much. For BCM and Disaster Recovery (DR) to stay relevant with other industries such as Privacy, Secur...