Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser shares a personal story. Over the past year, alongside leading Bryghtpath, he completed paramedic school and seven months of clinical shifts on a 911 ambulance in the Twin Cities metro. What he learned riding to 180 patients changed how he …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #334: Sevens Months on an AmbulanceRead More
Fusion Risk Management just published five years of market data, and buried inside it is an admission you rarely hear from a software company: the tools are not the constraint. Adoption is. The Enterprise Resilience Report draws on 4,571 intake conversations with 1,765 organizations evaluating resilience software between 2021 and 2025. It is vendor data …
The Resilience Maturity Gap Isn’t a Software ProblemRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser digs into new research on how CEOs really view their marketing leaders. The numbers show trust at a five-year high while 60% of CEOs call the function overhead. Bryan argues resilience leaders live the same contradiction, with an even harder problem: …
Your CEO probably likes you. That is not the same as believing your program pays for itself. Two recent research studies about chief marketing officers explain this gap better than anything published in our own field, and they explain why executive buy-in for business continuity keeps eroding even when the relationship with leadership feels strong. …
Executive Buy-In for Business Continuity: Being Liked Is Not the Same as Being BelievedRead More
Hour three of a ransomware response. Someone on the call says what someone always says. “Didn’t we work through this in the spring?” They did. There was a tabletop in April that ran this exact scenario. The team reached a decision on the payment question, wrote down the criteria, and named who owned the call. …
Your Crisis Decision History Is a Single Point of FailureRead More
In March 2020, days into the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Harvard Business School put Professor Dutch Leonard on its Managing Through Crisis webcast to answer the question every executive was suddenly asking: how do you lead when nobody knows what to do? I recently went back and rewatched that conversation. Six years on, it is the …
Crisis Leadership When the Playbook Fails: Dutch Leonard’s Framework, Six Years LaterRead More
Most resilience policies are either a mission statement with a logo or a forty-page plan wearing a policy’s name tag. Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath recently reviewed a global company’s business continuity policy that failed four of ISO 22301’s six requirements. Nowhere did it require anyone to exercise anything. In this episode, Bryan explains what a …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #332: What Belongs in a Resilience PolicyRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser explores the role of corporate strategy in building an effective resilience program. Most business continuity programs can recite their RTOs and plan counts but cannot articulate the company strategy. Bryan explains why that gap leaves organizations protecting yesterday’s business. Drawing …
